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Roller Skating- A Sporting Fun


The young of today have taken to a modified form of skating in a big way. In an era where indoor computer games rule the hearts and minds of the kids, roller skating is an outdoor sport that is both exciting and fashionable to be part of.

The only requirements to be part of this adventurous sport are a keen interest and skates to ride on. The skates in this form of skating are basically of two main types- quads or inline.

History of the Game

Roller skates first came into picture in a London stage show way back in the eighteenth century. patented versions of inline and quad skates came to be in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, but it was not until the 1877 when the combined efforts of William Brown and Joseph Henry Hughes when the skates closest to those seen today were born.

By 1880s, these skates were being sold commercially in America and a sport was born. Rollerblade Inc. became synonymous with roller skating industry. In fact the term rollerblading is now generic terms for any form of skating, and is derived from the company's name.


Types of Roller Skating

The main forms of this type of skating are

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