Archive for the Lessons and Courses Category
Sk8school Turning Circle Skate Lessons and Kids Club Rota
17/03/2008 by tim.
Skate Instructors Teaching at the Turning Circle ROTA for April (Edited following comments from Laura and Rebecca)
April 6th - Marie, Tim
April 13th - Laura, Tim
April 20th - Rebecca, Marie
April 27th - Laura, Rebecca
Instructors - Use comments to prove you’ve seen this and can make the dates! If you can’t do a date - put in the ones you can do instead, so we can switch skate instructors round.
Half day intensive skate courses
14/03/2008 by tim.
We’re running the last indoor half day intensive skate courses this Sunday at Shine Water.
3 courses in all :-
Beginners introduction skating lesson - covering all the beginner skills from standing up and stopping to going fast!
Mastering Turns - covering every form of turn, starting with the A-Frame and ending with forwards crossover and slalom turn and finally:
The Experts course - Flow grace and Tricks the ultimate Eastbourne Skating course. A skate lesson to be scared of!
Advanced Street Skating Course - London
12/03/2008 by matt.
As promised we've got David running an advanced street skating course on Saturday 29th March, from 10:00 to 11:30. I've created a Facebook event for it (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=9563370325) where you can read what’s going to be happening.
Unfortunately we have to limit the number of places to 6 people, at least for this first one, until we work out how many people and how long it needs to be exactly. Best to contact Mark through the skateinstructor.com Facebook group (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5838043700) to get yourself booked onto this course (DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE as I’m going to be offline from now until the end of next week and you’ll miss out!).
If you’re in any doubt on whether you can make it I suggest letting other people come: the last thing we want is for people to miss out on the opportunity. We will be running this course again and, if it’s really popular, it could be run again on the same day!
There’s more coming from David, including an introduction to slides course where he’ll probably be covering the soul slide (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK_KaM1Cpkw), mistral (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wouZQr8hvWw) and parallel slide (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEC3miGyElM), so watch this space. Also, if you’re really really nice to him, and already doing slides, we might be able to twist his arm into running a magic slide (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIE2xsVJaCI) course for you too!
Anyway, get back to us soon because this’ll be advertised on serpentineroad.com and it’s likely to get busy!
Laura’s Street Intro skate lesson
10/03/2008 by laura.
Laura is offering a street skating introduction lesson in Eastbourne in April for all ages and abilities - interested? Phone 07731555252
Skate Lessons Forced indoors in Eastbourne and Brighton
10/03/2008 by marie.
The appalling weather over the last few days means all outdoor Skate lessons in Brighton and Eastbourne are postponed or moved indoors. Please contact your instructor for details.
If you’re skate lesson is not till the weekend then there’s a good chance this weather will blow over and we can get back to normal! See you on Brighton seafront for more skating lessons soon!
National Skate Patrol Training - NSP
09/03/2008 by tim.
I’ve been Eastbourne’s NSP (National Skate Patrol) Trainer for 5 years now and have trained NSP as far afield as Goodwood, London and Brighton. The Uckfield Roller Disco have now approached me about training, to make their Roller Disco safer. So some time in late March I expect to be re-visiting the Uckfield Leisure centre and setting up a half day training session, to bring all their skate guards up to standard.
The difference between NSP training and “proper” skate instruction/ skate lessons
It’s not particularly hard to pick up the NSP skills as there is only a very limited set of demonstrations the NSP level, skate guard is qualified to show. The NSP don’t really teach or instruct, they just get to show people the basic “stand up, get going and stop” moves. For more detailed explanations, or corrective measures (when people get it wrong) you need a Skate Instructor. Simply put the difference between Volunteer NSP and professional Skate Instructors is that the NSP can only show and demonstrate 3 basic techniques, a full instructor, can demonstrate, correct, adjust, tune and teach a multitude of skate techniques.
If anyone needs NSP training, so you are qualified to teach to NSP level, I’m more than happy to help!
Adults Inline Skate Lessons and RollerBlade Lessons in Brighton
08/03/2008 by marie.
I’m often in Brighton for weekends these days. If anyone would like Skate lessons, private groups, individual skate lessons or just wants some skate training in Brighton, i’m your girl! Contact me here to arrange learning to skate in Brighton at the weekends.
I specialise in families, small groups, individual nervous adults and promise to get you confident in one lesson!
Kids Club Favourite skate game at Sk8school
08/03/2008 by laura.
Laura Thompson is Eastbourne Inline Skate School’s (Sk8school) specialist Children Skate Instructor and runs the Eastbourne Sk8school Kids Club - where children learn to skate through skating fun and games.
Sk8school focus’s on Safety Fun and Learning at Kids Club - with the most popular skate game being the old favourite - limbo dancing! We’ve been using Skate Limbo dancing on skates for years - ever since we introduced it at Eastbourne Skate2000.
Laura can teach children to skate in groups or private lessons - or at the Kids Club! We’re pleased to announce Kids Club will run every week from April 6th 2008 at the Turning Circle.
Eastbourne nervous adult beginner skaters specialist instructor!
08/03/2008 by marie.
If you are an adult of nervous disposition and thinking about taking up inline skating lessons, you are in luck. Eastbourne Inline Skate School has a skate instructor sympathetic to your needs. Marie Thompson specialises in teaching nervous adult beginner skaters, from how to stand up, all the way to confident unsupported skating!
Marie has huge experience with nervous adult skaters and knows exactly how to break down all those complex moves into easily understandable and achievable bits! Marie can transform the nervous Nerice into a Go gettem Gertie in a single hour!
So if you think you don’t have the confidence to give skating a go, get a skate lesson from Eastbournes specialist skate instructor for nervous and less confident beginner skaters! To book click here!
More Private Skate Lessons in Eastbourne!
08/03/2008 by tim.
Loads of customers booking at the moment! What is it with everyone? All our instructors seem to be booked up with Eastbourne skate lessons at the moment!
Many skaters like the 1 2 1 attention or want their family catered for privately. Because we can also get hall hire, we can even run these private skate lessons and micro group skate lessons indoors! If you need special attention why not get in touch through the blog, or read this… Contact Sk8school (Eastbourne Inline Skate School instructors for skate lessons)