The UK Inline Skating Association (UKISA) is a UK wide organisation set up in 2002 to better serve recreational inline skating. Whether you are seeking professional training for commercial work or want a lesson with a qualified instructor you have found the right place to improve your skating skills. We aim to help get people skating regardless of age or ability level.
From London to Paris and back again
We launched in June 2002 with a promotion in conjunction with with Eurostar. 200 skaters from the UK were taken to the world’s most famous Friday night skate, the Pari Roller. From the start we promoted safer skating as the entire trip was free to all those wearing a helmet on the London Friday Night Skate, the UK’s largest year round group skate.
Skating instruction suitable for all the family
By the end of 2002 we had qualified over 16 instructors and become an officially registered body with DBS, the Disclosure and Barring Service, the government backed organisation that offers access to Police, Department of Health (DH) and Department for Education and Skills (DfES) records. At a time when child protection has become a hot topic this was also the first time a recreational inline skating organisation in the UK had offered such a service to its instructors and the public