Ride Lab

RIDE LAB is an Innovative Youth Skateboarding and Snowboarding Coaching Program based in Lausanne.

We guide and ride with young riders as they develop confidence, technique, creativity, and personal style — on Wheels and on Snow.

Designed especially for riders that want to have fun and evolve and parents that don’t have time to take them to the slopes and skateparks, RIDE LAB combines structured skill development with real emotional connection to the culture of board sports.

Training is led by a Certified Skate and Snowboard Coach, who has spent years coaching and riding alongside his son — a National Skateboarding Champion and a member of the Portuguese Snowboard Team and Ski Romand Snowboard Development Team.

This Father-and-Son Dynamic creates a unique environment where progression, confidence and joy grow naturally — both in the skatepark and in the mountains.

We don’t only teach tricks.

We teach awareness, balance, resilience, creativity, courage and community.

WHY WE’RE DIFFERENT

Traditional lessons often follow a rigid structure. It teach technique but forgets what makes snowboarding and skateboarding special: the feeling.

At RIDE LAB we guide each rider at their own rhythm, blending technical development with creativity and fun on different slopes and skateparks. You learn by doing, by playing, by riding — not only by repeating.

Every session is adapted to the individual, turning the mountain or the skatepark into a place of discovery, not instruction.

Confidence grows naturally — and every turn, every trick, every laugh counts.

THE TEAM 

JOÃO GODINHO - THE MENTOR

• 50 Years Old, Married, Father of 3
• Certified Skateboarding Coach by FPP/World Skate
• SSBS Swiss Snowboarding Coach
• Level 3 FPP/World Skate Judge
• Director/Head Judge Liga Pro Skate (Portuguese National Championship)
• Head Judge World Rookie Tour

TOMÁS GODINHO - THE RIDER