by KJM | 15 Jul, 2016 | In Fitness & In Health, Instructor Life
From Freshmeat to Badass (as I like to call it, even though I’m still nowhere close to being a badass on quad skates) I got an email a couple of days ago with my result. I’m still in shock; the good kind! I really did think I was skilled enough to advance....
by KJM | 13 Jul, 2016 | In Fitness & In Health, Instructor Life
From Fresh to Crustymeat And just like that, all 10 weeks of freshmeat training are over. I didn’t report back on weeks 8 and 9 simply because we used those two weeks to practise all our skills in preparation for week 10’s minimum skills assessment....
by KJM | 26 Jun, 2016 | Instructor Life
The Tenderiser Wow! Seven weeks done already. The sessions have been rolling by quickly. So far, week seven has been the best week! Of course, without all the previous weeks, week seven wouldn’t even be possible. This week’s skills conssited of...
by KJM | 12 Jun, 2016 | Instructor Life
The Legendary Life-Lesson Week six was full-on legendary with a sprinkle of fright. First, we learned to skate backwards. Having already learned to ice skate backwards in my youth, this skill went from rusty to confident pretty quickly. Then the scary...
by KJM | 9 Jun, 2016 | Instructor Life
Short & Sweet That’s what I call week five of Freshmeat. We had a slightly shorter session this week and we didn’t get around to learning how to skate backwards. However, we did get to practice our other skills a lot: gliding on one skate,...
