On The Trail

IN THIS ISSUE...

• Publisher's Message
• Curbs
• Until Next Time

Publisher's Message

Welcome to the sixth issue of On The Trail! The Inline Skating Center will publish ten issues of the newsletter from now until the end of October covering a wide range of topics about inline skating on marked trails.

In today's issue, we're going to introduce a tactic you can use when you need to skate up and over roadside curbs like a pro.

Curbs

Sometimes you may be skating on a road and you need to go from the road to the sidewalk in a hurry. In this case, you need to step up and over the curbing that runs between the road and the sidewalk. Here's how!

To step up and over top of the curb from the road to the sidewalk:

1. Skate parallel with and to within six inches of the curb.
2. Lift your right skate about one foot straight up in the air.
3. Now shift your right skate out to your right side and over top of the curb.
4. After it clears the curb, set it back down on the sidewalk about twelve inches on the other side of the curb.
5. After your right skate touches the sidewalk, lift your left skate quickly off the road and move it over top of the curb to the sidewalk being careful to lift it high enough so as not to clip the top of the curb.
6. Set your left skate back down on the sidewalk in the home position next to your right skate to steady yourself and to return to a balanced position.
7. Resume striding and gliding as before on the sidewalk.

Until Next Time

Some trails contain metal gates that act as safety barriers to reduce the speed of cyclists and skaters when they approach cross walks that are open to automobile traffic.

In the next issue, we'll look at a tip and tactic you can use to skate around and through these gates with ease.