How to Build a PVC Skating Aid

By Joe Proulx
Published on June 21, 2018
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If you take your time, this should take a half hour to build.
If you take your time, this should take a half hour to build.
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“Backyard Ice Rink” by Joe Proulx provides simple, easy-to-follow instructions for building a skating rink in your own backyard.
“Backyard Ice Rink” by Joe Proulx provides simple, easy-to-follow instructions for building a skating rink in your own backyard.

Backyard Ice Rink(Countryman Press, 2015) by Joe Proulx guides you through every step of building your own backyard ice skating rink. From the simplest wooden frame to elaborate tall-board rinks, from measuring the slope in your yard to constructing your frame using parts found at your local hardware store, Proulx makes the project easy to tackle. This project will help new skaters gain confidence on the ice.

For all the joys associated with teaching a kid to skate — the shrieks of happiness, the “I’m doing it” look — there are certain pains as well. Namely the aches in your back and knees after spending two hours bending at the waist to hold onto tiny hands as they wobble around on miniature Bauers. So instead of volunteering your vertebrae to bear the brunt of Slugger’s wobbly weight, why not drop $11 and fifteen minutes of your time and build a PVC skating aid? Bonus — your hands are free to hold the video camera.

Materials

  • About 20′ of 1-1/4″ PVC
  • Six 90-degree elbows 
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