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The Origin of Roller Skating
Nowadays, roller skating has been one of the interesting sports by people, not only the adults, but also some little kids. People like this game because it with a lot of challenges, but the origin of this excited sports is still unknown by many people.
Looking back to history, we will find the origin of roller skating is very interesting. It transformed by ice-skating. According to upload, the earliest roller skating was born in 1100A.D. At that time, hunters put bones on the sole of their leather boots for the purpose of hunting in winter. Scotchman Dutchman made the first roller skates in 1700A.D creatively. He hoped that he could imitate ice-skating in summer on the road, so he tried to install a wooden spool on the sole. After numerous failures and improvements, finally he succeeded to invent the roller skating in common sense. Since then, roller skating has been developed in Europe.
In the year of 1860, a musical instrument maker name Joseph Merlin in Belgium made a pair of hand crafted roller sport shoes. However, an accident happened when he brought it to the World Expo in London Britain to show those enthusiastic audiences. Because of the lack of braking, he bumped into a mirror and got hurt during the event. This accident was reported by media and caught a lot of attentions. Since then on, roller skating was regarded as “dangerous sport” for very long time.
In 1819, M. Peitibled in France made the first pair of single row roller blades which made of two or three wheels. But its configuration was not did not get popular. And in 1823, British Rober John designed a pair of roller blades with five wheels on its sole and named “Rolito”. Unfortunately, it was still welcomed by people at that time.
A pair of roller skates made by James Preston in 1863 in the US is the one in real meaning. His shoes were made by four wheels and each wheel was arranged alongside. Besides, he used metal wheels in stead of wooden wheels. Wearing this kind of roller blades, people could not only go forward, but also make turn, so it was popular by people. This invention pushed forward the development of roller skating sport greatly. In 1866, James launched the first inner roller-blading field in New York and also organized the institute of this sport. Later on, this sport was listed as the event of physical culture and sports. In the year of 1884, Richardson and Raymond in the US invented the ball bearing which played important role in improving roller blade technology.
Now this sport is accepted by the society especially young people. Knowing the history of roller blades really could broaden our minds.
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