This school opens with three categories for children and young people between 6 and 14 years old.
The Maspalomas Bike Project cycling school opens its doors as the first in the municipality of San Bartolomé de Tirajana, a club aimed at educating in values and promoting sport among the little ones.
This cycling school will receive children and young people between 6 and 14 years old in the Parque Sur and surrounding areas, with training in the hands of professionals in this discipline. Among the instructors, Blas Rivero stands out, several times champion of Gran Canaria in Mountain Bike, winner in Fuertebike and podium in Fudenas, as well as Naomi Abrante representing women's cycling.
The club will be organized into three categories to accompany cycling lovers from their first few meters on the bike to adolescence, with courses for younger, younger and children under the motto "a cycling school and a school of values for the little ones." ”,
'Maspalomas Bike Project' is based on three fundamental pillars: promoting sports practice and healthy, regular and dosed physical activity in young people; develop personal skills and attitudes, in order to promote a culture of effort, self-esteem, responsibility and the spirit of improvement; and instill social values of teamwork, promoting collaboration, commitment and good coexistence among playmates.
Three categories to create cycling promises
The initial modality of benjamines or 'promises' is designed for boys and girls between 6 and 9 years old, extendable to any other child of another age who does not know how to ride a bike. The objective is for participants to learn to ride a bicycle, become familiar with bicycle handling and develop their body scheme, general dynamic coordination and perceptual qualities through games, with which reaction speed will be worked on and They will begin the development of aerobic resistance.
In addition, they will learn basic cycling concepts such as the use of brakes, passive and active safety, handling of gears, and they will learn to use them in the different terrains of cycling, on land and asphalt. In addition, they will learn sports, hygienic and healthy habits, about bike maintenance and how to take care of the material and help their partner.
In the Beginner / Alevín category (10-12 years old), the school will seek to improve the body scheme and physical capabilities (aerobic resistance, reaction speed, general dynamic coordination, strength, and flexibility), individual technique and introduce tactical aspects specific to the cycling such as relays, demarrajes, riding a wheel, through games and exercises with the bicycle. Participants will be able to learn more about bike mechanics, urban circulation and traffic signs, prohibited spaces and spaces intended for group cyclists.
For Infant participants (13-14 years old) there will be practical training to improve performance and physical condition, individual technique through real situations, tactics and techniques that occur in cycling, with the aim of enhancing mechanisms of perception, analysis , decision and execution necessary to respond to any given situation. In this stage, participants will increase their autonomy, improve the basic principles of training, the measurement tools (Fr C, cadence) and the habits necessary to continue developing as athletes and people.
They will also be able to safely start on routes adapted to their age, perfect urban and interurban circulation, and learn and practice prevention actions and implementation of active and passive safety measures on the bicycle, and also develop knowledge about the mechanics and maintenance of bicycles. the bike.
A sport on the rise
Cycling adds more fans and professionals every year, as it is an outdoor sport that can be practiced as a family, and has proven benefits on physical and mental health, in addition to being a low-impact sport that can be done anywhere. class of people, even with injuries or overweight, and help strengthen muscles, the cardiovascular system, lung capacity, and release stress.
During the pandemic, cycling has been one of the sports that has grown the most, with more than 700 new users who have hopped on the bike to enjoy the advantages of this discipline during the health crisis.