Skating

Skating is also a sport in different varieties. Different skating sports are generated in different ways and rules. All have its different history. We will see them one be one.

Ice-skating:

Ice-skating is done on ice surface. Exact time when people started ice-skating is not known. It is popular in Great Britain, Germany, Russia and Switzerland. Ice-skating is the traveling on ice with skates. Narrow and parabolic blade like device is molded into the special boots. It is mainly done for recreation and as a sport. It is possible on canal or lakes, etc. which has freeze to form an ice surface. Some artificial cooling is done for indoor game play. World's longest ice-skating canal is located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is 8 km long.

Speed skating:

Speed skating or speedskating is an ice-skating sports where each competitors tries to cover certain distance first. It is like a race. Types of speed skating are long track speed skating, short track speed skating, inline speed skating and quad speed skating.

Roller-skating:

It is done by wheel. It is started in London in 1873, now worldwide. Roller-skating is traveling on smooth terrain with roller skate. It is a form of recreation and a sport too. It can be also a form of transportation. It is later differentiated in types like inline skating, free skating, speed skating, etc.

Aggressive skating:

Aggressive-skating also done by wheels. It is a stunt based skating. Aggressive-skaters try the tricks such as grinding on the edge of concrete ledges, jumping, spinning and flipping over the stairs or other gaps. There are many type of aggressive-skating. They are:

Vert skating: doing some aerial tricks does it on halfpipe.

Street skating: it just involves grinds, jumps and other tricks on public areas or on open streets.

Park skating: it is just similar to street skating but it is done in a skate park rather than on city street.

Skateboard:

It is done on a board. Person doing skates on this skateboard are termed as skateboarder or skater. It could be hobby, art, sport and a means of transportation. It is categorized in extreme sport. Some skaters oppose this skateboard skating. Mostly males below 18 do this skateboard.

Snowskating:

Snowskating is just a riding on a flat skate deck on snow. It is also attached to a ski and is called a bideck or bilevel snowskate. Snowskating combines the elements of skateboard and snowboarding to create new experience, sport and stunts. Many sports are their based on snowskating like skiing competition.

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