{"id":8688,"date":"2009-06-14T21:36:04","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T04:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=8688"},"modified":"2009-06-14T21:36:14","modified_gmt":"2009-06-15T04:36:14","slug":"nycs-uptown-school-of-skate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=8688","title":{"rendered":"NYC&#8217;s Uptown School of Skate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/nyc-skateschool.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/nyc-skateschool.jpg','popup','width=450,height=316,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/nyc-skateschool-tm.jpg\" height=\"140\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Nyc Skateschool\" \/><\/a>For $65 a hour <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jlwdesign.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jennifer Willis<\/a><\/strong> and her younger brother <strong>David<\/strong> will teach anyone in Manhattan (and New Jersey, too) to skateboard. In fact, David claims he can teach a 40 year old to ollie inside an hour with their <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uptownskateschool.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Uptown Skate School<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In an instructional video he shows students, David explains: &#8220;What you&#8217;re going to do is you&#8217;re going to bend your knees, kick down on the tail with your back foot, and slide your front up simultaneously as you jump. &#8230; When you come down, you bend your knees, so that way you have more balance so you can ride it out.&#8221; . . The siblings offer lessons covering the basics of riding to perfecting complicated tricks, and give half-day skateboard tours for $200.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In their first year of business the duo reportedly made $7,500. Sounds like they&#8217;re going to have to franchise.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/money\/2009\/06\/14\/2009-06-14_sister_and_brother_team_gives_skateboarding_.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Daily News<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For $65 a hour Jennifer Willis and her younger brother David will teach anyone in Manhattan (and New Jersey, too) to skateboard. In fact, David claims he can teach a 40 year old to ollie inside an hour with their Uptown Skate School. In an instructional video he shows students, David explains: &#8220;What you&#8217;re going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8689,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8688\/revisions\/8689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}