I love to inline skate in my spare time.  Do you do any inline skating?
No im horrible at it but Id love to know more about it.
Well, you know that inline skates are more like ice skaings.... one single row of wheel rather than four clunky wheels like when I was a kid.
Yea but my balance is terrible so I avoid them, do you know when they were first invented perhaps?
Interesting story.  I thought they were invented in San Diego, but they were used by Russian athletes to train for Olympic long track speed (ice) skating events!
oh wow thats actually really cool, how long have they been around?
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
similar to single-wheeled skates like Heelys. Due to the lack of straps on the contact plate, freeline skates require constant motion to stay on, and are a particular challenge for novices.
- Two-wheeled skates: there are also other lesser seen two-wheeled skate arrangements. Some resemble inline skates but with 2 very large wheels bolted in at an angle from the outside rather than a center-balanced row of 4 smaller wheels underneath of inline skates. Others resemble freeline skates in that they have a small