What age did you begin to bring your son/daughter to the skate park? My son watches me at the skatepark and is begging me to try out the skatepark. He’s 4. lol. My plan is to wait until he is at least confident without training wheels and can do a small bunny hop on flat ground. I know every child’s growth is different but I’m
Just curious if there’s common age or common skill young kids display that let’s us parents know they’re ready for the skatepark..
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I think you have the right idea. If they need training wheels, they will more than likely just hurt themselves and give up at a park. Plus, if they don’t have decent bike control, you could be putting them in harms way.
I would first show them how to stay out of other people’s way at the park, so no one runs into them. That’s by far the biggest issue at our parks. We see kids get ran over by skaters and bikers because the parents just let their kids circle the park and don’t teach them to be conscious of where they are. You can’t see a 4ft child over a 6ft ramp, yet someone this shocks parents when they get ran over….
Take off the pedals and training wheels to turn it into a balance bike. Training wheels unlearn balance, and he’ll be much more confident. There’s actual a push bike race at one of our local pump track. Kids love it.
Edit: [To answer your question, 2.](https://imgur.com/a/ima3QX4)
Please adjust the bars back more inline with the fork or just barely forward. It will be easier to control while learning. They don’t have to look cool for the sake of less control at this age.
My son asks me about the skatepark at 2 lol
He isn’t even on a balance bike yet. But he goes down small inclines on his little toddler bike. Immy 4 yo has gone to the trails and the skatepark with me.
I’ll be bringing them to the pump track next year when it’s built. But the real answer is you can bring them to the skatepark whenever. It just depends more on timing. Go when it’s off hours (mostly in the mornings).
I’m not a parent, but I started at around three, and I learned mainly by riding a itty bitty pump track and falling. I would say if you want to wait till a certain point, wait till he’s able to comfortably ride standing up and understand the bare basics of how the physics of riding a bike work (as in, don’t stop halfway up a ramp, keep your pedals flat, etc)