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Depending on the type of skating you do, you should buy skate wheels of the appropriate type. You probably know already that quad roller skates have different wheels to inline skates, but it’s far more advanced than that. Quad skate wheels are all pretty similar, so here we’ll concentrate on the variety in roller blade wheels. Read More...



Ice skates normally have blades made from tough carbon steel. This has been heat tempered for maximum hardness, so care is needed when they are sharpened so that the grinding wheel doesn’t make the metal too hot - this will undo the annealing and make the blades weak. Read More...




The blades on ice skates have a distinct inner and outer edge, separated by a hollow. You skate using these edges. Most beginners overuse the inner edge, meaning the blades wear unevenly. The middle of the blades also tends to wear down more than the ends, because this is where most of your weight is placed.
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When people wear roller skates for the first time, be they inline skates or quads, their natural instinct is to push off in the same way they would if they were running - i.e. with the feet parallel. Instead of gliding along, they end up doing an awkward kind of “hobble on wheels” (or blades) before falling over.
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If you want to get really good on your rollerblades, you’re going to have to take them off occasionally. Aggressive skating on rollerblades engages a variety of advanced training techniques, including plyometrics and interval training.
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Vert (or vertical) skating is one of several extreme styles that inline skates were designed for. When you go to a skate park and see what looks like a large drainage pipe that has been cut in half lengthways - that’s a half-pipe, and an essential of vert skating. Read More...



While generally people should not be judged by their gender, guys have their aggressive skates and girls have their roller derbies. Roller skates aren’t just inline – we at Skates.co.uk sell a wide range of quad skates as well, which are just as popular.
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When skate parks first opened, they were mostly aimed at skateboard users. However, as time went on (and roller blades became popular again) they became equally popular with roller skaters.
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