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The Berkeley was one of several ferryboats of the Southern Pacific Railroad that operated on San Francisco Bay between the Oakland Pier and the San Francisco Ferry Building for sixty years. Built in 1898 by the Union Iron Works of San Francisco, she served after the 1906 earthquake, ferrying refugees across the bay to Oakland.
The Berkeley was in regular service from 1898 to the spring of 1958, when she was taken out of service for repairs. She never returned to service, as Southern Pacific decided to end all ferry service on July 29, 1958. The Berkeley was put up for sale, and was purchased by the Golden Gate Fishing Company to be used as a whaling processing facility. Before she was put to this use, however, she was sold to ferryboat enthusiast and businessman Bill Conover. Conover had the Berkeley docked in Sausalito, a small town on the Bay in Marin County, and converted her into a gift shop called “Trade Fair”. However, the Berkeley was not well-maintained in her gift shop…

Berkeley CA

OUR SKATE INSTRUCTORS

James B. from Richmond, California!

James has 25 years of experience skateboarding and 5 years in the skateboard retail industry. His motto is, “Safety first” and be prepared to have fun”! James is currently teaching his 4-year-old niece how to skateboard. James’s niece loves his fun style of learning and skating. That’s why he wants to teach your children too!

Jason H. from Lafayette, California!

Jason is the leading skate instructor for Go Skate in the East Bay. He teaches at most of the skateparks including Walnut Creek, Berkeley, San Ramon, Alameda, and more. Jason has experience teaching private lessons, group lessons, demos, and birthday parties. He has taught Go Skate for several years. Jason comes with a recommendation from the CEO of Go skate. Jason is from Utah and has given some lessons out in Utah. Jason is mostly a bowl skater who can teach speed and flow. All stock tricks and a few flip tricks (toe-heel).

Discover Skateboarding in a Week-Long School

Rob Dunfey, GoSkate.com’s founder and a professional skateboarder, makes videos for aspirants and enthusiasts who want to be a professional skateboarder someday. These YouTube videos are posted on YouTube for free! But if you want a more detailed guideline, you can visit http://www.tricktutor.com. Here’s an exercise for skateboarders who haven’t mastered Ollie yet. These exercises are guaranteed helpful in improving your entire body’s coordination that is needed to ace all the tricks you have to do during skateboarding. Watch the video and visit a nearby parking lot so as to practice. Rest assured that you will be able to have a better grasp on how to do your Ollie the next time you try. Berkeley California skateboard lessons

What will you learn?

 
  • Safety Techniques
  • Proper Stance
  • How to Ride and Push
  • How to Turn
  • How to Stay Steady Going Down Hills
  • How to Ride Ramps
   

Who we Serve:

 
  • Ages: 4 through 104
  • Ability: Beginner through Competition-Style Advanced.
   

How to Start:

 
  • Equipment: We recommend a board and a full set of safety gear. This includes: a helmet, elbow pads, knee pads, and wrist guards. Rental equipment is available.
  • Location: We can do lessons in your driveway, in your garage, or at the Berkeley skate park.

Locations for Skateboarding Lessons in Berkeley, CA

Become a professional skateboarder with the guidance of GoSkate.com’s skilled tutors. Our skateboarding lessons in Berkeley, CA may be held in garages, driveways, parking lots and skate parks, wherever is much convenient to our student. For novice and children, we prefer conducting skateboarding lessons just near their place until they have understood all the basic techniques. Once the student is ready for a bigger space and complex tricks, we can later on visit a skate park within Berkeley. Located in Harrison Park, Berkeley Skate Park is an 18,000 square foot outdoor location where intermediate and professional skateboarders can master all the tricks through their smoothly created concrete obstacles. The park is open 7 days a week, from 8:00 AM to 9:00 PM. They have fun boxes, bowls and so on. They are strict when it comes to protection so it is best to bring your helmet and other safety gears if you want to visit the park.  

Berkeley CA Skateboard Lessons

Berkeley California skateboard lessons Skateboarding lessons in Berkeley, CA is offered to enthusiasts and aspirants who are ages 4 years and up. You can join our one-week long lesson and can move forward if you want to know more about the sport. Our tutors have been in the industry for over 14 years, therefore, you are guaranteed that you will learn all the proper methods. GoSkate.com is a reputable business that has been featured in several magazines and TV shows such as Fox News, ESPN, Yahoo Sports and more. Contact us now for a phone assessment. Just fill up the form below so that one of our representatives can contact you as soon as possible.  

Meet Rob — Your Personal Helper/Instructor for Skateboard Lessons

Rob is a competitive, sponsored skateboarder. He has been teaching for nine years, has taught hundreds of lessons, and is ready to help YOU!      

Berkeley MO

Improve Your Skateboarding in a 7 Day Class

Skateboarding is a pastime activity, a work of art, or a method of transportation. Skateboarding has been designed and influenced by many skateboarders throughout the ages. A 2002 report by American Sports Data found that there were 18.5 million skateboarders in the world. 85 percent of skaters polled had used a board in the most recent year were under the age of eighteen, and 74 % were male. Those numbers have have doubled since the time of the study. In the following years the physical locations of skate parks tripled making skateboarding more accessible as privately owned skate parks and indoor skate parks are becoming a reality.

The most significant change has been the developed generation that skated in their youth and have grown up with the “X” Games explosion into the worldwide mainstream of competitive sports and now sees it as a participation sport or art for their children as led by X-Games Athletes who are affiliated and instruct for our brand and web site.

Do you want to learn skateboarding?

Understand all of the fundamentals of skateboarding fast in a one-week camp. We will teach you the basics of skateboarding such as how to balance, push, turn, proper foot placement, and how to stop. Regardless, of where you are at.. you can benefit from personalized instruction to meet your current skill level.

Berkeley Missouri skateboard lessons

What will you learn?

  • Safety Techniques
  • Proper Foot position
  • How to Ride and Push
  • How to Turn
  • How to Stay Steady Going Down Hills
  • How to Ride Ramps
  • How to do Tricks

    Who we Serve:

  • Ages: 4 through 104
  • Ability: Beginner through Competition-Style Advanced.

    How to Start:

  • Equipment: We recommend a board and a full set of safety gear. This includes: a helmet, elbow pads, knee pads, and wrist guards. Rental equipment is available.
  • Location: We can do lessons in your driveway, in your garage, or at the Berkeley skate park.

    Berkeley MO Skateboard Lessons





    Berkeley Missouri skateboard lessons
    Skateboarding-Lessons of Berkeley was developed to help motivated youth demographic that wants to participate in the lifestyle and skilled regiment of skate boarding. We take great pride in helping people of all ages learn how to skateboard.

    Goskate.com is passionate in it’s desire to provide the means through it’s Skate School lessons to being a confident skateboarder, by providing the premiere school for all ages and abilities throughout Missouri.



    Meet Allan & Regine — Your Personal Helpers for Skateboard Lessons

    Skateboarding is our life. We want to make it your passion as well. Join us in a skateboard lesson so we can teach you the benefits of the lifestyle!