Freestyle inline skating
skating that involves performing tricks around a straight line of cones
Inline freestyle skating is a highly technical field of inline skating that involves performing tricks around a straight line of equally spaced cones. The three spacings used in competitions are 80 centimetres (31 in), 50 cm (20 in) and 120 cm (47 in).
Disciplines
Classic slalom
Freestyle slalom skaters use inline skates, with some variations. The skates use a rocker configuration, however there are other variations of the rocker set-up that exist. The rocker setup is where only 2 wheels are touching the floor at any point in time, usually with a 2 mm height difference between the higher and lower wheels. Flat setups, where all four wheels touch the ground are rare.
There are two common ways to rocker the wheels. Firstly, is by putting larger wheels in the center and smaller wheels on each end. An example of this is having 80 mm wheels in the 2nd and 3rd position and 76 mm in the front and back. The second method is having a rockered frame.
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