SkateSchool – Street Skating
Where? Albert Memorial, Hyde Park
When? Week 1 – Saturday 3rd March 2.00pm – 4.00pm
How much? £80
The adventure, exhilaration and fitness to be gained from joining one of London’s mass street skates or using skating for your transportation is unbeatable. Skatefresh have specialised in training and preparing skaters for the very real challenges awaiting us on streets and pavements. This 3 week course takes you through all the necessary skills which safe and responsible street skating should contain.
This course involves one session in the park (learning to skate curbs, obstacles and rough surfaces) and then takes you out onto the streets and pavements of London to apply those skills in the real urban environment. We firmly believe that skaters who attempt mass street skates before they have acquired the necessary skill level, endanger not only themselves but also all other participants as well.
The course will prepare you for participation on the Sunday Stroll street, or if you have already skated this, then you will find it a much more fun, (safe) ad controlled experience. You will also have the confidence to skate solo in the city, able to safely navigate pavements, streets and everything in between.
Course prerequisites; You must be able to stop using your heel brake on a slope. If you do not have a heel brake then you must be able to stop using any other stop (in a narrow space) on a slope. You must be able to do the scissor position (one skate in front of the other) at any speed you can skate at and you need to be able to do parallel turns in both directions to 90 degrees.
Quads skaters: If you are on quads skates and want to do this course it is essential that you have first done our Improvers 2 or that you have had a private lesson and your ability checked. Skating on streets and pavements on quads skates is much more technically challenging than for inline skaters. A quads skater’s ability would need to be better than an inline skater.
Knee, wrist guards and helmets compulsory.
To book click on the course name and follow the booking instructions:
Week 1 - Saturday 3rd March, 2.00pm – 4.00pm Albert Memorial
Week 2 - Saturday 17th March, 2.00pm – 4.00pm Boat House
Week 3 - Saturday 31st March, 12.00pm – 2.00pm Albert Memorial
Check out this video taken on the Wednesday night skate (14th April 2010) by Min Zaw, one of Skatefresh’s clients. Min Zaw started skating in June 2009 and has progressed to being the skater dressed in black going backwards on the street skate. Asha from Skatefresh is the lady in pink, enjoying an evening off, doing what she loves best.
“I did the street skating course and found it very useful for increasing my confidence and making me realise that a street skate was within my capabilities. If I hadn’t done this workshop the Sunday Stroll would have been alot scarier and no fun at all. I went on the Sunday Stroll and loved it. What a buzz! NowI’m focussing my time on solo street skating and commuting to work regularly. This would have been impossible without the course as it taught me everything involved”. Sandra (40)
Street skating in London is very challenging, so why not join us in Paris 11-13 May 2012.
