Flakey Forum, down again!
31/05/2008 by tim.
Well that was a quick response! Post and … er whoops dropped of the Internet! (Who could have guessed?)
And sure enough, straight after my post (this one) the good old flakey forum falls over again!
For those that are interested - Sk8school’s offer to help at the Event has not yet been answered - or at least the question is still outstanding, however I’ve now had my account suspended, for “promoting businesses” on the Forum!
Quite unbelievable! Still if a response does surface to our perfectly genuine offer, I’ll be sure it’s published promptly.
Nick, if you are having trouble posting your answer on your Forum, please feel free to leave a comment here. We’re all still be very interested in your reply.
Apparently (so I’m told) “Those wishing to participate at any of our events can contact us via the appropriate channels”
Um what does a Forum do then exactly? If that’s not a “proper channel” what is?
In the meantime, everyone reading this, please feel free to vote on whether you think the offer (here) was a business promotion or an offer of help!
Just pick the option you think and press return! Vote Cast!
Sk8school at Eastbourne Extreme 2008?
31/05/2008 by tim.
I’ve just written this post on the ESA forum to see if Nick wants Sk8school to run it’s usual quality Eastbourne Skate Lessons and a whole fun packed event program for him.
Here’s a copy of the open letter, as the ESA forum is pretty flaky and tends to loose posts!
Nick,
Just seen the latest “Newsletter” from the ESA forum, here’s a link to a copy of a Sk8school one : http://www.sk8school.co.uk/newspageapril.html
There’s plenty more here – if you are interested: http://www.sk8school.co.uk/skatenews.html
I think we’re right to be quite pleased with it as it now gets delivered to 2500 people a month (not including web views like the link above. The web version has the “juicy bits” taken out, as only subscribers get all the best bits!).
Anyway, I noticed from your mail that the Extreme Fest will be using the Turning Circle this year, though there is no detail as to what for…
Plenty of people are assuming Sk8school are going to be doing the lessons there as part of Extreme and have been asking me about it, though curiously I have not heard from you about this yet.
So, I thought I’d post the question here.
Does this mean you’ll want Sk8school to handle the lessons there as I offered last year?
As you know Sk8school are not happy with teaching in the Basket Ball area, most especially with loud PA and music there, making it almost impossible to instruct safely and to our usual quality standard.
If you do want us to assist, we are willing and we can assist quite a lot!
We can probably manage a full program (for free of course) from about 11-3 each day, including demo’s, kids club, exercise classes, clinics etc. (We do our free beginners lessons for the shops there at 11am every Sunday anyway, so it’s no big deal). It would also be an excellent opportunity to demonstrate content of our new Coaching and Improver’s Classes and our half day intensive “Mastering” courses.
The beauty of which of course is that we can handle all of it (including skate hire) for you, without you needing to worry about a thing, or take precious resource from other event areas. Which (given the ESA’s current “responsible adult” resource shortage) might be just the ticket to making Extreme a bit more manageable for you. Not only that but then the whole event will be more professional and all inclusive, with less headache for you as the “organiser” - and you get to offer more for the event! (How could you loose?)
Anyway give me a shout, as you know all 5 of the Eastbourne Sk8school Instructors are CRB checked, insured and of course we are the only currently paid up and ICP registered instructors in Eastbourne. Some are first aid trained too as a bonus. So you can be assured of the quality of the lessons and it means you’ll be able to use Sk8school’s name to add a little professionalism to the attractions at the event.
So just to recap – we can do a full program daily, including skate hire. We’re already insured, qualified and geared up. You’d need to provide no actual resource and you’ll have nothing to worry about throughout. Which means you get a whole area dealt with, without having to lift a finger. But we do need to be at the Turning circle – well away from overpowering PA/music etc.
The only way we can continue to provide Eastbourne’s highest quality skate instruction at the event is if we’re in an environment which we can control – otherwise we feel it would not be safe for anyone in our care.
We are very interested to hear your response.
Through this Forum will be fine.
Tim Wheals.
http://www.sk8school.co.uk
So who know’s maybe Extreme this year will be benefiting from Eastbournes best skate lessons and it’ll be one less headache for the ESA crew, who seem to be “leaking” quality membership of late.