Ian’s school does a bike rodeo each spring where all the students bring their bikes to school and practice their skills on obstacles in the school parking lot. Each student is graded on their performance and the highest scoring student in each grade wins a prize. The bike rodeo is a great way to encourage bike safety/skills and encourage healthy exercise.
Ian was pretty much the only kid in his class that rode without training wheels and was at a disadvantage when they did scoring (they docked points for putting his feet on the ground and not staying within the lines). I was super proud of how he did – particularly when you consider he’d only been riding without training wheels for less than 2 weeks!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EzPQhhd97M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSdVFw-atmM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMibsj8iKEo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk7F6ZIljgY
(EDIT: I can’t for the life of me figure out how to get videos to embed in my blog. I will figure it out some day but probably not this month. For now, gotta do it kind of old school. Sorry!)