Teaching adults how to cycle : Sadashivnagar

[Ali Poonawala]

*Sadashivnagar Session 1 st July*

*Learners -14*

*Ongoing 7 learners*

 Sathya ,Heera , Swathi ,Saraswathi,

Meghana, Ashwini , Saida 

*First timers - 7 learner*

Evaan, Piu Modak, Supraja, Sindhu, Shanthi , Mamatha ,Vishnu Priya 

*Trainers 5* 

Dr. Arun , Vijay kumar, Vinod Venkatesh, Arunabha Roy , Suma Arun

1. *Sathya* - 3 rd session and has started pedalling comfortably without losing balance and falling . Will need a little more practice with turning . 

2. *Heera*- Learnt half pedalling today. Riding comfortably. 

3. *Swathi* - 2 nd session.  Continued scooting , improvement in body balance . 

4. *Saraswathi* - 2 nd session .Continued scooting  and also tried to pedal a little . Body balance has improved 

5. *Meghana*- 3 rd session. Continued scooting. Body balance needs correction. Tends to fall on to the right side .  Bike size is a major issue . She needs a smaller size bike. 

6. *Ashvini*- Couldn’t get much of riding time. Bike size is an issue for her as well. 

7. *Saida* - Had been to cubbon park location earlier and wasn’t injured. She is back with a strong intention of learning how to ride . Couldn’t offer her too much riding time as we were short of cycles . 

8. *Evaan* - Newbie - 8 year old boy turned up with his mother ( don’t recollect the name) and a rented bicycle with training wheels. We could not remove them as the front brakes needed to be fixed. He rides comfortably and will be back next week with the training wheels removed. 

9. *Piu Modak *- Newbie- bike size was an issue.. managed to scoot a couple of times. 

10- *Supraja* - Newbie - Learnt how to scoot.. body balancing is quite good. 

11. *Shanthi*

12. *Sindhu* 

Newbies -Mother Daughter duo . Managed to scoot a little. Shanthi had a fall n a small bruise on her left knee . Gave her first aid . Hope she is doing fine. Again shortage of bikes was an issue.

13. * Mamatha *- Newbie- Scooting and body balance needs to improve. Couldn’t get too much riding time.  

14. *Vishnu Priya* - Newbie - Learnt scooting .. body balance is good .

Suma

Lead trainer

BBS Sadashivnagar