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School of Skatin'
Developing young minds through skateboarding, education and fine arts.
Young children and teens have a natural attraction to exciting out-door activities like skateboarding. It helps individuals to develop mental proficiency and physical dexterity on multiple levels, with lasting benefits for years to come. Healthy physical activities, such as skateboarding, can have a significantly positive influence on a child by promoting self confidence and bolstering self esteem.
Skateboarding is intrinsically satisfying. Children naturally gravitate toward activities that involve rolling, turning, jumping and other such movements. The varying heights, speeds, and technical movements required in skateboarding help a child learn to calculate distances, solve problems, augment motor skills, and overcome fears.
Skateboarding does have rules which must be learned and followed, including unvarying physical rules, which come with real consequences. The sport also teaches principles that relate to individual safety and the safety of others. Learning these fundamentals allows individuals to cultivate communication skills in a group setting through respect, independence, and support of others.
Educators understand that a child¢s success in school is often influenced heavily by early childhood experiences, which form and mold their self-concepts. Children need to have positive reinforcement through solving problems, attaining goals, and having control over the direction of their lives. The concepts that are learned practicing and then achieving a particular skill in skateboarding are just as important as the physical skill itself. A child who has succeeded in reaching goals and who interacts positively with others develops a strong sense of self-esteem. This can encourage him or her to approach future situations with confidence and aim for success. Skateboarding can enhance one¢s ability to handle future life challenges by inspiring individuality and motivating accomplishment.
688 Skatepark firmly believes that skateboarding goes hand-in-hand with education and the Fine Arts. in 2008the creation of the School of Skatin' is our effort to begin offering programs in all three areas, which we believe will help children and young adults lead a positive and successful life.
Educators feel, and have observed, that student involvement in music and art programs have a positive impact on other areas of their lives. These educators will tell you that Fine Arts involvement improves a student's self-discipline, dexterity, coordination, self-esteem, thinking skills, listening skills, creative abilities and personal expression, in addition to skateboarding.
688 Skateparks
“School of Skatin”
5 week Skate Camp Program
Saturdays from 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM Instruction
11:00 AM – Noon / Open Skate
Members $115.00
Non Members $125.00
688 Skateparks
School of Skatin” Held every Saturday for a 5 week Session*
* A Session is a 5 week Program
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School of Skatin' Schedule for Ross Norton
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”School of Skatin”
Session Schedule
Day #1
- Intro to Park, Rules and Safety to all Level Assessment for Beg/advance
- Watch The First Step Video - The Ultimate Skateboarding Trick Tips Series
- Detailed Instruction- Board mechanics and coordination- Timing, balance and foot positioning
- Transitions for All – Learn basic to intermediate ramp tricks
Detailed Instruction-
Beginner- Board Setup/ Composition, stance (Regular/ Goofy), pushing, stopping, carving, turning, 180’s, 360’s, manuals ect.
Intermediate- Ollie, shove it, boneless, no comply, 180 ollie frontside/backside, nollie, ollie fakie, switch ollie, power slide, cabs
Intro to Ramp Skating- Dropping in kick turn, pivots, fakie rocks, rock and rolls.
Day #2
- Ollie Clinic- Learn the most important tool in skateboarding (the Ollie). The Ollie is one of the most important tricks in skateboarding it will basically be the foundational to learn all other skateboarding tricks from her on out. Types of ollie (Ollie, Nollie, switch, 180/360 frontside/ backside, half cab, one footed ollie, ollie obstacles)
- Ollie variations Science/ Physics
Ollie Contest- See what you have learned and put your skill to the test….Fun …Fun.!!
Day #3
-Game of Skate- Rules and Regulations on Game of Skate-
Trick combinations and combining tricks from previous days.
- Overview on the past 3 days and open Skate.
Game of Skate Rules-
1. May be played on obstacles, put primarily on the flat ground.
2. Skater must go in turn
3. Must call your trick (must know trick name and land it)
4. Caller must land trick in no more than 3 attempts.
5. Followers may land sketchy but body cannot touch the ground (hands/Feet)
6. Failed attempt to land trick performed by opposing skater results in a letter S
7. All failed attempts to mimic trick by opposing skater result in a letter
8. This process is repeated until SKATE is spelled out and the skater is eliminated
9. Followers get 2 attempts at final letter.
Tech Skating – Clinic on technical trick combinations and Lines- How to combine several tricks to make one trick. 180 Flips, Big Spins, Tre Flip ect.
Day #4
- Basics on Ledges/ Rails for all
- Grabs Clinic- Basic ways to grab your skateboard on different obstacles.
- Creating Lines- Creating contest runs
Grabs- StailFish, Tail, Indy, Frontside, Mute, Japan, Nose, Backside
Line- A combination of trick done in a consecutive order
Run- Several lines combined for a specific duration of time. Runs can be organized in many combinations
Heat- One complete cycle of contestants, each with one complete run.
Day #5
-Practice lines/ Runs for contest
-Warm up –Warm up practice for contest
- Heat one – Each skater gets a 50 second run
- Heat two- each skater gets a 50 second run
- Contest results/ awards, and Certificates of Achievement
Contest Rules and Regulations-
1. No free Skating during contest except for 15 minutes warm up time provided prior to heat start
2. Heats with each skater getting 50 seconds
3. Must be called on to skate
4. Start run from anywhere on course
5. Time starts
Contest Judging
1. Key strategies- Consistency/ Style/ park utilization/ creativity and difficulty of tricks
2.Order determined by sign in sheet
