Talk:Roller skating

message: There is a huge, international community of artistic competitive roller skaters, who have the same competitive skating events that ice skaters have.  These roller skaters skate figures, free-style, pairs, dance, and free dance, and even dress in similar competition outfits.  They hold Nationals and World's competitions, and they are in the Pan American Games.  Since this group of athletes has been active for around a century, you may assume that this information would fit into any quad-skating category you may provide; however, I think it's big enough to warrant a category of its own.  This very important segment of the skating world has been completely ignored in the article, although links to some of their organizations are provided.  http://usarollersports.org/  Indeed, a disproportionate amount of space has been given to in-line skating considering how recently it came into existence, and particularly in view of the exclusion of artistic roller skating. --Catwoman07076 11:48, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Artistic Skating not even mentioned? 

message: There is no mention of wheel materials in the article, the use of polyurethane surely being a highly significant development in the history of skating. Perhaps a knowledgeable contributor could rectify this. Spiridens 06:50, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I added a section in the alternatives about Polyurethane wheels. It still needs its own section but it is at least mentioned now.--Ovxt (talk) 21:22, 17 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Polyurethane 

message: It read like an advertisement for a particular brand of skate. Completely irreverent, didn't fit the context of the section. It's gone now. 24.247.219.140 12:30, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed Section In Agressive Skating 

message: Rollerblade should say something about the company rather than simply redirect to roller skating. Many people (including large business and govts making warning signs) use the term "Rollerblade" when they mean something more general. Tom Brown 10:31, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rollerblade 

message: I de-wikified the Robert Henley link as it pointed to a completely different Robert Henley. I was going to write another article about the Robert Henley who invented the ball-bearing skate, then disambiguate, etc. But I can't find anything about Robert other than that he invented the skate -- so perhaps an article is unnecessary for the moment. OTOH, his uncle, Micajah Henley, was an early producer of skates (the "Chicago Skate")  so perhaps an article on Micajah, with mention of Robert's contribution, would be relevant. I can't write one today, but I will try to do it later, or if someone else gets to it first, and wants to do it, feel free. ManekiNeko | Talk 21:22, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Robert Henley 

message: I just did a bunch of cleanup; copyediting, writing new material, etc. I tried to make the page more inclusive; though inlines have been popular for the last 15-20 years, quads are still used  and were the roller skate for a century, so I included quads in places where it seemed appropriate. (I am both a quad and an inline skater and have competed on both.) I expanded the quad section a bit since there is no page for quad skates, so until we separate that material out into its own article, it needs to be here. I also removed the cleanup tag as it seemed ok to do that now.
One thing -- the quintessence skates so prominently mentioned in the article? I did a google search. There are very few references to "quintessence skate" in Google (39 if you leave out dupes) and the vast majority of those are mirrors of this article. So I don't think the q-skate is one of the "three kinds of skates" -- it just doesn't have that kind of notability. I changed the article to refer to the two kinds of skates, quad and inline, but I left in a mention that there are some other less-common variants like the quintessence skate. ManekiNeko | Talk 09:41, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup 

message: I just removed a paragraph from the Free Skating section that was a good description of a particular technique (cess slide); I removed it because it seemed kind of random. We don't have a list of all the various techniques from any of the other kinds of skating here, and there didn't seem to be any particular reason to focus on this one technique. (Also, is that a "free skating" technique or just a general aggressive technique? It might have been in the wrong place anyway.) Now, if there is an article about Free Skating, that might be a good place to put such a list. I made a link to Free skating (inline) so someone can start a free skating article. (It's named Free skating (inline) because free skating is also the name for one of the disciplines of ice skating.) -- ManekiNeko | Talk 01:44, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Free skating 

message: The revision as of 07:07, 2 May 2006 inserts a massive chunk of text in the "Aggressive skating" section which is attributed to "www.anti-rocker.com".  I'm no expert, but can see no licensing information anywhere around Daniel Barlow 16:23, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  copyright violation 

message: I've added some more pics.  There weren't any on the page of non-inline skates, and that wasn't good.  Also, more pics of skates in general were needed, since the skates themselves redirect to this article. ENpeeOHvee 19:03, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  pics and stuff 

message: There is no mention at all of the new style of roller skate made by LandRoller (http://www.landroller.com). These skates are neither quad skates nor in-line skates and should be mentioned in order for readers to be knowledgeable about the continued evolution of roller  skate and latest developments in equipment.
Gary 20:41, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  LandRollers 

message: In all my years of skating I have never seen any listing or description of Quad Freestyle Dance Skating (locally known as Funk Skating). It evolved from Roller Disco and Jam Skating but is of a different nature and quality than these. It seems to be an obscure and, sadly, dying form of skating and is such a unique sub-class of Quad skating that it deserves to be documented and a record of it's existence preserved. In order to understand how this activity merits special recognition one must first understand the physics produced by Quads, followed by an explanation of their application and effects on rhythm skating. A key ingredient and mover of this type of skating is the music. It mostly always has a prominent baseline and the aim is to synchronize to the beat. A spontaneous unrehearsed type of freestyle Shadow Skating results. It is a non-competitive activity that is not concerned with doing "tricks". If anyone has done or knows of this kind of skating, your observations and input would be valued.
Tano 01:39, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Category of Quad Skating Added 

