Ice Castle International Training Center was founded by former Ice Folies star Carol Probst and her husband Walter. Together they created the only true complete training center in the world. The Ice Castle facility is nestled in the forest at an altitude of 5,400 feet in Southern California's San Bernardino Mountains, less that two hours east of Los Angeles. This is only 80 miles from Los Angeles, but it's an entirley different world with fresh air, blue skies and a full cycle of four seasons.

Almost from conception, Ice Castle Internatonal Training Center has attracted the world's finest skaters and coaches since the dedicated figure skating rink was opened in 1988. Olympic Champion Robin Cousins from England began a long line of notables in the skating world to teach and/or train here.

Coaches such as Frank Carroll, Irina Rodrina, Peter Oppegard, and other luminaries made Ice Castle home to skaters such as Lu Chen, Nicole Bobek, Surya Bonaly, Bourne and Kraatz, and Klimova and Ponomarenko. Ice Castle has become a host to many other Olympic, World and International skaters who come to draw on the remarkable talent concentrate at this facility. Michelle Kwan trained here for over 10 years with her coach, Rafael Arutyunyan. Three time World Pair Champions and 2010 Olympic Gold Medalist, Shen and Zhao, as well as 2008 World Champions Jeffrey Buttle and Mao Asada have made Ice Castle their home.