By Natalia Santamaria, ICP Examiner (Spain)

This past weekend, I had the privilege of traveling to Segovia to deliver a Level 1 certification course for the Inline Certification Program (ICP). The program ran from Friday afternoon through Sunday afternoon and brought together seven motivated candidates from Burgos and Segovia, all taking their first formal step toward becoming certified inline skating instructors.

It was an intense and demanding weekend in the best possible sense. Long hours on skates were combined with theoretical sessions, practical teaching exercises, and continuous reflection. Participants were challenged not only to perform skills, but also to analyze them, explain them, and teach them—learning to see skating simultaneously from the perspective of the skater and the instructor.

What stands out most after weekends like this is the transformation. Candidates arrive as competent or passionate skaters, often focused on their own performance. They leave with a compl...