Aggressive skating

Aggressive skating is a form of skating that has evolved since the late ’80s. It is performed stunts using rollerblades usually over some obstacle such as ramps, curbs, railings or half-pipes. It is divided into two main categories:

Aggressive “Street” Skating

In aggressive “street” skating the skater uses all sorts of urban obstacles to perform tricks, which are the Grinder and Jump. This makes use of rails, curbs, etc.

Aggressive “Ramp” Skating

This is practiced on large ramps in the form of half pipes where the biggest attraction is to perform aerial manoeuvres, reaching great heights, making complex spins of up to 1080 º (3 full turns) or so-called Back Flips, which similarly rotate into the air, into the triple backflip.

Other variants of this type is the Viking Flip turns which are basically a horizontal back flip, and the even more surprising combinations of aerial tricks, as performed by Eito Yasutoko, which is + 360 + Back Flip Back Flip, all into one trip into the air.

Grind / Relear / Eslayar / Fist / Slide

The Grinder also known elsewhere as Slide, fist, Relear (or eslayar) is to slide on a rail or edge of a curb using two parts of the skate known as the first groove, which is a piece of plastic composition to improve sliding.

It is located between the two central wheels of the skate; the other element is the soul deslizarce plate which is on the outer edge of the skate, in simpler words the sole of platinum is consistent to the rail also known as the frame. A third possibility from sliding are called Negatives which become the counterpart to the soul plate, ie the inner part of the sole beneath the arch of the foot.

Tips and tricks formulation

Tricks can be done using one foot or both. The Soul grind has many derivations such as mizou, pornstar, Mistrial and Maki. These tricks also have their counter parts which are called topsides, which indicates that it is the same position but this time not only supports the soul plate but the rail on the curb or railing too.

Combinations and abbreviations on Grinds

The tricks are based entirely on soul grinds tricks where the look and patin are directed toward the front, when these are done in a reverse there are tricks like Ally oop soul grind which is a soul grind going into back. SW tricks have to make your bad side. In shorthand terms you have the following AO = Ally Oop Backside FS = BS = SW = Switch Frontside TS = True Spin Evolution of aggressive skating.

When the sport began to be commercialized in Europe and later America, people who used to skate, listened to hip-hop, dressed in loose clothing, used graffiti, etc yet today things have changed a lot, now the skaters have a great diversity of cultural dress, music listening, style of skating, etc.

The style that seems to be getting more attention is called “style sticks” or as they say “cigarette style”. They listen to all kinds of music, but often focus on rock, dance, techno, new rock, etc. They do tricks that were not previously used or that are entirely new, as many call them “geeks” tricks. Of course there has been progress in the level of tricks.