Improve your skate skills

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Get your skates on and have an amazing start to the day!

Ditch the packed tube, late buses and traffic jams, get you skates on and skate to work.

This is a great way to meet new people, have lots of fun and discover one of the best ways to get around any city. You will feel good and the exercise will do you good. It may do you so much good you may like a little longer!

You are happy skating around the park, doing a bit of stopping and turning but now it's time to get out on the street for the real stuff.

We are running an amazing course which covers all the skills you need to use your skates as transport.

ICP Level 1 Certification

This level is the first certification for new instructors and teaches you the basics of teaching using the beginner skills syllabus.

The course consists of two components; a skating skills workshop held several weeks prior to the weekend course, and the weekend course itself. This lasts 2.5 days (Friday evening to Sunday evening).

The next weekend course in London will be on 14th – 16th May 2010. The skills session is on Saturday 17th April, 10.00am – 12.30pm. Please contact mark@skateinstructor.com if you wish to attend this class.

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The times for the lessons are:

1. Tuesday 2nd June at 7pm
2. Tuesday 9th June at 7pm
3. Tuesday 16th June at 7pm
4. Sunday 28th June at 2pm

If you are interested in attending this course please contact us.

UPDATE: This workshop is over now, but we will be doing another one soon. To make sure you don't miss it, subscribe to our newsletter or join our Facebook group!

They are two really great skills for any skater especially if you do any of London's street skates or use your skate to go pretty much anywhere, they are also two really great skills for hockey players.

The Lunge turn is essentially a Parallel Turn but you don't have to slow down so much to do it. In-fact it's exactly that, a speed turn.

Every Sunday, at 3:30pm, skateinstructor.com runs a 1 hour follow-on session that leads on from our Sunday Beginners session.

Whilst this is intended to teach you turns and how to get on-and-off pavements, it can also be used as a further hour for learning the skills from the Sunday Beginners session if you are struggling (we physically split the group if this is necessary). If you don't want to do this session on the same day you can return whenever you like.