Hi, we are Ellis & Hugh! Co-Founders of Dozy Sk8!

We started our lovely little skate group in January 2026! After training to become roller / inline skate coaches!

We started skating together and quickly realised there wasn’t many skaters in the area to learn from, or any sessions to join and meet new rollers. so we wanted created the space and community we didn’t have!

In 2025 we were fully hooked on skating, not enjoying the regular working life and needed a way to create a better future for ourselves! While doing loads of research and trying to find a way to make out hobby a job, we came across an academy. where we would spend 6 months training to be Roller coaches!

We spend this 6 months travelling hours to a different city, fighting our fear and anxieties, got comfortable teaching a room full of people, learnt how to structure classes and teach skating safely. This is without a doubt the scariest journey our lives have ever taken, but so worth it!

with 5 qualifications in hand, luck seemed to strike again, and we won £1000 in our local community lottery, giving us some funds to buy the equipment we needed to get our skate group started here in kettering!