WHATS IN A NAME ? | EXAMINING HOW TO ACCURATELY DESCRIBE SKATING TO THE MASSES
from Be-Mag on 29 Jan 2023
WORDS: CONTRIBUTING EDITOR DEVON BABIN, @WORDSMITH1982. In skating’s heyday of the ‘90s and early ‘00s, when countless people all over the globe were embracing a new and exciting sport in hoards, the challenge was to differentiate one form of inline skating from another. Along with inline hockey, freestyle, dance, racing, and others, “aggressive skating” was unofficially adopted to describe “our” type of skating to the general public. With a group of mostly angsty teenagers grinding handrails and ledges, hucking themselves […]
