Saturday, 8 March 2014

¿How the line skates were invented?


Joseph Marlin
The first skate of the story appeared in 1760 by Belgian musician Josep Merlin, who came up with the idea of ​​entering the costume party, fiddling with boots, which added a metal wheels. The next day the whole town was talking about the idea of ​​Merlin. 
It is known that in 1819, M. Pertitbled patented in the city of Paris, on the first three-wheeled skates online. From then until 1859, all designs of the shoes have a set of wheels but varying the number of these. The major drawback of these was the low mobility offering. There were many more advances in manufacturing, such as in London by Robert John Tyers in 1823.

James Plimton
When modern skating began was in 1863 by the American James Plimton that found a way to give more mobility to move forward, backward, etc., your idea is based on the use of four wheels, two in front and two behind, which is known as today as the axle or quad skates. In the years after the skate axis was very popular but also is trying to inline skate has the same fame.
 And in 1980 Scott and Brennan Olson brothers redesigned the shoe with a boot hokey, polyurethane wheels and adding a brake rubber in the heel, thus, fixed that could skate perfectly, then born the legendary brand "Rollerblade Inc."


It appeared the great revolution skate with the "clap skate" at the beginning of 1990 the German manufacturers Vings & Raps. Since then, new designs were appearing, brand new sports until today not stop researching to create new models.

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Monday, 3 March 2014

Welcome to Skating by the world

Welcome to all visitors of "Skating by the world" with this space we intend to share with you all the places we visit and also skating do some sightseeing .

To start, let's introduce ourselves, we are Erik del Val and Carolina Rivera from Spain, two young lovers of culture and skating. Our blog mix both, visits to famous cities of our country and also from other countries. 

Another point that we will discuss is the main reason why we have taken this step to create this website because in the future we dedicate ourselves to the world of tourism and believe it is a wonderful idea to start. 

Other than that we'd love you to leave your opinion in the comments, as this is very important to us and we would be grateful.