Hello. A simple question: do you skate, or are you a skater?
I’m Lex — skate instructor, local private guide, and storyteller in Amsterdam and its countryside.
Four-language private local skate guide and organizer for Amsterdam and beyond, including Texel, Friesland, and the (pretty unknown) flower bulb region above Amsterdam.
Skate•A•Round tailor-made experiences, combining mini workshops, excursions and skate lessons by an IISA-certified skate instructor in Amsterdam and beyond.
Private skate tours with mini workshops in Dutch |
Private skate coaching and lessons in Dutch
Customized skate tours with mini workshops and stories in urban and rural Amsterdam
Skate instructor and local guide in Amsterdam (and beyond) combined! As both an experienced skate instructor AND a local private guide, I combine these two professions in entertaining and educational sightseeing skate tours through Amsterdam and its surrounding countryside.
The skate tours take place in Amsterdam itself (or at a car-free skate hotspot), in the surrounding countryside (such as rural Amsterdam North / Waterland-East, the beach or Zaanse Schans), around the tulip fields north of Alkmaar (during spring), on Texel and even in Friesland if you would like to experience the history of the famous Eleven Cities.
By the way: Are you already comfortable skating on public streets? For these tours you should be reasonably streetwise on skates. (During the tour you’ll naturally improve even more.) How about you? And your skating partner(s)?
If not, we’ll simply choose one of Amsterdam’s excellent car-free skate locations instead. See the examples on the right and below.
An example in 2026 (and 2025)
Lex’s blog post about Amsterdam as a great skate city has been published on Skatefresh.com.
This August we welcomed our partner Skatefresh back to Amsterdam. We explored the city together, skated many kilometres and even crossed the IJ on one of Amsterdam’s mini ferries — a completely new experience for many participants.
Thank you, Asha, for your lovely compliment!
And here is Asha’s and Lex’s announcement for Amsterdam Skate Weekend 2026 (August 7-9).
Private skate tours in the city
I’ll teach you advanced skating techniques while showing you the city at the same time. Tours range from 5 to 20 km and last up to half a day. Expect plenty of smooth tarmac—although, as in any city, never 100%. ;)
€288.88 for up to 8 people (including 21% Dutch VAT).
Just one or two of you? Or would you prefer a shorter tour? Simply send me a message and I’ll prepare a tailor-made skating experience. Looking for a full-day adventure? Same procedure. ;)
My full-day fee for 2026, including tour design, Amsterdam advice, organisation and guiding, is €444 (including 21% Dutch VAT), based on a maximum of 12 participants.
Prices exclude skate rental, public transport, drinks and lunch. (Need to rent skates in Amsterdam? Just ask.)
If it rains, we simply switch to a bike tour (or perhaps a footbike?). A quality rental bike costs approximately €16.50 for three hours.
I’ve also created a sample map of one of my private skate tours with mini workshops.
New opportunities with excellent tarmac and beautiful scenery include Beach Island, the new cycling boulevards, both sides of the IJ River and the Weespertrekvaart.
A custom-made sporty experience in Amsterdam and beyond: We are Flexy and we know it.
The (L)exception: not a private Skate•A•Round tour, but a small-group experience with mini workshops included
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No new date has been scheduled yet. At the moment I’m fully occupied with private lessons, private tours and volunteering for Friday Night Skate. That may change, though, so feel free to ask.
Every now and then it’s fun to make an exception to my private-only concept.
How about a small-group skate tour in Amsterdam (maximum 6 participants)? We’ll combine sightseeing with mini workshops on spacious squares. Sunday morning is by far the best time, as the city is still quiet. That’s our anti-cyclical approach.
A small-group skate tour with mini workshops? During the tour we’ll regularly stop to practise together: braking, turning, sliding, stepping off kerbs, small jumps and much more. The first workshop theme is scissors. Mastering scissors makes crossing tram tracks easier and improves your braking technique.
Of course, we won’t forget Amsterdam itself. Along the way you’ll also discover several hidden gems.
The price is €28.28 per person (maximum 6 participants) for this three-hour skate workshop tour.
Interested? You should already be able to brake confidently and have mastered the scissors technique. Send Skate•A•Round a WhatsApp message, email or simply give me a call.
Including stops on attractive spots in town to do a mini workshop together: better breaking, turning, sliding, off the sidewalk rolling or jumping..and so on.
Skate tracks Amsterdam to roll on your own, created by fans of Friday Night Skate Amsterdam.
Over the years inline skaters, participating at Friday Night Skate, have uploaded their Amsterdam skate tracks. This is a hobby page.
This self-do skate-route webpage from the widely known FNS group-skate contains tracks within town and in the countryside. Like Waterland, direction beach, IJburg and so on. You find small distances and long ones.
Part of of them are updated quite a long time ago.
Pictures of some amazing skate paths/roads in Amsterdam
These pictures have been made by Amsterdam Skate•A•Round guide & teacher Lex.
Private countryside skate tour, discovering the rural part of the Amsterdam area
Amsterdam looks like a star on the map, so the countryside is always near.