message: i'm a quad roller skater whos been skating for 5 years and some of this stuff is incorrect —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Madcow 93 (talk • contribs) 19:22, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  incorrect info 

message: There seems to be a lot of external links on this site, many of which seem to be spam (WP:SPAM). It would be better if someone with more knowledge of the subject and WP policy actually did the clean up.Hammer1980·talk 11:08, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Clean up External links

message: In December 2007 it was proposed that Anti rockers be merged into this page. That article was a single paragraph without any context, explaining what anti-rockers were. The merge proposal wasn't properly formed (the proposer didn't add the merge tag to this page) but it seems uncontroversial so I have carried out the merge, added the info as a paragraph in "Aggressive inline skating" and redirected "Anti-rocker" to this article.
Am happy to discuss if anyone disagrees.  Euryalus (talk) 23:33, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge anti-rocker info 

message: Is it necessary to have that huge list of tricks? It doesn't concern those of us reading the article for information about rollerskates and it makes the article awfully long and cumbersome. I think it belongs elsewhere. Southsailor (talk) 16:51, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Too many tricks! 

message: ===Redirect===
I redirected roller skates to quad skates( from roller skating) since roller skating is a verb not a noun...but perhaps quad should redirect to roller skate or quad skate (singular)?--Hardballhock 05:02, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion merged in from [[Talk:Quad skates]]

message: I redirected roller skates to quad skates( from roller skating) since roller skating is a verb not a noun...but perhaps quad should redirect to roller skate or quad skate (singular)?--Hardballhock 05:02, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Redirect

message: What is meant by adjustable tension, and what were roller skate keys used for?  Thanks, Maikel 09:40, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Key?

message: I think since this is most commercially used term (see ESPN Xgames pre-'95) the most easily recognized term should perhaps be the name of the section. There is many different forms of "Aggressive Skating" with various forms of unusual skates (IE Land Roller Offroad skates, also i cant remember the name but there are ones with ball wheels that have complete motion in all directions so you can do some crazy stuff with them)yet the only type of aggessive skating discussed is inline (and most predominant unless your talking about a skateboard). Plain aggressive skating is far too ambiguous for the content. Also the linked Aggressive Skating link has been proposed to merge with Inline Aggressive Skating and renamed as Aggressive Inline Skating since it is the only subject discussed. Maybe some redirects may be helpful to find the articles on Aggressive Inline skating better?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.122.164.200 (talk) 08:41, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Please edit to specify Aggressive Inline Skating vs. just Aggressive Skating

message: There are two things that need clarification.
1. Has anyone got a reference for the term "roller skating" ? Can someone cite the earliest use of the term ?
2. Most books covering the history of Roller skates seem to suggest that the modern roller skates (not inline) were invented in the USA in 1863.
This cannot be correct as there is a drawing by the spanish painter Goya who lived in Paris in 1820's of a young man clearly on roller skates.
The drawing itself is to be found in the Frick collection. Entitled Locos Patines  or Mad Skates .
http://www.frick.org/assets/images/exhibitions/goya/Goya_LocosPatines.600.jpg
Most books suggest that a M Petibled of Paris invented "inline" roller skates around that time 1819. There is a possibility that the translation from the original french has led people to incorrectly believe that his skates were inline. In fact they could have been of a conventional design, with two wheels on each side of the foot. The evidence of this is circumstantial via the Goya drawing, but the French patents office would not have allowed identical patents to be given for the same invention.
Aquafire (talk) 07:16, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  History of Roller Skating : New information 

message: I'd like to add some content about freestyle skate gatherings in major U. S. cities like NYC and SF. Suggested link for SF: http://www.sfskaters.org/public/html/page7.html#2.2 and for NY: http://www.skatecity.com/nyc/where/centralpark.html--PFS (talk) 18:06, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Identify established Freestyle locales in US cities? 

message: Change terrain to surface in the definition. The definition mentions smooth terrain, but skating does not occur on terrain, it occurs on surfaces.  Definition from the Merriam Websters Collegiate Dictionary -- 1) a geographical area 2) a piece of land 3) the physical features of a tract of land. Obviously, the third one is what the writer intended, but that definition does not encompass wooden skating rinks and skate parks, nor paved skate paths. Terrain refers to the parts of land that are not covered by man made surfaces, and these are the places that skating does not happen.
 BejinhanTalk  12:47, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please correct the definition of skating -- "terrain" is incorrect 

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thread_title: Pending changes

message: Don't get me wrong -- I'd have no problem with it being a separate article, or distinguished from "proper, respectable" roller skating in some other way. :) It's a fad that may well annoy those who do artistic, competitive, or otherwise "serious" roller skating. However, I find it odd that there doesn't seem to be any mention at all, anywhere in the article, of the massive popularity of (quad) roller skating rinks in the 1970s and 1980s. It was a very big deal in the United States for a whole generation, of which you've probably already guessed I am one, and it's odd to think it would go completely unnoticed in any comprehensive article on roller skating. If I've overlooked it, let me know on my user page; otherwise, let's do what we can to remedy the oversight. Lawikitejana (talk) 00:13, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Am I missing something? (re: 1970s/1980s roller disco)