Skating on Ice is a very nice sport, but there are things you need. Balance is an essencial part for skating, because every movement needs balance. There is a Movement named Axel that can be very difficult, becuase it is a jump with 1, 2 or 3 turns in the air.
Almost every skating teacher is russian, becuase skating is like their native culture. My group class teacher is a Russian, her name is Alla and she is an exellent skater. First, she tell us to do the warm up to start doing the movements in the class.
I like Ice Skating, because it is an exellent exercise for your body and you can learn a lot of things doing it. I have learned that fear is the only thing that can stop you in everything you do. If you do not control your head of what do you think you can not do enything in skating.
Here it is a video you can what, that can help you learn more things about what is skating and how does it works.
I leave you a Skating video that shows a lot of the theme.