- Inline aggressive skate
Aggressive skating is a form of
roller skating on specially designed skates which usually have 2 or 4, 53mm to 60mmurethane wheels and 40mm to 50mmanti-rockers . The sport, often referred to by participants as rollerblading, bladingor rolling, mainly consists of a wide variety of grinds, aerial tricks, slides and other advanced skating maneuvers. It alsoincludes "vert", "park" and "street skating" which refer to tricks performed on almost any obstacle. Street skating specificallyrefers to tricks performed on non-allocated obstacles ("i.e." not skate parks).History
Aggressive skating was born in the 1980s. It first started with people jumping over barriers and doing spins in the air. The first grind was the "frontside." It was invented by Chris Edwards who is a legend in the sport. After that, all skaters during that time were trying to invent new tricks to help the sport grow. Many new tricks came about in the late 80's and early 90s. Today there are many different variations of the tricks such as alley-oop, truespin, and topside. Also skaters today are doing spins and grabs in and out of grinds and even switching up on the rail to make the trick harder. There are also different types of skating. Vert skating is a half pipe which gets vertical at the top of the ramp. Street skating is where skating was born, and involves skaters going around cities and towns grinding hand rails, grinding ledges, jumping stairs, turning anything on the regular street into an obstacle.
Disciplines
treet
Park
Vert
Aggressive skates
Typically an aggressive skate consists of the following components:
* Cuff with buckle
* Shell
* Liner (often with shockabsorber)
* Soulframe
* Soulplates
* Frame
* Wheels
* BearingsFrames
Wheels
Bearings
ee also
*Inline roller skating tricks
External links
* [http://www.agrsveml.com Skating blog with news and videos]
* [http://www.rollernews.com Aggressive skating news/community]
* [http://toxboe.net/trickguide Trick guide]
* [http://www.grindhouse.eu European aggressive skateshop]
* [http://www.xsk8.net Aggressive inline skate magazine]
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