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What is Aggressive Inline Skating or Freestyle Rollerblading?

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Question: What is Aggressive Inline Skating or Freestyle Rollerblading?
Aggressive inline skating attracts youth of all ages. The entertainment value of aggressive stunts make them a very important part of the inline skating community of sports.
Answer: Aggressive inline skating is a form of inline skating where stunts and tricks like jumps, grinds, slides and flips are the foundation for all of the skating maneuvers. Aggressive skaters slide on edges and ledges, jump over barriers, fly around and onto structures, rotate in the air like gymnasts and defy gravity in any way humanly possible.

These maneuvers can be very dangerous, which is what gives this skating discipline an extreme, sometimes called "X," sport classification. These stunts, tricks, and maneuvers will require a very advanced level of skating skills to perform them properly and with some degree of safety.

Some aggressive inine skaters are also called freestyle rollerbladers.

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