Come to the Skater’s Paradise!

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Join Canadian coach and author of Speed on Skates Barry Publow on the beautiful Mediterranean island of Mallorca, Spain for 7 days of skating, training, instruction, and fun in the sun! These camps have a truly international flavor with skaters from countries like Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Czech Republic, Spain, Austria, Canada, the US, and more.

Most skater’s have to carefully dedicate their vacation time as
either skate-related, or holiday.
The Mallorca SpeedCamp is both!!!

General Camp Details
2007
Skate sessions will range from fun and social ‘tours’ to challenging practice sessions that build strength and endurance. Technical instruction and pack skating skills will be gauged for those with pre-existing skill and experience. Skaters should be fit, and capable of skating for an hour or more. A typical day consists of a 90 minute technical session and a 90 minute group skate/workout. One session in the morning (9-11 am) and one inf the afternoon (4-6 pm). The time in between is yours to relax on the beach or by the pool, shop, and explore the island.
The week presents a mix of skate tours, formal practices, technical instruction, video analysis, and classroom sessions that focus on topics such as technique, training, annual planning, and equipment.

Your Week Includes…

• Accommodation (apartment-style hotel) at the Ivory Playa.
• Buffet-style Breakfast and dinner daily.
• Daily skate sessions - fun and social skate tours of various distance.
• Daily Technical sessions - Both on-skate and dryland training sessions.
• Evening classroom sessions - Seminars to help you understand the science behind various training methods.
• Video Analysis - three weekly sessions to review individual video footage
• Camp participants will also receive a limited edition SpeedCamp DVD.

Skating in Mallorca

Each day we will lead skate sessions of varying distances. Some of these skates will be recreational/pleasure tours, while others will be more heavily focused on training, technique, and instruction. Daily distance will range anywhere from 20 – 60 km. Located in the North East part of the island, our home base will be the seaside resort town of Port d’Alcudia.

With 10 km of sandy beaches, historic ‘old town’, and an array of restaurants, shops, and pubs, there is no shortage of interesting activities or venues!

Getting There

Numerous airlines offer flights to Mallorca. If you are traveling from within Europe, you may be fortunate enough to find a direct flight. Take the time to look around, because you can often find very good deals, especially if you book early.
When researching and booking your flight you will want to fly into the capital city of Palma. The airport code for Palma is PMI.
Once you arrive in Palma you will need to make the 60 km trip to the hotel in Port d’Alcudia. There are several transportation options. The simplest way to get there is by taxi. The cost is about 60 euros. The other option is to take a city bus, but to do this you have to take a bus to the central bus station, then a bus to port d’alcudia, and then another bus or taxi to the hotel. For this reason, and and when travelling with luggage, I highly recommend you take a taxi. All you need to do is give the drive this information:
Hotel Ivory Playa
Ctra. Port d’Alcúdia - Artà, N° 113
07408 Alcúdia
Tel.: (+34) 971 890 142

Accommodation

Our host resort for the 3rd consecutive year is the Aparthotel Ivory Playa in Port d´Alcudia. This is a well-equipped modern hotel ideally situated on the main coast road from Alcudia to Arta. There are 152 apartments and 16 studios. Part of the beautiful thing about this hotel is we can skate right from the front door!

The hotel is only 50 m away from the fine sandy beach of Alcúdia.
All apartments have a comfortable living room with kitchenette, 2 hot plates, fridge and two sofa beds and a separate sleeping room. There is a complete bath with bathtub and shower. Studios are the same without the separate sleeping room.

Hotel Features

• Rooms have A/C, telephone, Satellite TV, microwave, toaster and safety box to rent.
• Dining room serves a variety of local and international cuisine in buffet style (breakfast/dinner),
• 24 hour reception area with TV room, bar, lounge, boutique, hair dresser, rent-a-car, private doctor service, hospital 1 mile away.
• Garden area with pool, 4 tennis courts
• Use of washer/dryer. Massage service available by appt., high quality road bikes available for rent.
Hotel Website: www.hotelivory.com

Cost

One Week - May 5-12
Up until February 15, 2007 - SAVE $50.00
2 Room Apartment with half board (2 person occupancy/per person) $749.00 USD
1 Room Studio with half board (1 person occupancy) $849.00 USD
2 Room Apartment with half board (2 person occupancy/per person) $799.00 USD
1 Room Studio with half board (1 person occupancy) $849.00 USD

Contact Details

Barry Publow
Breakaway Sports Group

www.breakawayskate.com
www.barryp@breakawayskate.com

Linda Harrison, London SpeedSkater and SkatesCool chum says,

Linda’s 2006 Mallorca Review:
Can you believe it?!! This has to be my perfect holiday! Doing what I love most, in a fabulous location. Exploring and being taught to go faster by a world class skater.

A little apprehensive of my level at first, I was a SpeedCamp virgin. Other participants were well initiated in the world of racing on skates. I was relieved though to find that skaters were at varying levels.

The skating in Mallorca in 2006 was unbeatable. Smooth tarmac and quiet roads. We went on some lovely skates - mainly through fields and open grassland, sometimes coming out by the sea.

Residence was in the friendly Ivory Playa in Porte d’Alcudia which is right on the beach and has a bar and pool to chill out by too. This is important if you’ve been taking your skating seriously. But how serious you are is up to you. I deliberately tested myself by trying to keep up with some of the faster guys (phew).

The itinerary was mostly drills and instruction in speed technique in the mornings. If you’d not done much speed work before, then recovery, D-shapes, pulling, pushing, double pushing, gliding, set down, falling…..the wealth of jargon and schools of thought attached to ‘Technique’ becomes your own language very quickly. Barry who is an expert in sports science and has a way of explaining the bio mechanics of it all in a digestible format according to your level.

The afternoons we’d go off on a leisure skate or do some filming for video analysis later on. Watching ourselves in a video review proved an extremely useful tool for learning. Barry encouraged us to pick out and analyse aspects of both our own and each others skating so that we become more aware of how we skate and what we can improve.

Since SpeedCamp Mallorca (link), I have vastly improved my speed. This is not fitness related but due to learning the how to get the most out of my stride. I am constantly aware of what my body is doing when I skate (and I also watch others closely to see what they can improve on too).

A month later I pulled off my very best inline marathon time and held my teams’ best average lap times at the Le Mans 24 hours race (link).

Many people have returned year on year as this kind of lifestyle holiday can be highly addictive.