Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Skateboarding Class

Shayne has always liked the idea of skateboarding. Last summer we got him a skateboard and he has been practicing on it. The city of Chandler, which is south of Mesa, and where I work, offers a lot of fun, interesting, fairly inexpensive activities for people of all ages through their parks and recreation program. Anyway, they have an Introduction to Skateboarding class for 7-12 year olds that takes place once a week at a skate park in Chandler. Shayne was really excited to sign up for it, so we did. He has been going for 6 weeks now and has gotten a lot better. One of the things I really like about it is that the instructor, who is young enough that I could almost be his mother, covers skills and safety about equally. Rick has been taking him down there to practice a few times a week lately too, which he loves. Anyway, here are some photos:




3 comments:

*~Petra~* said...

How fun that he can be in a class for that! My son would love it! Glad to hear about all the safety and see the helmet. That is my biggest scare.

Cindy said...

Lookin' good!

Alison said...

What a perfect class for Shayne. The walls on that skate park look steep, so he must be good to make it to the bottom in tact.