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StudySphere Award of Excellence

The Get Rolling Inline Skating Web site was recently selected as one of the best educational resources on the Web by StudySphere, whose goal is to identify and share the finest sites on the Internet as free education resources.

The folks at StudySphere use a combination of intelligence-based search technology along with old-fashioned human intelligence to categorize and present a catalog of information-rich educational resources for students, teachers and parents. Visitors can explore over 100,000 research-quality, child-safe web sites with an easy-to-use index that provides logical navigation paths to both highly-targeted and related information.

It’s an honor to display the StudySphere award on the Get Rolling home page!

Sports and Recreational Activities

For the third consecutive edition, Liz Miller has contributed the Inline Skating chapter in this college text book updated every two years.  The Fourteenth Edition contains a condensed, 15-page version of Get Rolling, the Beginner’s Guide to Inline Skating. Since it’s geared toward future instructors, Chapter 16 begins with readers’ objectives and ends with Teaching Strategies and Considerations, not found in Get Rolling. The chapter is completed with a detailed Glossary and Resources section.

Available on Amazon.com as a large-format paperback book, Sports and Recreational Activities was compiled for McGraw Hill by authors Dale Mood, Frank Musker, and Judith Rink. To quote Amazon’s Book Description:

This comprehensive text offers fundamental information on forty-two different sports and recreational activities. Up-to-date material includes an overview of all aspects of the sport, including history, equipment, rules, fundamental skills, techniques, etiquette, strategy, teaching considerations, leadup games, and reference materials, including videos. This textbook can be used effectively by participants, instructors, and instructors-to-be.

And yes, I did list the web sites of skating colleagues and organizations in my Resources appendix!

Other August 2006 Stories

Inline Mastery Ladder - Find your rung (physical capabilities) on my new learning ladder and learn how to climb to the top.

Technique: Scissors Coast - Proper respect for the one building skill that every skater needs the most and then takes for granted forever after.

Treat Your Feet - Tips to help you treat tired or crampy feet and lower legs after a long day on wheels, plus advice for pain prevention.

Skating with Nordic Poles - Triathlete Joshua Delucca Colon describes his journey learning a new way to cross train for endurance events.  

Growing Young Before Her Time - Brigitte plans to celebrate her 50th birthday at the local skate park, doing what she loves best, hammering the half pipes.

Point Isabel Trail in Richmond, CA - Tracing the San Francisco Bay shoreline, this bike trail offers views of the Golden Gate Bridge with whirling pelicans and seagulls overhead.

Review: eZeefit Ankle booties may just be exactly the accessory you need for your favorite human-powered sports.

Skater Crossing - Online destinations where skaters congregate and find information.

Mini Survey: Non-reversing Skate Wheels - Maybe they aren’t so crazy after all!