The joke writes itself — ice skating at the beach — and the Tennessee family in film two asks it out loud before answering it on the ice. Daytona Ice Arena, in South Daytona/Port Orange, is a real rink: public skate sessions, figure skating, youth hockey, and a development culture serious enough to surprise people.
The serious side
The arena's own film carries the strongest evidence: U.S. National Under-17 defenseman Ethan Straky talking about the rink where he first touched the ice — the high-level players who come down every summer, and coaches who have sent kids toward the NHL. Figure skaters Bruno and Fae's practice-day film shows the working session culture: ice-dance transitions, pattern entrances, partner spins, coaches on the ice, and a busy public session around them.
The visitor side
For a beach-week family, the arena is the weather-proof afternoon: public sessions, skate rental, and the pure novelty of lacing up minutes from the Atlantic — the family film's kids racing their dad around the rink is the visit in miniature. Morning training footage shows the rink's quiet early ice; the party-room tour shows the birthday-and-events side of the building.
Know before you go
Sessions split by type — public skate, figure practice, stick-and-puck (whose etiquette film closes the page, unwritten rules demonstrated) — so check which session you are walking into. In a town of beach content, this is the page for the day the weather turns.
Sources: the 8 videos on this page, filmed at Daytona Ice Arena between 2020 and 2024.