UrbanSkaters

It’s a scientifically proven fact that the mind doesn’t know the difference between what’s real and what’s simply being imagined. Athletes use visualisation to improve their performance all the time. Lewis Hamilton had been using visualisation before winning the F1 Canadian Grand Prix. Even before he’d set foot on the track, he had already run the race perfectly in his mind 100’s of times.  If this sounds too simple, then that’s because it really is!

When you truly immerse yourself in visualisation, your mind begins to create the same neural pathways and chemical responses, exactly as it would if you were doing it for real. More interestingly is that the part of the brain responsible for muscle movement also gets activated, resulting in noticeable muscle improvement to. Imagine being able to improve your skating technique, without even putting on your inline skates.

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The term Rollerblading comes from the trademark Rollerblade® and has always (as far back as I can remember) been incorrectly used to describe using a pair of skates where all four wheels are in a straight line, as opposed to being side by side like quad skates.

Rollerblade® is not a verb, so to say you are Rollerblading is incorrect. Rollerblade®, Salomon and K2 are all examples of company / brand names that manufacture Inline Skates. You wouldn’t say you were K2ing, or Salomoning, would you ? While you might own a pair of Rollerblades®,  when you’re wearing them you are still Inline Skating, not Rollerblading!

So when all four wheels are in a straight line, regardless of which brand you own, you should call them Inline Skates, and when you wear them you should say that you are Inline Skating.