What is ISI?
The Ice Skating Institute is an international industry trade association encompassing all aspects of the ice skating industry.
ISI was founded in 1959 as a nonprofit organization for owners, operators, and developers of ice skating facilities. For over 45 years, ISI has become the industry trade association for progressive ice skating facilities, managers, coaching professionals, suppliers and individual skaters.
ISI:
- Encourages participation in ice skating as a recreational sport. Provides information for the development and construction of ice arenas. Produces trade and educational publications and literature. Holds an annual educational conference and trade show for arenas managers, skating directors, instructors, and skating industry manufacturers, suppliers and retailers. Provides ice skating programs for skaters of all ages and abilities. Hosts four recreational skating competitions annually.
- Organizes consumer shows in conjunction with its recreational skating events.
Why Join ISI?
ISI is the leading ice industry trade association with over 600 facility members, 3,500 instructor members, close to 40,000 individual skater members, 15,000 hockey players and 150 plus builder/supplier/retail members.
Whether you're a beginning skater; skate for fun; teach figure skating or hockey; manage a skating school or skating club; or own or operate an ice arenas, the Ice Skating Institute is your chief advocate and number one source of leadership, education, and services.
For more information about membership, please see one of the categories below:
- Individual (skater/hockey)
- Professional (instructor/coach/skating director)
- Administrative (arenas, skating schools, clubs, retail vendors)
- Related Service (builder/supplier/vendor)