Reviews and press coverage for the private skate tours
Free publicity in National Geographic Traveler
(January 2022)
#proud
More Skate•A•Round in the press
So in this case Skate•A•Round is a private guide Amsterdam AND a private skate teacher
The do-it-yourself Hidden gems of Amsterdam skate track, made by Skate•A•Round, brand of Lex and the City.
Review of a Skate•A•Round Amsterdam countryside tour track: “rural North and Waterland”
Private inline skating instructor and coach in Amsterdam
10 spots in the city – fear reduction – braking – skate fitness – streetwise – freestyle – tailored – 4 seasons
“Lexperience” a private inline skating lesson in Amsterdam with Skate•A•Round. In Vondelpark or in Oosterpark. (Or in one of the other 8 skate spots in Amsterdam with smooth surface.)
Finally learn how to break well on inline-skates. And/or learn the basics how to move, to rotate, to turn, to speed up on your skates…(even how to jump, if you wish.)
I can start teaching inline skating as early as 7 a.m.
Skate•A•Round has been a leading brand in inline skating since 1998. Not just for lessons, but for all kinds of so-called “inline adventures”. Thousands of skaters have joined our tours, skate holidays and clinics, coming from more than 10 different countries.
Instructor Lex was fully dedicated to rollerblading for over 12 years. As the number of inline skaters gradually declined, he expanded his work into becoming a local private guide in Amsterdam and also in Paris.
Reviews about the Skate•A•Round private lessons in Amsterdam
Private inline skating lessons in autumn and winter time in Amsterdam
Next to river IJ – Under the roof of EYE filmmuseumScenic hotspot in North.
Press the roof of EYE for more information about the “protected” private skate lessons.
Free online skate tips on the Skate•A•Round Facebook page. Subjects: braking , streetwise, freestyle skating and speed-skating.
Become a fan of Skate•A•Round on Facebook and do not miss the online skate advice:
Skate•A•Round courier Amsterdam
Climate neutral delivery boy on inline skates in Amsterdam.
Pictures and video-clips of Skate•A•Round Lexperiences, including skate & sail.
Skate•A•Round not just skates on tracks with people, it hàs one too. ;) It has been organizing skate tours and skate holidays since 1998. With thousands of inline skaters we have discovered Paris, Barcelona, London, Berlin, New York, The French Riviera, Denmark, Switzerland and the Netherlands on inline skates!
Check links to picture pages:
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Speed, fitness and recreational skaters from around the world on the water and on wheels!
Skate•A•Round & Sail•A•Round in the Netherlands; a skate holiday in flow. :)
- Sail & Skate•A•Round Holland pictures July by Lex and by Jean-Marie & pictures of August. Part of it is in Friesland, the province Lex loves so much. (And has so much history.)
- What Klaus from Germany told us: Hei Lex, I met you at the Best of Holland Tour in Juli 2006. It was one of the best tours I have ever made.
- 12 years afterwards a client published a video of the “Skate Lexperience” we have been organizing in New York; http://vimeo.com/65394654
- Many more pictures and video’s from Skate•A•Round inline adventures
- Facebook Skate•A•Round BUZZ (become a fan.)
Sweet memories: We have been to the opening of the Oresund bridge in the year 2000 with 140 sporty people from all over the Netherlands and then we have made small-scale tours in Copenhagen the day after with locals.
Skating tours in Amsterdam: who’s doing what?
- Group events, group tours in the city, weekly, free of charge: Friday Night Skate
- Group tours in the countryside, weekly free of charge: Sunday Morning Skate
- Group tours in the city, focused on people who would like to participate for the first time, roller-skaters, free of charge: Skate Heroes
- Private tours in the city, including some good stories about that compelling Amsterdam and mini skate classes while cruising: us. With Skate•A•Round (part of Lex and the City)
About ice skating in Amsterdam | A “local Lexperience”. (fun story)
This is a “klunen to the ice on the canal picture” from about 14 years ago.
I seduce you here and now to click on it, as the second picture is (was!) Bob Maas actually skating on the gracht. (canal).
Bob, thanks for taking photo 1 and posing for photo 2! Top. This makes me even happier.
#iceskating
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Other private tours in Amsterdam
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IJburg is great to skate – Picture of skate teacher and guide Lex in April 2026. Private tour in Amsterdam: landing page
- Private tours in Amsterdam East by bike, footbike, on foot, also on skates by the way
- Private bike tour in Amsterdam or its surrounding countryside
- Private guide during events in Amsterdam: SAIL 2030 (and others)
- private tours in Amsterdam-North by bike, footbike, on foot, also on skates by the way
- Foot-bike tours in Amsterdam. A sustainable and active team activity for corporate groups.
Unique fragments of skating in Amsterdam 22 years ago, with founding father of FNS Erik Tange as the star of the show:
FNS with 1.000 to 2.000 people.
Made by a unique film maker on skates: Wilko Bello. See him filming Erik’s movements as tour leader of FNS.. what a technicien on skates he was! (they were..both Erik and Wilko!)
