Hey a skaters I’m dirty Deborah hurry with the dirty school escape and sure-grip roller skate I’m here at the fountain vallye skating center with a very special video for parents parents is it time to teach your kid how to skate did you skate when you were younger and
Just want to get back to it and you want to drag your kid along teach your kid how to skate from my experience with parents is either delightful or a nightmare I am here to help you make it more on the delightful side of the spectrum and avoid the nightmarish stuff
That happens sometimes when you try to teach your kid something new now the reason why I know this video is important is because I know that skating brings together the generations I get so many messages from grandparents that are now back skating and their skating with their grandkids what other sport can you
Do that parents skating with kids cousins skating together just bringing families together and I love it and I love it and I want it for you and I want it to be a good experience so parents this video is for you to watch not necessarily your
Kids I’m gonna give you all the tips tricks and secrets to get your kids skating later on I’m gonna release a video that is absolutely for your child I’m gonna literally look through the camera and speak to them and tell them how to skate okay but this video is just
For you so let’s get started the number one thing you have to tell your kid is everyone falls in skating it’s part of skating learning how to fall learning how to get back up and try again is one of the hallmarks of skating falling doesn’t necessarily end after
You learned how to skate some of the best skaters fall quite often because they’re constantly trying to do new things reach new heights where you just have accidents where you fall ok so we need to incorporate falling as something fun in skating so number one you tell them
Everyone’s gonna fall in skating oh my god you’re gonna fall so much I’m gonna fall you’re gonna fall Filene’s fun let’s make it a game now here are my rules for falling your kid’s gonna fall in their own way you literally don’t have to hold on to them kids fall all
The time right they’re running around they fall it’s not a big deal for a kid to fall down not like it is for an adult ok we don’t like fall down every once in a while the kids kind of fall out so it’s not a big deal
Your reaction to them falling is so important you need to tell them hey you’re gonna fall and when they fall you’re like oh my god and help them up you can help them up that’s fine but when they fall you can’t be like oh my god are you hurt are you ok
Trust me your kid is fine so tell them that every time that they fall that it’s not their fault it’s no big deal it happens all the time and then tell them you’re gonna play a little game where they have three seconds not four not five not ten they
Have three seconds in which to get up when they fall so when your kid falls on the ground you say up up up one two three and get them to get up now what I really like to do when I’m teaching my kids here at the rink is tell them to
Say up up up every time they hit the ground I have all the kids say up up up they continue to say up up up until they actually get up you know why that’s important it helps trick the brain when they have fallen sometimes they get scared they’re
Not hurt trust me they’re not hurt what they are is shocked so I will tell children honey before you know you’re skating you fall down you know most of the time you’re not hurt you’re just super shocked by the experience because you were out skating around and it boom
All of a sudden you’re on the ground so I give them a tool to use I tell them see up up up up up up and then you got three seconds and I count one and two three now here’s the point straight up you might have to bribe your child you
Might have to say hey there’s something in it for you if you hit the ground and get up in three seconds and say up up up I’m gonna give you a sticker candy money a puppy I don’t care whatever it is you got in your arsenal to wheel out to help
This kid would be perfect if not you’re just like I’m just gonna need you to get up with that up up up now when I was teaching kids for a little while I had like a moment where I realized something when I say to a kid something
Really loud like I go up up up I realized that some of them would have this look on their face and in their mind I was yelling at them so I had to literally explain when I get super excited and you fall down and I yell up
Up up at you I am not mad at you you have done nothing wrong I’m just highly encouraging you to get up as quickly as possible so when that happens I’m like yeah good job good job good job I don’t care about the fall I care about that get enough that’s what the
Important thing is okay care about the getting up the fall does not matter let me say this – I know that we’re really into protective gear these days you know helmets pads and all this stuff and we think if our kid Falls are gonna hurt themselves just remember if you’re a
Dolt of my age or anywhere my generation we did lots of things and we had zero protective gear including like seat belts okay I’m not suggesting that you now driving around without seat belts and nothing like that I’m just saying understand they did your kids a lot more durable than you think
And with you with the right attitude being happy and fun about it and be like oh and they jump up and you’re like oh my god good job your kid’s gonna be just fine now your kid when they’re on their skates and they’re not falling they’re
Gonna need to know how to skate properly let’s talk about this proper body posture just have your kid go like this stick those heels together penguin feet just tell them to put their feet in the penguin position which’s heels together now have them put their
