I like to skate. Specifically inline skating! What about you?
I used to love inline skating as a kid. Is it still popular these days?
At least in the 1980s! "Life" magazine published a piece on an American skater training for the Olympics.
Oh wow. Way back in the 80's. That is really cool.
with single- to many-rowed devices worn on feet in 1760. Inline skates, skates designed to work like ice skates during periods of warm weather, were invented by Louis Legrange of France in 1849. Legrange designed the skates for an opera where a character was to appear to be skating on ice. The skates were problematic and unsuccessful as the wearer could not turn nor could they stop.
At some point between 1895 and 1899 the UK engineering company D. Napier & Son made Ritter "road skates", which had
was developed as a substitute for ice skates, for use by a Russian athlete training on solid ground for Olympic long track speed skating events. "Life" magazine published a photo of American skater Eric Heiden, training for the 1980 Olympics, using such skates on a Wisconsin road.
During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Rollerblade, Inc., a company founded by Scott and Brennan Olson in Minneapolis, Minnesota, widely promoted inline skating through the registered trademark "Rollerblade".
History.
John Joseph Merlin experimented