Genius hour is an hour to follow your passion and do things that interest you. At Goodrich School in sixth grade we are doing genius hour and I am one of the sixth grade students. For my project I am teaching people how to ride and do tricks on the ripstik. I chose this project for three main reasons. One reason is that I am good at riding the ripstik. I believe I am good because I will ride it to school when I can. To get to school I have to ride up a steep hill a then ride it down a steep hill. You may think that riding down a hill is easy. Not really I mean there is no breaks on the ripstick and you have to not wipe out going down the hill unbalanced with a heavy backpack on. The second reason is it took me a while to learn how to ride it. It was very hard because you are supposed to ride it on flat ground but not all sidewalks are flat. I fell a lot because you have to be able to balance and wiggle the back of the ripstik left to right to go forward and are balancing on the ripstik at the same time. The third reason is that I am also good at doing tricks even though some of them were hard.u
When I started it was hard because I knew I loved doing the ripstik but didn’t know how to approach it at the time. Then I realized that I should do tutorials and trick videos, but I did not know how to do the videos. To fix that I watched a couple of videos and did it sort of like them. Then the problem with that is I did not have a camera man. Unfortunately, my friend Mason’s project did not work out so he was my camera man. After that we realized that we did not have anywhere to post them so we made a YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-AHSWGITtysqVepLumMJ5Q <--click there to visit my channel.
I think this project was definitely a success. I think it turned out great.
When I started it was hard because I knew I loved doing the ripstik but didn’t know how to approach it at the time. Then I realized that I should do tutorials and trick videos, but I did not know how to do the videos. To fix that I watched a couple of videos and did it sort of like them. Then the problem with that is I did not have a camera man. Unfortunately, my friend Mason’s project did not work out so he was my camera man. After that we realized that we did not have anywhere to post them so we made a YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-AHSWGITtysqVepLumMJ5Q <--click there to visit my channel.
I think this project was definitely a success. I think it turned out great.