You've probably noticed that there was no March newsletter and there have only been a couple of posts since January: I've not disappeared, I've just been busy working on a few things.
I've put aside my Saturday mornings to practice my own skills. The plan is that, for 4 Saturdays, myself and a few friends will concentrate on practicing one skill. For the last month we've been doing hockey stops and now we're doing stair riding. This regular, concentrated practice is a good idea: it allows your body to build muscle memory and gives you the confidence to start trying to use it outside of a safe environment. My hockey stop has improved no end!
And this doesn't mean that I'm unable to teach private lessons on Saturday mornings: I just won't be scheduling any of my group courses for that time. So, if you're looking to improve your skating and want to book a lesson on Saturdays, please do still contact me.
Which reminds me: I've scheduled some more group courses. The street skater course, that teaches you to skate on the street without the marshals available to you on the Sunday Stroll, starts 1st August 2009; there are also several runs of the Sunday Stroll course before then.
To keep up-to-date with the course schedule you can use the course calendar, or subscribe to the new course iCalendar file in your calendar software.
I've also been putting together an article on how to build a high jump bar. Jumping is something I'd like to be good at, and buying a high jump bar appears to be relatively expensive, so I decided to make one. You can read about how I did it and see the end result in the article. I was pleasantly surprised by the result!
Finally I've been working on the look of this website and writing loads of content for the students area. Hopefully the website itself is starting to get a little easier to use; it certainly feels like it to me.
The students area is like an online manual for my students. It has notes on a lot of what I teach and access to it is included in the price of any private lesson or group course that you attend. Even though you might not be a student of mine you can still browse some of the content.
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