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Skateboarding for the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme

We had a student approach us to undertake skateboarding as part of their their Edinburgh Award scheme at the Bronze level. In his role as Head Coach, Coach Stu agreed to assess the students progress. Aim of the physical part of the award The aim is as follows: To inspire young people to achieve greater […]

We’re moving Copelands to unit 2B

Our Copeland Park location will be closing for the first couple of weeks of November while we move to bigger space just next door. Here’s the backstory; we were due to move into our space when we were offered a larger space at Copeland Park. Unfortunately we couldn’t move in to the larger straight away […]

Buying pads & helmets for skateboarding

Ok we’re going to talk today about buying pads & helmets for learning to skateboard. This article mostly deals with when you are beginning to learn to skateboard. The pads that are best for you may change based upon: your age, ability, your ambition, and the style of riding you want to do. When you […]

Free Clown Skateboards Setup & lesson at Bromley

Free Skateboards & skateboard lessons with School of Skate UK and Clown In Action on the 30th July 2022. Please pre-book below. Beginner skateboard lessons We will have 10 places available at each lesson. Each kid will get a deck, grip tape, and an undercarriage (trucks, wheels & bearings). The first 30 minutes they will […]

Skateboarding contributes to Mental Health and Wellbeing

Aside from the obvious physical benefits of exercise that Skateboarding affords us, research has shown it can also help us develop life skills and can contribute to mental health and wellbeing. (There’s a lot of cross over between the following.) Life skills How can skateboarding make us more successful in life? Resilience. Failure, failure, failure… […]

Overcome your fear of falling

One of the most important skills to learn in skateboarding is falling. We know that making mistakes is a key component in the learning process. The more mistakes we make the faster we learn. We can take more risks and we can learn faster. Another aspect of this is that we can experiment more, and [...] Continue reading

Skateboard lessons at Folkestone gardens skatepark

This weekend I ran a private skateboard lesson for Isaac, aged 8, at Folkestone gardens skatepark in Deptford. Folkestone gardens skatepark has a lot of transition, and is bowled out at one end. There are more street features at the other with a rail down some stairs. It’s a great park for learning to skateboard. We […]

I’m now a sports first aid qualified skateboarding instructor

Skateboarding instructor Sports First Aid Certificate

I spent the 23rd April doing my sports first aid training with the St John’s Ambulance. I’m now a sports first aid qualified skateboarding instructor. I learned the procedures to follow in the event of an accident, and some practical aspects, such as how to do CPR, how to tie a sling and to apply […]

Family skateboard lessons

Since opening our beginners skateboarding lesson to all ages we’ve had a few parents bringing their family and joining in! Debbie, and Imogen 8, and William 7, joined us on Saturday morning in Charlton Skatepark in London. Whilst admitting to falling over more than the kids (a key part of the lesson of course) Debbie was […]

Our first adult in the beginner group & George works on rock fakies

George working his way up to a rock fakie

The good weather is back, hopefully to stay, and so we had a good turn out at the weekend. We had our first adult at the beginner skateboarding group class on Saturday, Imogen who did herself proud! She rolled down the bank by herself by the end of the lesson. She came with her daughter, and […]

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