How to teach your child to ride on rollers

1. Make a workout

Despite its apparent simplicity, riding on roller skates - it is quite a big exercise, especially for a child's body. To avoid injury, it is necessary to warm up the muscles and ligaments.

Before each workout a little child should run and jump, crouch and stretch several times.

2. Put on your equipment

Ride without protection in any case impossible. The standard package includes a helmet, elbow pads, knee pads and sleeves. Each element protects against injury when falling the most vulnerable places - the head and limbs.

Helmet required by good defense nape. Elbow pads, knee pads and sleeves should also cover the maximum area of ​​the body, securely fastened and does not fly when you fall.

Some instructors also suggest to use the hockey shorts, ensuring full protection of the hip joint. If you manage to find such bold use.

3. Spent the basic movements without rollers

During the drive to perform movements that are not used in everyday life. Therefore, the child should be well rehearsed them even before they embark on rollers. Preferably on the soft grass in the park or on the carpet at home.

• Sit-ups, jumping on one leg.
• "Bear Bruin" - walking with socks, twisted toward each other, and the heels apart.
• Walking On the socks.
• "Penguin walk" - walking with heels together and toes apart.
• Walking on heels.
• Rolls from toe to heel to transfer the body weight.
• Walking backwards.

All these movements to perform better in an entertaining way that the baby is not bored. For example, to raise soft toys, carry and dump them in the basket.

4. Give your child get used to the rollers

Repeat the movements and exercises from the previous point, but with rollers on the legs. The kid has to feel them.

Train can be at home on the carpet or on the lawn in the park. The main thing - check out the grass on the lack of glass, stones and other objects for which it is better not to fall. The soft coating in the rollers to move harder, so that such an exercise will be further ankle exercise.

Children get tired quickly, so that should be near the bench, and on hand - snack and water. Tired child will not be able to effectively move and exercise will go down the drain.

5. Teach proper rack

Correct posture is very important, it will allow to learn to ride faster and easier.

Ask your child to put rollers parallel to the width of the pelvis, slightly tilt the body slightly forward and bend your knees so that they were about on rollers and shut them when looking from the top down.

Foot can not overwhelm outwardly or inwardly to form the letter «O» and «X». Hands can be omitted or slightly in front of him.

6. Practice to keep balance

Thus it is necessary to maintain proper posture. This can be done at home or on the grass in the park. Let the kid holds for any support with two hands, then one, and then try to stand is not resting.

When a child feels more confident, you can lift one leg or swing from side to side. Most likely, he will fall, but it is not a problem.

7. Teach your child to fall

Fall must-forward, in any case not before. Knees, elbows and hands are protected gear, but the coccyx, back and back of the head - no.

Explain to your child that when balance is lost, it is necessary to bend over to move the center of gravity lower and then a little sit down and gently fall to his knees. It is possible and necessary to mitigate a fallHe is leaning on her elbows and hands, which are protected by gear. In this order: knees, elbows, palms.

In fact, in the proper rack to fall back and never will. But if this happens, take a break and go back to working off the rack.

8. Teach your baby a start

To do this, do the exercise "Flashlight", which boils down to cultivation and note down. As a result, roller wheels describe the figure as a symbol of infinity.

The child has to put heels together and toes apart and slowly spread his legs shoulder-width apart or slightly more. Next, you need to keep the legs and return to starting position. The first phase is the preparatory and the second and repulsion itself occurs. In fact, it is only necessary to allow the feet to depart and arrive several times.

To vary the exercise and make it more fun, put on the ground after a certain distance glasses, stones or other small obstacles. And then the kid will go around them, passing between the legs of the first phase.

9. try to ride

Most likely, this time child already able to travel without assistance.

Recalls that it is necessary to roll, rather than walk. Hold the hand of a safety net, but do not allow to rely. The kid should stand on casters and hold the balance.

10. Learn basic braking

There are several ways to stop, but for newbies easier and safer to use a regular brake-pad or receiving V-stop, which is also called deceleration "plow".

Built-in brake - a small plastic nashlopka on the right clip. To use it, you need to transfer the weight to the left leg and the right to put forward a bit and slowly lean the heel to the contact with the asphalt.

For braking "plow" should be diluted legs wider, bending rolls inward, and then move the weight on the heel and toes expand towards each other to form a foot of the letter V.

11. Learn how to turn

At first, the kids just turn on a dime, making small steps. To turn on the move it is important to feel the speed. If you go too fast or slow, you can fall.

To turn need a little sit down, put one foot forward and move on her weight, and then set the movement of the body and shoulders, turn in the right direction. Thus it is necessary to move smoothly and without jerks.

More on that note

• Find a suitable place for skiing away from the traffic and crowds.
• Label the border of the site, for which the child does not have to call. Otherwise, he rolled away too far and can not hear you.
• Be patient. All children are different, and the learning process can take anywhere from several days to several months.
• Do not forget to cheer and to praise child, even if it does not work.
• You do not raise your voice and do not take it out on the kid. He should think of learning as a fun game, not as a punishment.