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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It not just falling on the ice though, is it? Its falling on the ice amongst people wearing blades on the bottom of their skates.

Face + skate = mess[/quote]

I am at an ice rink twice a week with my daughter, for a minimum of two hours each time if not longer. We've been going for eight years. In all that time I've seen a couple of injuries to fingers, but nobody has ever gotten a blade to the face. My own child basically tripped forward throwing a trick and belly flopped onto the ice, and although she scared me by staying down for more seconds I thought was reasonable, her face was totally fine and she only got bruises on her hips and ribs, and nobody ran over her.

Generally when little kids who are non-skaters fall, they fall onto their knees or onto their butts. [/quote]

We've been to the ice rink more than a few times ourselves and generally the less experienced people skate to the outside of the rink while the more experienced people skate to the inside.  Some of the folks are skating around the rink pretty fast and not all of them have excellent control.  If one of them bumped a kinder that child would go flying.  And that is why you rarely see a young, inexperienced child out on the ice trying to navigate a busy rink alone.

Often for bday parties at the rink the party package will include a group lesson for the party goers - an employee actually gets out on the ice with them and teaches them to skate as a group.  You have to pay extra for that.  Otherwise, parents stay with their child and skate with their child - usually.[/quote]

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