Training Children's Motor Skills During the Pandemic with Push Bike, a Pedal-less Bicycle that is Currently Popular

Kapanlagi.com - In this ongoing pandemic, there are many healthy lifestyles that are popular among the people. One of these healthy lifestyles is cycling. Not only adults, teenagers, and the elderly engage in this activity, but also children. Interestingly, cycling trends for children use push bikes.

Yup! Push bikes are mini bicycles specifically designed for children that do not have pedals to move the bike. The bike will move with the child's own legs, and it becomes a balanced bike for learning balance and driving. Of course, this bike is very trendy in Indonesia, especially in Yogyakarta.

1. Community in Yogyakarta

Push Bike Event in Yogyakarta, December 2020 (Credit: KBPY)

The enthusiasm of parents in Yogyakarta, especially those whose children enjoy playing push bikes, has led some friends in Yogyakarta to initiate the creation of a push bike association or community called KBPY (Yogyakarta Push Bike Big Family). One of them is Mr. Damar, who is also one of the founders of KBPY.

Mr. Damar said that there is a great enthusiasm among parents and children for Push Bike, which led him and his friends to establish KBPY as a platform for push bike players in Yogyakarta. This association is family-oriented, embracing all children and parents to have leisure time together.

Mr. Damar also stated that the goal of Push Bike is to make parents spend time with their children. In addition, it provides entertainment and promotes the child's development.

"Actually, one of the goals of KBPY is for parents to play with their children. So when we see parents with their children, it means our goal is achieved," Mr. Damar expressed.

2. Becoming a Gathering for Children and Parents

Push Bike Event in Yogyakarta, December 2020 (Credit: KBPY)

Not only being a gathering for children, KBPY also becomes a gathering for parents. In this gathering, parents will be provided with parenting activities, such as seminars.

This is done to provide understanding for parents whose children participate in Push Bike activities, so they do not have the ambition to win. Instead, this activity is aimed to help parents in shaping their children's character to be more independent.

"So we make sure that parents do not have the ambition to be champions, but we try to help parents on how to handle their children to become more independent, brave, and strong, in short," he continued.

Not only organizing competitions, KBYP also has activities called Play Date. This is a monthly routine activity where children and parents engage in activities such as playing in nature and recreating together to create a sense of togetherness between riders and parents.

"Before the pandemic, we used to have play dates. We went to the river, we went to the mountains, we went to the beach, and we also went to the playground, we went there together," explained Mr. Damar.

3. Becoming the Community with the Most Followers

Push Bike Yogyakarta (Credit: KBPY)

Although KBPY was just established in 2018, it has a large number of followers, even becoming one of the communities with the most followers in Indonesia. 

Not only that, the number of push bike followers increases every month, even during this pandemic. This is evidence that parents have realized that Push Bike is one of the children's bicycles that has extraordinary benefits, especially in terms of motor skills.

"Many, we have almost 30-40 members registering every month. We stopped because there were too many in October, and we will open again in January 2021," he said.

4. Achievements of KBPY

Push Bike Event in Yogyakarta, December 2020 (Credit: KBPY)

Not only being an ordinary gathering, KLovers, but KBPY also has extraordinary achievements in Push Bike competitions. Children who join the Push Bike community in Yogyakarta have various ages. The youngest member of this community is only 20 months old, and the oldest member is 7 years old.

Of course, these children have extraordinary achievements in playing Push Bike. "There will definitely be improvements, because riders from KBPY have won first place in Malaysia, first place in Singapore. We were supposed to send some riders to Thailand and Malaysia in 2020. But due to the pandemic, we couldn't send them," said Mr. Damar.

5. Registration Fee

Push Bike Event in Yogyakarta, December 2020 (Credit: Dhia Amira)

With the many extraordinary things that parents can get from participating in activities at KBPY, it's no wonder that this community has become so popular in Yogyakarta. And for you parents who want your children to have an extraordinary experience and develop their motor skills excellently, you can directly visit Push Bike Yogyakarta's Instagram @pushpikeyk to register for the January 2021 period.

The registration fee is only 100,000/child for a lifetime. And from this fee, we will get the official jersey from KBPY, as well as an ID card. This ID card will also provide online shopping discounts for stores that collaborate with KBPY.

"We charge 100,000 rupiah for a lifetime. Later, they will get the official KBPY jersey and an ID card. This ID card will be used when they shop online at stores that collaborate with KBPY, they will get a discount," explained Mr. Damar.

There are many extraordinary things that parents can do for their children. One of them is to involve their children in push bike activities that can improve their motor skills from a very young age.

(kpl/dhm)