Safe skating is a snap,
when you remember to SLAP!

1. Skate Smart

• Always wear your protective gear—helmet, wrist protection, elbow pads, knee pads
• Master the basics—striding, stopping, and turning
• Keep your equipment in proper safe working order, inspect it regularly for loose bolts, etc.

2. Skate Legal

• Obey all traffic regulations. When on skates, you should consider yourself to be subject to the same obligations as a pedestrian, a bicyclist, or the driver of an automobile

3. Skate Alert

• Skate under control at all times
• Watch out for road hazards
• Avoid water, sand, broken pavement, and oily patches 
• Avoid traffic

4. Skate Polite

• Always yield to pedestrians
• Skate on the right, pass on the left
• Announce your intentions to pass by shouting, "passing on your left"
• When in a group, let others behind you know if you are "stopping" or "slowing"
• Skate 'single file' to give others room to pass safely