Kim Perkins

Specialties: Elite Inline Skate Racing, Beginning Inline Skate Racing, Beginning Skating and Skills development 

Home: Berkeley, California

Client levels accepted: Semi-Custom, Custom, and Consultation - Available for seminars, camps, clinics, and team direction on a contractual basis.

Whether you are preparing for your first race, competing at an elite level or just skating for fun, Kim Perkins can help you improve your speed, get in excellent overall shape and enjoy skating more. Kim particularly enjoys helping clients to get better at hills, solve balance and blister problems, and painlessly increase power by incorporating better form and technique into daily skating. She also teaches specialized racing techniques such as the double push and pack skills.

Kim combines her own real-world knowledge of skate training and racing with the proven training-plan development skills of Wenzel Coaching to prepare Custom, Semicustom and Individual programs tailored to the specific skills required by inline skaters.

Kim came to sports later in life, starting to race at the age of 33. To enter her first races she had to overcome a lifetime of fear of competition and little athletic activity at all. Through dedication and hard work she has become one of the country's top skaters. She has won the Disney Marathon, the Cactus Classic Marathon, the Texas Road Rash Marathon, and is a two-time winner of Athens-to-Atlanta 87-Mile Roadskate -- a race she specializes in preparing skaters for. Having personally experienced what a motivated skater can accomplish, Kim enjoys working with any skater who wants to succeed, whether that success is to be measured in terms of competition or improvement of fitness and skills.

As well as helping skaters with training plans, Kim has plenty of experience in hands-on coaching. For three years she has coached weekend technique workshops across the country and mentored skaters on every level in the Bay Area. She serves on several race organization committees, has coached beginning skaters on the Travel Channel reality TV series "Swimsuit Slimdown," and has a degree in English from Oberlin College.

Sponsored by Bont Skates and racing with Team SAFE, Kim lives in Berkeley, California.

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