At the beginning of the month I ran a private lesson with London based professionals Justin and Lingling who are in their mid 20s. We met at Whitegrounds skatepark which is local to them. Whitegrounds is a street style concrete park with plenty of ledges, banks and irregular transitions with some challenging lines. It is […]
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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 […]
Continue readingHarrison’s skateboard birthday party, with old cottage coffee shop catering!
Harrison with his school of skate t-shirt Skateboard lesson Birthday party Dropping in skateboard lesson warm up Rolling down bank on skateboard Learning to ride skateboard Dropping in on skateboard Check foot positioning skateboard On Sat 25th May, Dell and myself ran a skateboarding party for Harrison who was celebrating his 9th birthday with 15 [...] Continue reading
Skateboard birthday party at Skaterham skatepark for George
One of our regulars to the progressing group, George, had his birthday skateboard party at Skaterham skatepark in Caterham recently, and he invited us along to help out giving skateboard lessons! We gave George his own school of skate t-shirt for posterity so he could remember his party! Dell is in the picture presenting it […]
Continue readingSkateboard lessons at the Greenwich Get Together festival
We were invited along to the Greenwich Get Together festival by the Royal Borough of Greenwich on the 30th June to run skateboarding lessons on a mini ramp provided by kingramps.co.uk. We were running lessons for festival goers in the Royal Arsenal site of the festival, just down by the river Thames. We ran an [...] Continue reading