Skate Day ’09

Skate Day(20-March) is annual SMUX Skating Team event aims to promote skating as a means of transport within SMU campus and at the same time, it also helps to promote a healthy lifestyle. “It’s my day my way” is our marketing campaign message aims to boost awareness and catch interest in skating. Initially, skaters only skate on normal Friday skating session. Skating around the school is not recognized by the school. Skate Day makes skaters eligible traveling around the school on skates everyday(approved by OFM and OSL). Nonetheless, we have to ensure that skaters is proficient is enough to skate around the school without endanger him/herself, public and school properties. Assessment is implemented to test proficiency of every skater. The assessment includes braking, going up and down escalators and stairs and maneuvering (going through obstacles and cones). Skater who fails any of these assessments is not eligible to skate around the school. However, he/she can still skate on Friday skating session at concourse. On Skate Day, all eligible skaters will be skating around in school the whole day. Activities are planned out which include skating tricks and stunts performances and the finale of forming the longest skating chain followed by urban skating.