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Almost everyone feels nervous and apprehensive when they first put on a pair of Rollerblade's. We specialise in putting you at ease and getting you skating quickly as well as having loads of fun at the same time!

If you are a beginner and can't stand up on your skates yet, if you can't stop, or if you are a more advanced skater and want to learn some cool stuff, you have come to the right place to learn.

Stair riding extreme workshop

David Whitehead is one of the UK's top extreme inline street skaters right now and he's going to be running the awesome workshop!

It covers riding stairs forwards and backwards and jumping up and down stairs.

It's a 1.5 hour course and costs £30 per person.

Time and place

St Paul side of the Millenium Bridge, 11am to 12.30pm on Saturday 20th September 2008.

PariSkate

Following three years of successful skate trips to Paris, 2008 will see Skateinstructor.com and Skatefresh.com going to Paris to skate the famous Friday night Pari-Roller street skate and enjoy a weekend of skating in one of the world's most skateable cities.

Skateinstructor.com and Skatefresh.com are going to Paris to skate the famous Friday night Pari-Roller street skate and enjoy a weekend of skating in one of the world's most skateable cities.

The "unbelievably smooth" streets of Paris form the backdrop to the weekend and the Friday street skate can have over 15,000 skaters participating each week! See the city on skates on Saturday and complete another street skate on Sunday.

Read more about this amazing skate weekend...

The London Friday Night Skate & Sunday Stroll

The London skater community created these regular street skates several years ago. They are marshalled, where very good skaters block the traffic to provide a safe environment, and are absolutely free. The Sunday Stroll is a good street skate for beginners whereas the London Friday Night Skate is much, much faster! Run throughout the year these are a prime example of the community working together.

The Wednesday Night Skate

Run throughout the summer, the Wednesday Night Skate lies somewhere between the Sunday Stroll and London Friday Night Skate. With a relaxed and often loud environment, it's something to aim for as a beginner. Again, this skate is absolutely free.

The Santa Skate

If there is one skate to attend each year, this is it. Imagine 500 skaters, all dressed as Santa Claus, skating through the streets of London. Do a search on YouTube you'll see not only the skaters smiling and laughing, but the Christmas shoppers too.

Pari-Roller

Venture to Paris and take part in their regular Friday night street skate and you're likely to be one of 15,000 skaters! The streets of Paris are smooth, unlike those in London, and the pace can be quicker than the London skates, but the pauses are usually longer. Look out for the police on skates!

Tag!

skateinstructor.com instructor, and Club Blue Room manager, David Whitehead gets chased around London by bike messengers. If you can, or want to, skate like this then you should consider doing some of David's courses.

Naomi Does London

Naomi Grigg, recently rated one of the top 3 slalom skaters in the world, shows some of her skills at various locations around London.

Kompakombo.com

If you're looking to learn some of the slaloming moves then you could do worse than take a look at this site.

skatephoto.net

Mike has put together a fantastic skate photo site with loads of pictures of us. Thank you Mike!

There are several regular street skates organised by volunteer marshals: The London Friday Night Skate & Sunday Stroll and the regular Wednesday night skate courtesy of LondonSkate. There is an important post on the Serpentine Road skating forum that everyone attending these events should read: StreetSkating Rules.