Friday Night Skate

What: Friday Night Skate in West Carmel, about 6 to 9.7 mile depends upon your capability, slow pace

When: Friday 7:00 PM leave (Please arrive at 6:50 PM) 

Where: Creekside Middle School Parking lot

Who: Beginner, intermediate and advanced skaters in the inline skate class.

Route: (see the map below)    https://goo.gl/maps/hEju3dUyr5R2VEeB9

This route has been checked, we will skate on sidewalk, the risk is low for most of intermediate inline skaters. （above link works on PC, but may not work on android phone)

Notes：

1. Helmet and protection gears are required. 

2. Parent can ride a bike and follow the team, please do not ride bike in the team.

3. The skaters please skate between the skater leader and sweeper. If you need to quit, please let the sweeper know. 

Road Skate Safety Rules

1. Keep all skater in a group.  Please skate between the leader and the sweeper, don't overtake the leader, don't get behind the sweeper. To quit before finish, please notify the sweeper.

2. The team leader must stop and wait for all skaters before crossing the road, make sure safe and command the crossing in a unified manner. Do not let the children cross the road by themselves.

3. If there are unsafe factors, verbally remind others. For example: "Car back!", "Car up!", "Rough road!", "Gravel!"

4. Keep right and skate inline. If a vehicle overtakes, please skate in the safest way to ensure that you will not suddenly fall. Do not skate in the opposite lane without the permission of the skate leader. If the skaters are blocking traffic for a long time, please stop to the side of the road to give way to the vehicles.

5. When going down big hill, please control the speed appropriately.

6. Skate politely and make way for pedestrians. Please don't compete with pedestrians. If you encounter pedestrians or vehicles giving way, please express gratitude. 

刷街安全规则

1. 一个整体，统一行动。小朋友请在领队与扫尾之间滑行，不要超越领队，不要落后扫尾。中途退出，请通知扫尾。

2. 领队要在过马路前停下等齐，确认安全，统一指挥过马路，不要让小朋友自主过马路。

3. 发现有不安全的因素，口头提示他人。例如：“Car back!”，”Car up!”，”Rough road!”,  ”Gravel!”

4. 尽量靠右侧，排队前进，如遇车辆超越，请以最安全的方式滑行，确保不会突然摔倒。未经领队允许，不要到对面车道滑行。如果队伍长时间大量堵车，请停到路边给车让路。

5. 下大坡时，请适当控制速度。

6. 礼貌滑行，为行人让路。请不要与行人抢路。如遇到行人或车辆让路，请表达谢意。

Kids Inline Skating 周五刷街历史

柳暗花明又一村

West Carmel Friday Night Skate

Lincheng Xiu, May 12,2018

2018年5月11日，周五，是一个值得纪念的日子，这一天我们确定了9.7mile 长的周五刷街线路。12个人，从在这条线路上第一次正式刷过，表明我们“玉米地”村，也拥有了大都市才有的“周五刷街”活动，而且质量一点不逊色。

    “刷街”是一个很无奈的词，却生动形象地表达了在街上或路上轮滑及所带来的喜悦。说它无奈，是因为它听上去很“土”，但表达的意思却是如此的“洋”气，以至于任何正规的词，在它面前都显得暗然失色，都难以表达刷街的真正含意。

FNS - Friday Night Skate，周五刷街，是一个专用名词，地球村轮滑爱好者都知道。工作了一周，周五晚上出来放松一下，不用担心第二天晚起，滑友相遇，尽情拉风。很多年之前，我曾将周五刷街概括为：“有一定运动量的街头社交活动”，赢得掌声许多。

地球村大，我们村小，想弄个FNS出来，做梦吧！你还别说，梦想有时候还真的会成真，这不，就发生在我们“玉米地”村，是不是很传奇？局外人一定会这么想。只有知道内幕的人，才会认为这是历史的必然。

将所谓的不可能，变成可能，历来是我们“玉米地”村人的特长，就说这个FNS吧，N年前那是绝对好几次的不可能。结果呢？我们村里办起了一个小朋友的轮滑班，班里人数从当年的1个人，变成第二年的两个人，第三年7个人…，N年之后，我们不得不限制人数39人以内，并将这个班变成三个小班，轮换场地上课。斗转星移，最初的那批两三岁的小孩，转眼之间，变成了九岁上下的小学生，轮滑技术与日俱增，问津比赛已有可能，FNS那是小菜一碟，所谓万事俱备，只欠东风。

要说这东风还真不是等来的，是被逼出来的。连续两年春天，轮滑班报名火爆，原本是好事儿，但村里师资有限，没法扩大教学规模。大孩子虽然长大了，但仍然想回来上课，你能不让他们报名？而年龄小的弟弟妹妹，早早地已在轮滑课旁边摩拳擦掌，自学成才，轮滑课的七八成内容，早已自己搞定，就等着达到报名的年龄了。大一点的小孩不动，后来的小孩猛劲往里挤，长此以往，可想而知。怎么办呢？FNS就是在这种情况下被逼出来的。

