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Happy Birthday Jessica! - Enjoy the Skate Party!
30/07/2008 by tim.
Kids club is great, and some parents like to tailor it to their requirements and book a Skate Birthday Party!
Sk8school have been running Skate Parties for Heely’s Roller Skaters and Inline Skaters for Years in Eastbourne.
It combines the elements of Roller Disco, Kids Club and Lessons in one custom package - and of course we have all the Skate Hire too!
If you’d like to have something different for your kids birthday or other occasion, why not book a skate party?
Sk8 M8’s roll over to Bexhill seafront
28/07/2008 by tim.
Well it was hot, it was Monday and a few of the Sk8 M8’s decided to do something different!
We met up in dribs and drabs until near 10 of us gently rolled along a very different seafront to the one we are used to.
The surfaces are for the most part WONDERFUL!
Even the “bad” ones were comparable to Eastbourne’s “medium” grade surfaces.
There is also a concrete block section, which although no good for freestyle is quite adequate for fitness and recreational skating.
We all pressured John to run a treasure hunt along it as it would be a unique event for the Eastbourne Skaters Sk8 M8’s to come over and do.
Looking forward to another trip here soon!
Video of the end : video0063.mp4
ESK Plants - kids fun day event
26/07/2008 by tim.
Well there were pony rides, seed planting, face painting, bands and - oh yes! Sk8school!
We planned to just teach, demo and run a few taster lessons for an hour or two, but it was so well attended that we ended up not being able to leave till 4:30!
Many thanks to Fred and ESK plants for inviting us along. Can’t wait for the next one!
Hopefully they will re-run this event sometime in September 
Breakfast Skate at Eastbourne Extreme
14/07/2008 by tim.
The Sk8school/Sk8 M8’s Breakfast skate has been added to both days of the Eastbourne Extreme Skate Time table.
If you are planning to attend the breakfast skate on either day - I’d recommend sprinting the last few hundred meters as the Holywell Cafe will be inundated with orders and will take a while to serve everyone!
Skate Lessons at Eastbourne Extreme
14/07/2008 by tim.
Sk8school will be teaching Skating Lessons at Eastbourne Extreme this year and it will be both days, running full programs for beginners, intermediate and experts alike. We’ll be running coaching sessions and tasters for all our mastering courses, backwards, turning and stopping. So whatever skill is in need of improvement, we will have something for you.
Just remember, that for the Eastbourne Extreme Weekend only - its at the Basket Ball courts, not the Turning Circle.
Eastbourne Extreme Kids Club - Biggest yet?
14/07/2008 by tim.
Well Sk8school are Teaching at Eastbourne Extreme this year and that’s including Kids Club in the official time table!
As the Pictures Show its a pretty popular and well attended event in any case every week. Lets hope that the Saturday and Sunday Kids Clubs for the Eastbourne Extreme weekend are the biggest Kids Club Sk8school has ever run!
I Just hope everyone remembers its not at the Turning Circle that weekend! We’ll be in the Skate part of the event near the basket ball courts.
Tell all your friends - lets make this the biggest one ever.
Another Sk8 n Chips success!
11/07/2008 by tim.
A welcome break in the weather allowed us to run a sk8 n chips (at last!).
As usual we did the “length” and finished off on the beach with the fish n chips! Another successful night skate in Eastbourne then!
And we even managed to get back before the rain came again!
The next breakfast skate is 9am Saturday AND Sunday during the Eastbourne Extreme weekend.
9am from the basket ball courts rather than the turning circle.
Sk8 M8’s Txt Event Notification - Near 100 users already!
16/06/2008 by tim.
Well, word of mouth seems to be working! The Sk8 M8’s event notification by SMS appears to be what people want, because in the first week of mentioning it to a few of you, nearly 100 people have signed up!
It’s safe to say the service is still somewhat “experimental” as we don’t quite know how well it’s going to work, so it could be withdrawn - but for the moment it certainly looks popular. The first test will be the Breakfast skate on the 21st or the Trip to London one Wednesday. We’ll just have to check the numbers and find out how people found out about it…
Sk8 M8’s Beach BBQ
11/06/2008 by tim.
A real case of sausage and roll!
Our first one of the year and a good number turned up, however there were about 4 times as many people watching and skating than actually eating (why eat before a BBQ?)
Anyway, a few pictures tell the story and show the wonderful surroundings. Alas poor Lee hurt his neck over the weekend at NewQuay so he wasn’t skating - but still seemed keen to instruct anyone who’d listen on how to cook the perfect sausage!
Many people struggled with the late notice (and we had to do it that way because of the weather and wind speed are a large factor!) However - the new and experimental Sk8 M8’s Event TXT notification should aid in that regard in the future!
And just to add a little fizz to the proceedings, we had to try out the Mentos and Coke experiment on the beach - there’s a video for it here! -> video0026.mp4
So how fast can you go?
09/06/2008 by tim.
Speed Skating - It’s not everyone’s bag, but how fast can you go? Are you just a little curious? Like anyone that’s been to the Sk8school Skate Theory Class, I know that “Rockered” is not as fast as “Flat Setup” (If you don’t know what that is - well get yourself along to the theory next time its on!).However I still managed a respectable 31kmh on the sprint. How do I know? I used a GPS speedo application and just read the speed of my GPS enabled mobile phone display! It’s by no means totally accurate - I should think there’s a good +/- 4kmh on that, but it’s still a useful indication. Additionally holding your phone, so you can read it tends to cramp the flow (and therefore top speed) somewhat.
Quite looking forward to practising the same run, “Flat” to see what the speed improvement is…
Anyone else got a similar application on their phone and tried the same? What’s the best you’ve done?