Roller Blading Joins Curriculum Too
We’ve already talked about the growth of skateboarding in schools, and now the roller blading is following suit. Lancaster school in America obtained a $3000 grant to introduce an inline skating program to their Phsyical Education classes.
They start out with basic instruction on how to walk, stop and fall (they have to be shown?? i figured that one out all on my own :P) and then progress on to gliding about, turning, skating backwards, avoiding obstacles and performing some simple tricks.
Since 1996 the Skate In School project has been helping out schools with inline skating programs, but it’s beginning to become a lot more visible now.
It got me thinking about the impact this publicity and mainstreaming is going to have on the skating community… certainly today i was partially glad for it, as a skater was polite enough to step off his board and carry it as i passed by on a narrow pavement. Years ago he’d have zoomed past, not caring much if he knocked me over on the way. These days, with the gradual removal of the rebel aspect, these sports are becoming safer, and more respected by everyone, not just the practitioners. Whether that’s a good thing though… is probably something everyone is going to have to decide for themselves.
June 18th, 2006 at 3:26 pm
[…] It got me thinking about the impact this publicity and mainstreaming is going to have on the skating community… certainly today i was partially glad for it, as a skater was polite enough to step off his board and carry it as i passed by on a narrow pavement. Years ago he’d have zoomed past, not caring much if he knocked me over on the way. These days, with the gradual removal of the rebel aspect, these sports are becoming safer, and more respected by everyone, not just the practitioners. Whether that’s a good thing though… is probably something everyone is going to have to decide for themselves. (source) […]