WHY TAKE A LESSON? –  and what to expect!

Here are a few good reasons:

Learn to stop before you start!   A Certified Instructor will show you how to control your roll by explaining how to effectively use your skates’ brakes.

Certified Instructors will help you to gain a basic understanding of the skills involved in inline skating, creating a foundation of solid skills that will increase your confidence on skates.

Unlike a video, an Instructor can monitor your performance and give specific feedback on what you’re doing well and what you need to work on in order to improve.

How many times have you asked several people the same question, only to receive several different answers?  Lessons from Certified Instructors guarantee you will develop a consistent framework on which you can build.  Instructors not only demonstrate proper technique, but also can replicate any problem you might have so you can see differences in body position.

·        A LESSON will allow you to build your skills.

Once you have your foundation, learning more advanced skills is much easier.

·        A LESSON is NOT just for kids.

Whether you’re five or seventy-five, there’s no better way to improve your skating than by taking a lesson.  With a Certified Instructor, it is the best and safest way to work your way into your new sport.

·        A LESSON is safe.

After learning a few simple skills with your mind at ease, you’ll soon be doing what you thought you were afraid to!   Certified Instructors endorse the use of full protective equipment and will show you how to fall (simulated, of course!) and get up using the gear as protection.

 ·        A LESSON provides focus.

A Certified Instructor will help you practice your skills in a fun way.  Doing the same thing repeatedly by yourself may help a bit, but chances are you’ll get bored, and who knows if what you are practising is right.  Practice does not make perfect – PERFECT PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT!

·        LESSONS produce safe skaters.

Once you have new skills and confidence under your belt, you’ll be a safer skater, able to manoeuvre through the streets and along tracks with control.  You will have more fun and enjoy the surroundings or conversation of a friend, and the pedestrians and cyclists will be happy that there is one less flailing skater sharing the path!

·        LESSONS produce confident skaters.

When you are confident and safe, the number of places where you can skate will increase.  You won’t be afraid of tiny hills and kerbs.  You’ll end up taking your skates everywhere with you!  (Useful in the car if you run out of petrol!)

·        A LESSON can be social – and fun!

Group lessons bring out the best in people!  Students support and encourage each other to achieve their next ‘goal’ and friendships develop.  The fun part is that you are all in this together and camaraderie usually surfaces very quickly.

It’s the best thing you can do to get the value and fun from your skates that you expect!