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Active Ageing

Many have wished or nursed a dream to be able to skate but left it at that because as you grow older you treasure your life more and less likely to take risk. If you feel the responsibility of being a sole bread earner and care giver, you will avoid inline skating if you subscribe to the notion. . .

Myth: You must fall to learn to skate. . . No Pain No Gain.

isk8ed: If you look around at the parks today you can find some skaters in their golden years enjoying the sea breeze in the faces without the worries of injuring themselves.

How could they have done it? Many of them have only learned to skate in the last 2 years. The notion that you have to fall to learn to skate deters many from picking up inline skating. Only the risk takers are willing to give it a try.

Now a new method to teach inline skating without falling is being promoted by a Singaporean, Edward Lim, 58, who has learned to skate by accident in 1998. . . literally by accidents and going to hospital twice needing ten stitches in all and multiple visits to Chinese Sinseh for massages and acupuncture treatments. Lost 10 kilos in 4 months. . .This literally is. . . No Pain No Gain or Lost.

After many falls and injuries, and helping others not to injure themselves, a new method to teach inline skating was developed and a skating school is formed in 2002.

After fine tuning the skating lessons, isk8ed, a skating school now promotes inline skating to anyone with a slogan. . . in one breath. . .

UDon'tHave2Fall2Learn2Sk8Safely&LeisurelyASAP

Who can learn to skate? Age is not the criteria. Youngest??? If you can walk & run. Oldest??? if you can still walk and can still jog, you can still learn to inline skate safely and leisurely.

A student age 66, started from zero, learned to skate in 8 days with 8 lessons. He cannot afford to fall. . . So why should the younger students fall???

Besides the development of teaching method, the lessons taught in small group are tailored to each individual’s ability to learn. A large group starting together will see different progress even in the first lesson.

Myth: I am so old, fat and weak. How can I learn to skate?

isk8ed: As we grow older, our body's metabolism rate slows down, our muscle slacks and psychologically we allowed it to go that way. Our bones too will loose its mass if we do less physical exercises.

Then as we put on weight we become more reluctant to move our mass and this is the beginning of a vicious circle that whenever we try to exercise our back and muscle aches you can reverse the trend if you pick up skating. Whenever you are on skates, your whole body activates metabolism rate pick up and you can lose weight by skating and enjoying the fast changing scenery too.

Myth: I fear the wheels.... I am very lousy at balancing. . .

isk8ed: Even active sportsman has problem balancing at the beginning. Only a lady gymnast and tight rope walker has not problem learning to balance and skate. We will teach you how to balance first before skating. Fear can be overcome during the learning process

Myth: Listen to you body. . . Don't overstrain your back. . .

isk8ed: Who doesn't have aches? Everyone has aches, the super sportsman has aches too whenever they try to excel and push themselves over the limits. If you stop as soon as it aches, then that is the limit. You should press on a little more. . . a little at a time and you can push your pain back. You will find that after some time the pain comes later and later as you increase your exercise in terms of duration and intensity. And to say the obvious, the heavier you are the more weight you spinal cord has to carry, you are more prone to backaches