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Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Week 9 - Final skateboarding session

This week was our final chance to show off our skateboarding skills.  Over the past eight weeks we have had awesome sessions with our two skateboarding coaches Martin and Aidan.  Some of the things that we have picked up along the way are:

  • how to balance and push ourselves on the skateboard
  • how to take apart and reassemble a skateboard using teamwork
  • how to turn both ways
  • how to ride up and down ramps
Here are some photos of Manukau in action last week:


We have had so much fun and we are really sad to finish this adventure. Many of us have developed or strengthened our love of skateboarding through this.  We might even check out their holiday programme and look forward to having a go at this again soon.  

Please leave us a positive, thoughtful and helpful comment to find out more.


14 comments:

  1. we use wheels at our school .

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    1. Hi there brock thanks for the comment,That is cool that you use wheels at your school do you ride a skateboard because we were learning how to ride a skateboard and how to do some tricks.Also we went on ramps.

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  2. Kia ora Room 8,
    I have enjoyed following your adventures of learning to skateboard on your blog. It's great to hear you have all learnt so many new skills. I imagine being a skateboard coach would be a fantastic job! I imagine they are amazing skateboarders! Have they showed you all the tricks they can do?
    Tania

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    1. Hi there Tania, thanks for the comment! These skateboarding teachers were really good at teaching us. I'm pretty sure that they have shown all the tricks they can do because they usally do tricks while we skateboard.
      From: Amie

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  3. Wow!

    I am so impressed to see these young 'rippers' learning how to skate. Would I be right in assuming that Mr Riceman used to spend his time skating around the concrete jungle? You have inspired us to post some skateboarding videos now. I was very impressed with the one-footed-50/50 in slide 13. That must have taken a very long time to master!

    Here is a pic of me skateboarding on my new driveway.
    http://paroa7.blogspot.co.nz/2017/01/welcome-to-2017.html

    Cheers,

    Mr McAulay

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  4. hi room 8 Awesome tricks i wish that i could do these without falling on my face are there any tricks you would have liked to have done but didnt get to

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  5. Hey room 8 Awesome skateboarding wish I could do tricks like that without falling on my face. Are there any tricks you haven't learnt but want to? -Ella

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  6. hi room 8, I wish our class could do something like that. like Ella said she would fall on her face no joke! I probably would too doing tricks like that! I remember once i was skateboarding with my friends I wasn't looking were I was going and bumped into my friend in front of me. I also broke a scooter in half trying to do a bunny hop. Please consider checking out my blog, that would mean the world to me. just click on my name above the comment.

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    1. oh yeah the I mean the link above this comment.

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  7. Lucky you get to have skate session have a look at my term reflection
    http://paroagreykadej.blogspot.co.nz/2017/07/term-reflection.html

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  8. Hi Room 8 Sammi from Paroa school here!

    You guys look like pros at skateboarding I wish I could do some rad tricks like you guys! Me and My friend made a video on wheels! Check it out below!
    https://paroagreysammif.blogspot.co.nz/2017/07/how-to-get-towed-by-scooter-on-rip-surf.html

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  9. You have inspired us to make some skateboarding videos!

    Check out our first one...

    https://paroa7.blogspot.co.nz/2017/07/inspired-to-make-video.html

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  11. Kia Ora Room 8, My name is Xavier from Saint Patrick's School. I like your procedure explaining how to ride a skateboard. I also learnt how to ride a skateboard at school. Are there any other tricks that you would like to learn?

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