Freestyle scootering is no longer just a few tricks on a scooter in front of the house. Over the last twenty years, it has grown into a regular sport with a solid community, competitions, professional riders, and an ever-increasing level of athleticism. Growing right along with it was Scoot School.
In the beginning, there was a simple idea: to pass on to children the experience that the previous generation of riders had to acquire on their own through trial and error. To teach them to ride safely, correctly, and systematically – all while keeping alive the most important thing freestyle scootering has always had: the joy of riding.
Scoot School began to take shape around 2016, when there was virtually no system to explain the basics to a new rider. How do you stand on a scooter correctly? How do you learn your first bunny hop? How do you safely drop in on a radius? How do you progress from a tailwhip to more complex tricks? And most importantly – how do you avoid getting injured unnecessarily and forming bad habits while doing it? Scoot School started precisely as an answer to these questions.
More experienced riders began passing their knowledge on to younger ones. From individual lessons and workshops, a system of regular training sessions gradually emerged, along with a community of children, parents, coaches, and riders. From the start, a principle has applied that we want to preserve for the future:
Scoot School is not meant to raise children who can only recite a series of tricks. It raises riders.
Today, Scoot School is much more than just a trick school. It is a place where riders begin their journey with freestyle scootering, where hobby riders become athletes, and where the next generation of Czech freestyle scootering grows up. New relationships are formed, and a new community is built.
Freestyle is still freestyle
Freestyle scootering has one huge advantage over traditional organized sports.
It is free. There is no single "right" way to ride. Everyone can find their own style, favorite obstacles, and tricks. Some want to compete, others want to ride street, some love big jumps, and some just want to go ride with their friends after school.
Scoot School won't change that. Our goal is not to turn freestyle scootering into another sport where riders stand in a line waiting for a coach's instruction. However, we want to use the best of classic sports training – proper technique, systematic progress, physical preparation, safety, and discipline – and combine it with the freedom, creativity, and community upon which freestyle sports were built.
From the first bunny hop to competitions
A child who has practically never stood on a freestyle scooter can come to Scoot School.
They don't need to know any tricks. That is exactly why the school exists. We start with the absolute basics: correct stance, controlling the scooter, managing the center of gravity, proper riding in a skatepark, how to fall safely, basic jumps, and the first tricks. Once the rider gains confidence, we gradually add more techniques and challenging elements.
For more advanced riders, training is more focused on systematic progress, trick combinations, working with various obstacles, physical preparation, and, depending on their ambitions, competitive scootering.
In addition to group lessons, we also work with individual coaching for riders who want to advance faster or need to address specific aspects of their riding.
Regular training, camps, and workshops
The foundation of Scoot School today is regular training sessions throughout the school year.
Riders are divided according to skill level so they can train in a group that matches their abilities. In addition to regular lessons, we also organize day camps, workshops, and individual lessons.
The home of Scoot School is the Czech Park
A huge step in the development of Scoot School was opening our own facility in the Holešovice Market in Prague. Today, as part of the Gizmania complex, there is the Czech Park – an indoor skatepark built not just for freestyle scootering.
You will find obstacles for complete beginners and advanced riders, a street section, a funbox, big jumps, and training elements like a resi or an airbag, which allow for safer practice of new tricks. This fundamentally changes the training possibilities. We are not dependent on the weather or whether the outdoor skatepark is crowded.
Scoot School doesn't end at the skatepark door
The next step is Online Scoot School, a project by two prominent Czech riders, Marek Rathouský and Tomáš Lorenc, which merged with Scoot School in 2026.
We want to bring the expertise of coaches and riders to those who do not have the opportunity to travel to Prague regularly. Naturally, online lessons can never fully replace a coach standing next to a rider in the skatepark. However, they can very effectively explain the technique of individual tricks, the most common mistakes, the proper learning process, and what a rider should master before moving on to the next element.
Thanks to this, Scoot School can gradually spread its philosophy far beyond the borders of the Czech Park.