Frequently Asked Questions
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What is street surfing? Is it a board, an activity or what?
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Is it just a toy?
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Is it a fad? How long before appeal wears off?
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Why street surfing and not skateboarding?
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I can see the appeal for schools by the sea, but my lot are city kids miles from the sea, what use is this to them? They won't get the point.
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Why in school time? Things like skateboarding and heelies children learn in their own time.
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What would parents say if they knew their child was doing risky sport?
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What can it actually teach? Enjoyment is all well and good, but my role as a teacher means education is my priority.
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Is it like surfing or snowboarding? How? Where's the water or mountain?
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It looks too hard, I can't skateboard let alone 2 wheels, what about the pupils?
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Looks good, but how can I teach this? What's my role- I don't want to embarrass myself.
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What about serious sports like football and rugby, let alone the Olympics? I don't want to have excellent wave boarders but no champions.
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Does this cost more than other sports, what reason is there to trial it?
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So my pupils get a taster session, then what?
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How is that on the curriculum? How can I teach it, let alone assess it? Why make life hard?
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Someone is going to do themselves an injury, I'm not going to be the one people point a finger at.
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What if it breaks?
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What's your involvement with the activity?
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What insurance, risk assessments, qualifications, certificates, policies do you have?
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What research has been done to prove any of this? Case studies, Higher education help?
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What surface can it be used on?
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Can it be used in the wet? Winter?
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How many participants?
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How old?
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How long is the course? How long is a session?
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How quickly do people learn?
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How do we get trained? Is the training CPD / assessor approved?
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How do I order equipment, what is the cost? Delivery time?
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Do you run clubs? Can we hire equipment?
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What protection, clothing is required?
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How do we keep updated on lessons, etc?
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Our school has children with behavioural problems, is the activity suitable?
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Our school has children with balance coordination difficulties, is this activity out of scope, can we expect any benefits?
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I am organising a fortnight of healthy activities can you come along for a one off?
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Where / how can I get funding?
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I'm not a school, but coordinate initiatives / activities with youth clubs, etc, how can we get involved?
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I know we are remote but I know just the person who could help coach this, can we get started?
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The taster session was fantastic, I was amazed by some of my pupils, they have never been so enthusiastic about PE, how can I make this long term?
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I'm very interested in what you're doing can we contribute anything, do a project?
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My pupils are getting excellent, and we are teaching at KS3 and 4, are there schemes of work, attainment levels to follow?
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My pupils are expressing an interest in becoming leaders for the activity, are there any ways we can achieve this?
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Will you attend our conference this year? All the heads of sport will be there, can you do a workshop, I'm sure you'll be popular.
