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Inline

Inline lessons only take place in the Spring and Summer seasons

Preschool: 4 - 5 Year Olds
School Age: 6 - 16 Year Olds
Adult: 17 and Up

Richmond Arenas Inline Lessons program is designed in conjunction with the Premier Sports Awards Program. It is intended to provide a fun and safe introduction to inline skating.

The participant will be evaluated on the skills at each individual level and may progress to the next level when all skills taught are performed successfully. Each level helps build confidence while introducing the skills of recreational inline skating.  

Intro

  • skating1Able to participate actively 
  • Stand on own
  • Bend to pick up objects
  • Skate in a circle around cones
  • Fall down/get up
  • While standing, turn in a circle
  • While standing, lift right foot
  • While standing, lift left foot
  • Skate from cone to cone
  • Balance objects, while skating
  • Backward walk from cone
  • Alternating feet, skating forward

Magenta 

  • Two foot glide
  • Skate with hands behind back
  • Skate in and out of cones
  • Skate in a circle
  • Skate and lift left foot
  • Skate and lift right foot
  • Skate and touch toes
  • Skate two foot jump
  • Sufficient speed the width of rink
  • Alternating feet backwards

Silver

  • skating2Skate around rink forwards
  • Class safety rules
  • Hill safety/traffic
  • Left and right turns 
  • Parallel turn stop
  • Two foot glide touching toes
  • Glide half width of the floor
  • Gliding two foot jump
  • Two foot gliding circle
  • Glide lift left foot
  • Glide lift right foot
  • Complete heel brake
  • Sufficient speed backwards

Teal 

  • Complete heel stop
  • Forward slalom
  • Scissors stop
  • Backward stop
  • Side steps on line right
  • Side steps on line left
  • Backward skating width of floor
  • Backward two foot glide
  • Backward two foot jump
  • Backward slalom
  • Glide on right foot (5 feet)
  • Glide on left foot (5 feet)

Purple

  • Backward two foot glide half-width
  • Backward glide touch toes
  • Crossovers clockwise
  • Crossovers counter clockwise
  • Backward scissor
  • Forward to backward mohawk turn
  • Backward to forward mohawk turn
  • Backward crossovers clockwise
  • Backward crossovers counter clockwise
  • Back one foot glide left
  • Back one foot glide right
  • Forward to backward jump
  • Backward to forward jump