Just before the start of the new semester, Christiane Bohn and Tabea Christ from our department’s psychomotor learning and development lab, visited the 15th annual conference of the dvs-committee “Development of Sports Infrastructure” centered around the topic “Skating and wiseassing – scientific perspectives on skateboarding” in Dortmund. In the contribution panel skateboarding as therapy, Tabea Christ gave a presentation on her PhD topic, the research project “Skaten statt Ritalin”. There, she shared first scientific findings on the effectiveness of skateboarding as a therapy for children with ADHD with the present interested skateboarders, skate-coaches and fellow researchers.