Beginner Skateboarding Classes
Skateboarding kickflips into PE
Skateboarders aren’t frowned on at Oak Elementary School in Albany, Ore. In fact, students there get credit for performing grabs, kickturns and ollies in class.
Oak is among hundreds of schools across the country that have adopted a skateboarding curriculum in their physical education classes.
Skate Pass, the Boulder, Colo., company that created the curriculum in 2006, says skateboarding is now being taught in schools in more than a dozen U.S. states, plus Germany and Canada.
Educators say it’s part of a "new PE" movement that recognizes that some kids aren’t natural athletes.
"When people first hear ‘elementary PE,’ the first thing that comes to mind is dodgeball. Then all the other stuff they didn’t like," says Jake Gerig, Oak Elementary’s PE teacher. Continue reading Skateboarding in School
Beginner Skateboarding Classes
Skateboarding Clinics for Summer 2008
Group Clinics are available Tuesdays & Thursdays 3:30 & 5:30
To Sign Up: Contact Wild Blue For more information
Uptown Skate School has has partnered with Wild Blue and New York Pipe Dreams to create an amazing new skateboarding clinic for the summer – the only one in Manhattan currently offering regularly scheduled lessons for kids. ?
Activities include: Basics, Trick lessons, the game of SKATE, Best tricks, demonstrations, and free stuff
Private Skateboarding lessons: Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced Stre et and/or Skat
e Park lessons are available any day of the week. Combining the group and private lessons are a great way to keep the learning fun and social.
Skateboarding provides New York City kids a unique opportunity to challenge themselves in a positive way, progress and socialize with other kids, become more familiar with the New York and it’s unique urban enviroment, and to have fun.
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Free Skateboarding Tips & Movies
How to skateboard for beginners
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