If you really look around you, in parks, HDB estates& game courts, there are alot people who skate, but not slalom. To most of them, slalom is a difficult sports as you will fall easily... Especially those who have their own family, they can't afford to fall! While, they might be wrong!
That's when preventions have to come in! Here's some advices for you:
- Wear full protective gears - elbow, knee pads, wrist guards. OK, that's very common, but it's really important for those who can't afford to get injured.
- After you got your gears, you MUST LEARN HOW TO FALL SAFELY and practise on your mattress many many times. If you don't know how or, never learn or seen before, DO NOT think that it is easy and assume you know. PLEASE ASK FOR DEMO & LEARN FROM YOUR CURRENT COACHES!!! For your info, there's "skills" called basic and advance falls in inline skating. Safety fall is a MUST-LEARN for beginners.
- Supplements are essential especially for those who are getting older. The basic requirement from skater who are doing slalom is to bend your knees for almost all the times when you are going through the cones except when resting it's optional. So that's when your knee joints need supplements to stay strong for the sports. It is advisable for you to take glucosamine AFTER CONSULTING YOUR DOCTORS.
- If you have old injuries on any part of your legs or spines, I will advise you to consult a doctor on your injuries before you start inline slalom.
- In order to learn the proper techniques for slalom, please get a slalom instructor to guide you. Be prepared that the coaching fees is not going to be like what you got when you started to learn your basic skating.
Slalom is a great sport where you can "maneuver & dance" through few lanes of cones. The goodness of it? Many! It improves your whole body flexibility & coordination. It helps to tone your body. If you practise slalom regularly, your tummy will be reduced!
During my lessons, a few exercises will be introduced for each move according to individual. I will usually plan the lessons according to your needs from the sports. You may request for a one-time lesson but let me tell you, you are going to need more than 10 lessons in order to learn all the basic moves!
Frankly speaking, even my best slalom student is still practising the basic moves!
If you have further enquiries on slalom courses, please contact me at slalom.angel(at)gmail.com. Please replace the "(at)" to "@".
Thank you for reading and wish you well :)
