My mom bought me inline skates when I was younger but I never did learn how to use them.
Yea, they have two to five wheels in a line instead of spread out which makes it awkward at times
Are you good at inline skating?
Not as much as I would like to be. It's a sport practiced pretty widley in the international community.
I didn't know people did it as a sport, I thought it was just for fun. Are there competitions?
Yup. All over the USA in fact. 
Wow interesting. How long has it been considered a sport?
Early 1990s! It's been a while
That's so cool. Maybe I should teach myself how to inline skate, after all, it's never too late to try!
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
toe plugs, as the large toe stops are cumbersome when performing dance footwork. Figure skaters generally have specially made plates for figure skating which have no receptacle for the toe stop.
Some artistic skaters use inline skates. Skates designed for inline artistic skating have leather boots (as ice and quad figure skates do), and usually have rockered wheels and a toe stop or toe "pic". Rockered wheels (wheels which are arranged at different heights so that the baseline of the wheels forms a curve instead of a flat