FNS不是个刷街吗？与轮滑课报名没有联系啊。任何事物都是有联系的，你想想，FNS是中级水平，对大一点的孩子肯定有吸引力，想快速提高，FNS是首选啊，一次FNS大约相当于三到四次轮滑课的训练量，如果来刷街已经花了一个晚上时间，还要不要再花另外一个晚上来上初级班的轮滑课呢？这是一个需要考虑的问题。现在的小孩忙啊，N多课外班，家长恨不得让他们一周上20个课外班，轮滑能占两天晚上？果真如此，轮滑将受宠若惊啊，你的小孩也一定是酷爱轮滑，天生我才，应成大器。

FNS基本上不占教练资源，一般家长骑车就可以领着玩，只要滑够一定有距离，就会有进步。另外，FNS不限人数，越多越火，滑的越起劲，不信就去看看巴黎的周五刷街，上万人！我们村的周五刷街绝对不与巴黎比数量，我们以质量取胜。

   这次周五刷街的12个人是随机抽选的，属于试滑，主要是考察线路安全性及线路长度是否合适，日后的人数是多少呢？等着瞧吧。

引用一句听起来很耳熟的话做为结束语：“刷街是宣言书，刷街是宣传队，刷街是播种机”。轮滑班报名人数太多的问题，让我们感到了“山穷水尽疑无路”，而周五刷街则是“柳暗花明又一村”。

Willows are dim and flowers are bright again in another village

West Carmel Friday Night Skate

Lincheng Xiu, May 12,2018

On May 11, 2018, Friday, was a day worth commemorating. On this day, we established a 9.7-mile-long Friday skating route. With 12 people officially skating on this route for the first time, we showed that our "cornfield" village also had the "Friday Night Skate" activity that only metropolitan areas have, and the quality was not inferior.

"Brushing street" is a very helpless term, but it vividly expresses the joy of skating on the street or road. It is said to be helpless because it sounds very "rustic," but the meaning it conveys is so "foreign" that any formal term pales in comparison and is unable to express the true meaning of "skating on street"

FNS - Friday Night Skate, is a specific term that roller skating enthusiasts around the world are familiar with. After a week of work, on Friday night, you can come out and relax without worrying about waking up late the next day, meet skating friends, and have a good time. Many years ago, I summed up Friday Night Skate as a "street social activity with a certain amount of exercise," and it received a lot of applause.

The world is big, and our village is small. Dreaming of having an FNS? That's impossible! But you know what? Sometimes dreams really do come true, and it happened in our "Cornfield" village. Isn't that legendary? Outsiders must think so. Only those who know the inside story will believe that this is the inevitable result of history.

Transforming the so-called impossible into a possibility has always been a specialty of our "Cornfield" village people. Let's talk about this FNS. Years ago, it was absolutely impossible several times. What was the result? We started a roller skating class for children in our village, which started with one student in the first year, then two students in the second year, and seven students in the third year... After several years, we had to limit the class size to 39 students and divided the class into three groups, rotating class locations. With the passage of time, the first batch of two or three-year-old children have grown into elementary school students around the age of nine, with their roller skating skills improving day by day. Participating in competitions is now possible, and FNS is just a piece of cake. As the saying goes, everything is ready except for the east wind.

To say that the east wind was not simply awaited, but was forced to come is true. For two consecutive springs, the enrollment for the roller skating class was so popular that it became a problem. While this may seem like a good thing, the village had limited teaching resources and could not expand the class size. The older children, even though they had grown up, still wanted to come back and take classes. How could you refuse them? And the younger siblings were already eagerly waiting next to the roller skating class, practicing on their own and mastering about 70 to 80 percent of the class material, just waiting to reach the age to enroll. With the older children not leaving and the younger ones constantly pushing in, the situation was unsustainable. What could be done? That's when FNS was forced into existence.

Isn't FNS just a street skating event? What does it have to do with roller skating class enrollment? Everything is connected. Think about it. FNS is an intermediate-level event that would surely attract the older children who want to improve quickly. One FNS night is equivalent to the training of three to four roller skating classes. If they already spent an evening skating at FNS, would they want to spend another evening taking a beginner's roller skating class? This is something to consider. Nowadays, children are so busy with numerous extracurricular classes that parents want them to attend up to 20 classes a week. Will they have time for roller skating two evenings a week? If they do, then roller skating will be a pleasant surprise. Your child will surely love it and perhaps become a great skater.

FNS doesn't really require coaching resources, and parents can just ride along and have fun. As long as they skate enough distance, there will be progress. Additionally, FNS doesn't limit the number of people, and the more people that join, the more exciting it becomes. Just look at Paris's Friday night street skating with over 10,000 people! Our village's Friday night street skating may not have as many people as Paris, but we win with quality.

