August 2016

Most in-line skates weigh between 4 and 7 pounds.  The boot is made of a hard plastic shell with laces and or buckles over a boot liner.  On the bottom of each boot is a wheel frame housing three to five urethane wheels in vertical placement from heel to toe.  Large wheels are more stable […]

Stunts and tricks such as grinding, curb launching, and vert skating are used by advanced skaters during aggressive skating, otherwise known as street skating.  Grinding involves riding curbs, rails, and similar objects.  Curb launches involve jumps off elevated surfaces.  Vert skating is short for vertical skating and involves stunts in a half-pipe structure.  Skate parks

skaters use a technique called striding, which is balancing on one foot while pushing off with the other.  This is repeated with the opposite foot.  To stop, skaters can use the heel brake (a rubber pad attached to the back of the skate), the t-stop (dragging one foot behind the body perpendicular to the other

Inline skating is a popular recreational activity where the skater glides on lightweight boots with three to five wheels attached in a line.  Scott Olsen is the American entrepreneur credited with developing the first modern in-line skates as a way to train for ice hockey during the off-season.  These skates were comprised of a metal

Roller skating competition has included artistic skating, speed skating, roller hockey, and roller derby.  Artistic skating shares similarities with figure skating, and can be performed with or without a partner.  Speed skaters race through a course, competing against each other and the clock.  Roller hockey utilizes rules similar to ice hockey.  Roller derby, which died

In the early 18th century, a Dutchman named Joseph Merlin came up with the idea of attaching wooden spools to a plate to simulate ice skating on dry ground.  In 1763, the first roller skates were created, featuring metal wheels.  In 1863, American inventor James Leonard Plimpton patented the first roller skates that enabled the

Roller skating involves gliding over a smooth surface on roller skates, which are specially designed boots with two wheels at the front and two at the heel.  Roller skating can be enjoyed outdoors or at indoor roller rinks.  During the late 1980s and early 1990s, roller skating lost some of its appeal as in-line skates

roller skating, gliding on a hard, smooth, durable surface on skates with rollers or wheels, in recent years has become a popular adult sport. Skates mounted on wooden rollers date from the 1860s, and soon wooden wheels replaced the rollers. The ball-bearing skate wheel was invented in the 1880s. The origin of roller skates is

There is no governing body that declares any regulations on what constitutes a skateboard or the parts from which it is assembled. Historically, the skateboard has conformed both to contemporary trends and to the ever-evolving array of stunts performed by riders/users, who require a certain functionality from the board. Of course, the board shape depends