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British Ice Skating: Skills
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British Ice Skating’s skating-skills ladder is the National Skills Tests, Skills 1 to 8, revised on 01/10/2026. They are the guide’s home ladder: every exercise in them has its own page, and every element page lists the British tests and exercises that call for it.
Below Skills 1 sits Skate UK Fundamentals, British Ice Skating’s learn-to-skate programme. It is published as a paid booklet and not on a public page, so the guide does not lay it out; the basics cover the same ground from other countries’ public documents. Beside the Skills tests run the National free skating tests, Beginner and National 1 to 8, which have their own page, and the two ladders interlock: each National level needs the Skills test of the same number.
Skills tests
Each test has its own page in this guide, with its exercises and the elements they call for.