Beginners Skating

Beginners skating and learning to skate are where we 'all' start, let's see how other beginners learn to skate and where to learn.

I know from experience the pain of getting up after a long break on small wheels and possibly for some, taking up skating after your childhood years are long behind you. For fortunate others it's just been maybe a few years from the times when it all seemed easier and we didn't have a care about falling over, hurtling downhill or weaving around obstacles.

And do we really need to worry about age, weight or ability? I would say 'no' from experience because I decided to take up skating at 67! Yes, you read that correctly, sixty seven times around the clock before I thought "I want to take up skating". My story is on the home page of 80skates but that's not important here because it's 'your stories' that I and others want to hear about.

We all need encouragement in some shape or form and it 'is' so encouraging when we see other people who just like us, have contemplated beginners skating as the route to looking as graceful as the experts. Why are they experts.....because they've started at the beginning like us, gone through a learning curve and practiced, drilled and rehearsed until it becomes second nature.

I would bet that we've all scoured the websites looking for 'how to roller skate' and similar searches on Facebook for 'skating' in some form or another and then have had to pluck up the courage to book our first lesson!

For me, I found a great club in the form of TJ's Roller Skating that runs skating for all ages around the South Wales area in the UK, they cater for beginners, intermediates and the more experienced and even supply all the equipment you need including 'free skate hire'.

My first outing was less than impressive barely making it around the rink. I did suffer a few minor falls but little by little gained more confidence each week assisted by my guide 'Cain' who I'm grateful to, for all the help just to keep me vertical on the skates and not scrambling about like 'Bambi'.

So, to share with others and give words of encouragement, what I'd like to see are YOUR efforts as a beginner, in words and pictures giving others the courage to join us in our quest to become proficient skaters on quads or inline skates, in doesn't matter, we all start somewhere.

Wherever you're at, whether you're about to start, have already taken lessons or want to show where it is you practice, I'd like to see it and others will as well.

I'm going to start this off and show you an example of what it might look like. Scroll to the section below 'what other visitors have said" in blue....and see how it looks!

It's that easy to do, just fill in the box below :-)