The 12 people for this Friday night street skating were randomly selected and were just a trial run. The main focus was to assess the safety and length of the route. How many people will show up in the future? Let's wait and see.

To conclude with a familiar quote: "Street skating is a declaration, street skating is a propaganda team, street skating is a sowing machine." The roller skating class registration problem made us feel like we were at our wit's end, but Friday night street skating is our new hope.

Notes:

The literal translation of "柳暗花明又一村" is "willows are dim and flowers are bright again in another village," but it's often used as an idiomatic expression to describe a situation where there's a sudden turn for the better. A possible translation of the sentence containing the phrase could be:

"The problem of too many sign-ups for the roller skating class made us feel like we were at our wits' end, but the West Carmel Friday Night Skate turned things around and gave us hope again."

周五刷街防疫指南

Covid19期间，凡参加周五刷街（或其它轮滑活动）者，请严格遵循以下原则：

1. 保持2米社交距离（6ft)

活动前，滑行中，中间休息及结束时，请保持2米社交距离。更不要有任何身体接触；

1. 自带水瓶

水瓶请自己带在身上，不要让除家人之外的其他人携带或代管。

1. 避免飞味传染

咳嗽或打喷嚏时，请肘内侧阻挡飞味。建议在不影响运动情况下，或在非运动时间段（如中间休息时），尽量戴口罩。

1. 避免触摸公共设施

活动开始前，中间休息或结束后，尽量不要触摸公共设施，例如，走道扶手，门把手，座椅等。

1. 监测体温及血氧

活动之前，请尽量自已在家里测量，高出正常体温2F度，或血氧低于95%，请自动在家隔离，直到恢复正常。

1. 以下情况，请在家隔离两周后再参加活动：

1)  最近两周内，接触过Covid19感染者

2) 最近两周内，去过外地，特别是乘坐飞机者

3) 家庭成员中感染或疑似感染Covi19者

1. 以下情况，请在家隔离2周以上并咨询医生:

曾感染过Covid19，刚刚恢复者。

1. 以下情况，请勿参与活动

正在治疗的Covid19感染及疑似感染者。

(7/13/2020起草)

4/17/2021

2021年第一次周五刷街总结。

Lincheng Xiu, 4/17/2021

在轮滑课建立10周年之际，4月16日晚上，我们迎来了轮滑课小朋友的2021年第一次周五刷街，40多人，包括小朋友和家长，参加了本次刷街，沿着传统的周五刷街9.7Mile线路一圈，历时约一个半小时，晚上8:43，活动顺利结束。

周五晚7点前后，在Creekside中学教工停车场统一强调了轮刷街注意事项之后，一大队小朋友及家长从creekside中学教工停车场出发，滑上了126街的人行道，大约0.5Mile之后，后面报告有小朋友摔倒，擦破了点皮，队伍暂停，问题解决后继续前进。 

West park东侧的小区是第一个休息点，原计划在这里分成两组，结果发现大部分的小朋友基本都能跟上。我们决定不分组继续前进，直到必须分组的时候再说。

第2个休息点是在116跟Towne东南角上的小区西门。这个小区有一个1Mile的环路，没有交通，路面非常好，最前面的4个A组小朋友把速度提了起来，看后面的小朋友速度有多快，在快滑的过程中，后面的小朋友表现的都相当出色。

过马路大部分小朋友都没有问题，领队扫尾和巡逻非常给力，控制的井井有条，个别小朋友在过马路时摔倒，但都没有受伤，这是我们预计的，这些小朋友需要做一些专项训练。

大约滑到6mile的地方第5个休息点附近，因为天色已晚，8:15，临时决定将原来的一个组分成两个组，让速度稍微慢的小朋友超近路（总长度从原计划的9.7降到了约8mile）回终点。8个滑的比较快的小朋友 ，A组4个，B组4个，选择继续滑完全程9.7mile，晚上8:43，回到 Creekside中学教工停车场，全程用时大约1小时35分钟，比往年的1小时20分钟略长，考虑到是今年第1次，基本正常。

第一次来的小朋友，表现不错，特别是有3位新来的小朋友滑完了全程，再接再厉。有几个小朋友中途退出，希望不要气馁，找出原因，有针对性训练，争取早日成为优秀的轮滑爱好者。

感谢各位跟队的家长，感谢各位领队和扫尾以及A组的4个小朋友配合。感谢Cheny的协调组织工作并提供保障车。2021年应该是人类挑战后的机遇之年，希望我们共同努力抓住机遇，把我们的轮滑生态环境建得更好，让更多的小朋友远离网络，手机，游戏和屏幕，多到室外参加运动，让下一代变得更加健康，阳光，向上！