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Inline Skating

Inline Skating is a variety of skating as a competitive sport. It is now practiced internationally. Inline skates have two to five polyurethane wheels, and they are arranged in a single line. The design allow for faster speed than roller skates.





Inline skating is done at race tracks, skate parks, urban areas, and off-roads. Inline skating is popularly known as roller blading due to the popular brand “rollerblades.”



Types of inline skating are:



Vert Skating - done in vert ramp. It is a form of gymnastics but using skates.

Aggressive Inline Skating — involves grins, airs, cess slides, to/heel rolls and other advance skating techniques.

Freestyle Skating - done on flatland. Freestyle skating refers to the competitions organized by the International Freestyle Skaters Association. Freestyle skating has several varieties: freestyle slalom, speed slalom, free jump, high jump, and jam.

Inline Speed Skating — athletes use inline skates to race around tracks

Inline Hockey — similar to ice hockey, players move around on a wooden or concrete surface wearing inline skates.

Road Skating — athletes use either inline or roller skates and ride on road courses.

Roller Soccer — indoor sport, playing soccer while wearing roller skates.

Inline Alpine Skating



Rollerblading Versus Inline Skating

By Carlesa Williams

The use of "rollerblading" and "inline skating" interchangeably may cause confusion. It may seem like the terms refers to two different activities when in fact they are just two names for the same sport. To be most accurate, "rollerblading" refers to using inline skates by Rollerblade, a specific manufacturer of inline skates. "Inline skating" is more generic and is the proper name for the sport. The confusion comes from the fact that many people say "rollerblading" when what is meant is inline skating in general.

This happened due to the large role that the Rollerblade company played in making inline skating popular. Rollerblade was so successful in marketing inline skates and equipment that the term "rollerblading" was and still is used when referring to inline skating sports. Inline skates are often called "Rollerblades" regardless of which company actually built them. However, Rollerblade did not invent, design, or manufacture the very first inline skates.

To set the record straight, "inline skating" or "inline roller skating" is the official name for "rollerblading" or "blading" sports, and "inline skates" is the correct name for "Rollerblades" manufactured by any other company. If you actually use Rollerblade brand skates, then you are really rollerblading; otherwise, you are inline skating.

The History of Inline Skating

The prominence and success of Rollerblade's skates have overshadowed other manufacturers and left out a lot of the history of roller and inline roller skates.

Although the sport of ice skating—one of the predecessors of inline skating—has been around since as early as 3,000 B.C., the origin of inline skates most likely dates back to 1743 when a London stage actor mentioned them in a performance. However, the original inventor has been lost to history and it wasn't until 1760 that the first documented creation of inline skates took place, when John Joseph Merlin invented a set of skates with a single line of metal wheels—and no breaks—to wear as a publicity stunt to get people into his museum.

Over the next century, inventors from around the world continued to experiment with inline skate design, and in 1819 the first inline skate was patented. Throughout the 1800s, inventors continued to improve on these designs, and 40 years later, in 1863, skates with two axles were developed (roller skating).

Many improvements were introduced over the next 100 years, until 1980 when Scott and Brennan Olson established Ole's Innovative Sports (later, Rollerblade), to produced and sell a set of inline skates with no brake for professional athletes to use to train for hockey and ice skating sports in the off-season.

Their design sparked a global phenomenon in roller sports, propelling both the company and rollerblading into a worldwide success that led the way for the modern inline skates people still use.

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