Last winter Mr Kissel put close to 1600 through his taster programme at Ice Inline and he is on track to do a similar number this year.
Last Thursday, he was joined by middle and senior school pupils from Goldfields School in Cromwell.
Mr Kissel said he enjoyed working with young people, appreciating their enthusiasm and willingness to have a go at a sport most participants come to "later in life".
The fun ramped up once the basics had been taught and the pupils were given the chance to play some games, with a healthy rivalry often appearing between the boys and the girls, he said.
Classmates were split into teams competing to have the most stones in the target circle or hit a plastic cup on the ice at the end of the game.
Eight-year-old Kianm Nerurkar said the stones were "really heavy", but it was "fun when we scored lots of points when we got the stone in the circle or hit the cup".
For ten-year-old Nabiha Tahsin, the trip to Ice Inline was her first experience of being on the ice, and of giving curling a go.
She said she had no idea of what to expect, admitting to thinking people were talking about "crawling" upon being introduced to the sport.
Her best part of the day was "beating the other team," she said.
"You’ve got to push hard to get the stone to go.
"The fun thing is, when you hit the cup, it feels good."
The indoor game played at Ice Inline was known as "hack curling", with the ice formed from the freezing of droplets of water, Mr Kissel said.
He compared the "pebbled" nature of the ice to "ball bearings" reducing surface friction so the stones could travel further.
