Ads
related to: k2 soft boot rollerblades clearance men
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
In the 1980s and 1990s, all inline skates had hard boots, borrowed from ski boot designs. A removable liner in a hard boot provides a snug yet comfortable fit between a skater's foot and the hard shell. Around 1996, K2 introduced soft boots with an exoskeleton. These provide the most comfortable fit, at the expense of reduced rigidity.
K2 Sports, LLC, known simply as K2, is an American sporting goods company headquartered in Seattle, Washington focused primarily on winter sports equipment. K2 operates under the labels K2 Snow and K2 Skates, as well as its subsidiaries Backcountry Access, Ride Snowboards, Tubbs Snowshoes, Atlas Snow-Shoe Company, LINE Skis, Full Tilt Boots, and Madshus brands. [1]
Scott and Brennan Olson formed the company Rollerblade, Inc., to sell skates with four polyurethane wheels arranged in a straight line on the bottom of a padded boot. [1] In 1988, Rollerblade introduced the first aggressive inline skate, the Rollerblade Lightning TRS.
A man inline skating at Vondelpark in Amsterdam.. Inline skating is a multi-disciplinary sport and can refer to a number of activities practiced using inline skates.Inline skates typically have two to five polyurethane wheels depending on the style of practice, arranged in a single line by a metal or plastic frame on the underside of a boot.
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.