Arms out to the side now tell them get down a little bit low now all I need them to do is shift their body weight from side to side the biggest challenge here is oftentimes your kid won’t want to pick up their foot why they’ve all of a sudden got this giant apparatus
Attached to their foot it’s got wheels on it it already make them fall it feels heavy it’s bizarre there’s a lots of stuff going on they don’t know so this is my little trick I tell them I want them to make some noise you tell a kid
You want them to make some noise I tell penguin position put your arms down don’t stomp on the floor make some noise literally someone out there can make a million dollars if they could just make a skate that every time you stopped on the floor came out with a different
Sound effectively like Springs boeing-boeing boom boom boom boom I tell them like this we’re gonna go boom boom boom I tell these kids make some noise I have them do this for the sheer fact as I need them to pick up their foot and set it down pick up their foot and set
It down otherwise they do this they do this all the time in it gets them know we’re also this this or my favorite I know how to ride a scooter this I’m a skateboarder same thing just pushing that one foot so weird for you penguin position get down low make some
Noise once they know how to do that now arms sometimes your kids arms are all over the place you tell them that you need them to act like a little airplane I need airplane arms out now when you tell your kids don’t want airplane arms out also have to tell them what you
Don’t want I don’t want spaghetti arms I don’t want airplane wings that flap I need airplane arms out penguin feet make some noises it pounds forward right now once they can do that I can guarantee you there is going to be a lot of bobbling around as they find their
Center of balance over their skates it’s just natural so I tell my kids listen if you think you’re gonna fall I need you kick to get down in my favorite position which is drag a tiny car now I see drive a tiny car because I need them to get
Down as low as possible especially if they think they’re gonna fall and then I need them to do something with their arms I don’t want them to put their arms in the back I don’t want their arms to go way up high so I tell them airplane
Airplane airplane oh I think I’m gonna fall driving a tiny car complete with steering wheel so that their hands will come in front of them so let’s review it’s going to be penguin feet arms just out you’re gonna say make some no try the tiny car it is literally as simple
As that I want you to review those things over and over then once your kid has that I want you to have fun with them and tell them we’re gonna walk around in a circle have them get their airplane arms out remember no spaghetti arms I want you to look ahead at them
And then look over your shoulder when they look over their shoulder tell them to pick up their feet and make some noise in a circle and I can guarantee you they will go like this the more I can get them this the more I can get
Them to make turns on the floor so again penguin feet arms out like an airplane oh my god I’m gonna fall it drive a tiny car get up and tell them turn turn turn look over there turn and turn and turn kids love it they love it they love it they love it
Now the last tip I have for you is very very important you have to manage your expectations for a lot of you you may have been a very good skater when you were young and you may have been the type of kid that just strapped on skates
Got out in the street and just killed it and then you may look at your child today and think like or you may be just the type of parent that really wants their child to be very very good at something and I want them to be very
Very good at something but we both need to realize that it takes a ton of practice a ton of practice and if you get your kid off at the very beginning on a good foot of just playing with this of just being a penguin with your
Airplane arms and driving a tiny car and then spinning yourself in circles I promise you that your kid will want to do it over and over and over again they don’t have to be great right at the beginning I cannot tell you how many kids I’ve taught that struggled so hard
In the beginning and then over time they got better and better and better to the point where they are amazing now so manage your expectations rule of thumb have fun have fun with your kid because you only get to teach them this one time and if it becomes a situation where they
Are frightened by it because they didn’t know that falling was okay or they they think that they’re being yellow that they may not want to do it again and I don’t want that for you so parents have a blast teaching your kids how to skate please leave me comments
And me messages ask me questions I am more than happy to help you okay you could even send me a video of your kid skating and I’ll tell you what you need to do with them if you’re really really stuck later on we’ll come out with a more
Advanced video for you to teach your kids more advanced stuff other than that you could come on down to the rink or your local skating rink generally every skating rink has kids classes on Saturday so make sure you check it out so again please leave me comments please
Send me messages questions and all that and if you could subscribe to my channel that would be great and then heads up coming is the video where I talk straight through the camera to your kid and get them to skate alright you guys I’ll see you in my next video now go practice
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