World Skate Academy puts coaches and officials at center of development
World Skate Academy is turning coach and official education into a performance tool, with online courses, certification paths and seminars already reaching multiple disciplines.
Scootering Judging Course 2026 and Rink Hockey New Rules 2026 are already listed on World Skate Academy’s online platform in Spanish and English. World Skate created the project to upgrade its national governing bodies’ education and development programs, and that puts coaches, judges, technical officials and federation staff inside the performance conversation instead of off to the side. For a sport run across artistic skating, speed, rink hockey, scootering and skateboarding, that is infrastructure.
Why the academy matters
World Skate is the IOC-recognized governing body for all sports performed on skating wheels, with headquarters at Av. De Rhodanie 54, 1007 Lausanne, Switzerland. That scope makes education harder, not easier: the rulebook, the judging standards and the coaching needs are different from one discipline to the next, but the federation still has to keep them aligned. The academy is the mechanism World Skate is using to do that work at scale.
Coaching is a critical driver of individual, team and system-wide progression across all levels of skateboarding. A better coach changes line selection, trick progression, event preparation and recovery from mistakes; a better official changes how consistently difficulty and execution are rewarded; a better federation staffer changes how smoothly a program is built from the bottom up.
A platform, not just a slogan
The platform runs through Thinkific, and the course list shows how broad the project has become. The same standards can travel across national programs without getting trapped in one language or one federation culture.
World Skate’s skateboarding education work shows the same pattern. World Skate launched an early e-learning pathway for national judges called The Fundamentals of Skateboard Judging, a five-episode course designed to feed into the World Skate International Judging Certification Program. World Skate also maintains a video page titled Understanding Skateboard Judging. Judging education is being treated as an ongoing process rather than a single certification event.
The rollout has already crossed disciplines
The academy’s reach is not limited to skateboarding. Its artistic skating program began with a 2019 international seminar in Orlando, USA, and later included a 2023 wrap-up of high-level formation. In 2024, World Skate held an artistic seminar and camp in Venice, Italy, extending the same education push into another discipline with a different technical language and different competitive demands.
Speed skating has been part of the same education architecture. World Skate Academy included an inline speed skating coaches Level 1 course that ran online from February 6 to March 14, 2021, along with a judges update seminar for inline speed skating. The academy was already being used to train coaches and officials in a formal online setting years ago.
A Thailand seminar brought the academy into a live event format. World Skate Academy held a double-legged judging and coaching seminar there, and more than 50 skaters, coaches and judges attended. The timing lined up with the Hatyai Extreme Festival.
What the 2025 and 2026 bulletins show
Recent artistic skating bulletins for 2025 and 2026 show that the academy is still expanding its formal education structure. Those bulletins include online courses for coaches and judges, and they spell out the mechanics that make the system usable: certification, assessments, fees and registration procedures. They tell national federations exactly how to plug into a common standard.
Education is part of competitive integrity. Coaches need updated technical knowledge so they can build athletes who are ready for changing judging demands. Officials need reliable rule education so outcomes are consistent across borders. Event organizers need shared procedures so competitions run cleanly. Federation leaders need a structure that can be scaled without losing standards.
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