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Small Show Group: A group of six (6) to twelve (12) skaters (women and/or men) with a maximum of two (2) extras. [3] Artistic roller skaters use either quad or inline skates, though quad skates are more traditional and significantly more common. Generally, quad and inline skaters compete in separate events and not against each other.
Roller skates are boots with wheels mounted to the bottom, allowing the user to travel on hard surfaces similarly to an ice skater on ice. The first roller skate was an inline skate design, effectively an ice skate with a line of wheels replacing the blade.
Roller derby is a roller skating contact sport played on an oval track by two teams of five skaters. It is played by approximately 1,250 amateur leagues [note 1] worldwide, though it is most popular in the United States.
Inline skates are boots with wheels arranged in a single line from front to back, allowing a skater to roll along on these wheels. Inline skates are technically a type of roller skate , but most people associate the term roller skates with quad skates, another type of roller skate with a two-by-two wheel arrangement similar to a car.
A rollerblade skate. Rollerblade is a brand of inline skates owned by Nordica, part of the Tecnica Group of Giavera del Montello, Treviso, Italy. [5] [6]The company was started by Scott Olson (b. 1960) in Minneapolis as Ole's Innovative Sports; when they sold the company, it became Rollerblade, Inc. [7] and has changed hands over time between Nordica, Benetton Group and Tecnica.
Unidentified woman roller skater, c. 1860–1870 Roller skates in the United States around 1905. The earliest roller skates known are from 18th-century Europe. These skates were used in theater and musical performances, possibly to simulate ice skating onstage. Early roller skating was done in a straight line because turning or curving was very ...