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Has anyone found someone running lessons (group or individual)locally?


Looking for someone who might teach on Peckham Rye or Telegraph Hill (preferably) skating parks....


We're about to have our second child so I don't want to go very far otherwise (and I'd be so rubbish at teaching him), but searched on the EDF and found only one ad and they didn't reply.

Howl

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Hi there,


I talked to Oliver at Skates and Ladders. He's suggested that a group less for beginners aged between 5-7 would be a good one. The kids will go at different paces in the long term, but a one-off lesson would give us all the chance to think about what we want to do going forward, whether the group gels, and gain advice from the instructor about how many lessons we might be looking at. Personally, I would be interested in just getting my son confident enough on the board to practice by himself, maybe hooking up for other lessons later on. Oliver estimated 6 lessons would be good, but said that until we were in front of an instructor it would be impossible to say. There's no commitment in just going for a one hour group lesson.


The cost of a group lesson for the maximum numbers (5) is ?65. This works out about ?13. I'm guessing that Peckham Rye skate park might be a good place to do it - we're nearer Telegraph Hill skate park (also good).


If you're interested please pm me - with your email address - stating your preferred location, and I will send out a doodle poll to find a good date - they do get busy at weekends, but I'm sure we can find a date for a one-off and see where we want to go from there. If you happen to be in the area of the skatepark at various times of day on the weekends could you let me know how busy they are too!


If there are more than 5 we can look at getting two groups together.


Hope that makes sense! Let me know!

PeckhamNicola

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Mornings better than afternoons in a skateboard park as teenagers not yet up and about, but good chance to start running off younger kids'energy. Advise to take your child's own helmet if you have one for better fit but all is provided, including skateboard for anyone who just wants to try it out. (I don't work for them ;) ) I advise getting a group at the same level, it's pretty hard with several kids that age to cater for different abilities.
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I have a soon-to-be 8yo for whom I'd be interested in booking a few skateboard lessons - I think as others have said above, there's too much of an age gap between 5 and 8, but if there are other 7 or 8 yr olds who are interested, I'd love to hear from you.
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