U20 roller hockey European Championships 2016: Results of the quarterfinals
The U20 European roller hockey European Championships 2016, which are be held in Pully, Switzerland, were continued this Thursday with the quarterfinals. The first team that qualified playing against...
View ArticleU20 rink hockey European Championships 2016: Summary of the semifinals
The U20 rink hockey European Championships 2016, which are held in Pully (Switzerland), were continued on Friday with the semifinals. At first they played for the places 5 to 8, then for the places 1...
View ArticleNations that dominate the rink hockey
Each roller sport is dominated by a few specific nations. In rink hockey, these are the Iberian peninsulas and South America. Explanations by Jean Lassueur...
View ArticleHow to clean and take care of your bearings?
As an essential part of your skates’ performance, your bearings have to be closely looked after. You don’t always necessarily have to dismantle them. But if this is the only option left, here are a...
View ArticleA sneaky look into the future: What could roller sports be like in 20 years?
New years are opportunities to look to the future, so why not imagining the evolution of our ways of practicing skating in the upcoming 20 years? Here are our forecasts...
View ArticleHow to Choose Your Skates?
Esthetics set aside — being a very personal criterion —, choosing a pair of skates, inlines or quads, lies on many objective criteria, varying according to several parameters: type of practice,...
View ArticleGuided Tour of the 2017 Roller Games Facilities in Nanjing, China (1/3)
The Annual General Ordinary Congress of the FIRS took place on March 11th, 2017, in Nanjing. The participants had the opportunity to visit the facilities of the next Roller Games. The OLS Team was...
View ArticleGuided Tour of the 2017 Roller Games Facilities in Nanjing, China (2/3)
Part Two of our guided tour of the facilities and fittings of the 2017 Roller Games in Nanjing, China. Here are the places and spots hosting the opening ceremony, the aggressive skating and...
View ArticleVisiting the World Roller Museum in Nanjing, China
While visiting the facilities of the next Roller Games in Nanjing, we had the opportunity of visiting the FIRS World Roller Museum, which opened for the Speed Skating World Championships in September...
View ArticleAll about skate bearings
It is hard to rely on serious information as for the quality of bearings and the real needs met by skaters. Consumers are often overwhelmed by a torrent of technical terms and hazy marketing concepts....
View ArticleAnatomy of an inline skate wheel
Wheels are the centerpieces of a skate and its only contact with the ground. They condition skating according to numerous parameters: their shape, their diameter, their hardness, the flexibility of...
View ArticleHow to extract bearings from wheels?
Extracting bearings: the task is not as easy as it seems. You have to manage to take them off without damaging them. The best thing is to push in the axis, but sometimes it’s quite a business...
View ArticleEquipment: Choosing your wrist guards
Falls on the wrists are more than a third of the traumas recorded in the casualty departments of hospitals taking skaters in. It is quite normal, given that you instinctively try to absorb you fall...
View ArticleMaintenance of inline skate boots
Inline skate boots can be of different nature: rigid, flexible or fifty-fifty. They need to be checked as regularly as the other parts of your skates: holes, hygiene, wearing out are so many points...
View ArticleThe maintenance of your skate frame
The frames of your skates can be made of plastic, composite or metal. The cleaning procedure is the same whatever their composition. Get a sponge, a cloth, a toothbrush, bathroom tissue and follow the...
View ArticleThe FIRS, the International Federation of Roller Sports: From its origins to...
The bodies ruling roller sports at national or international levels often seem far and their task unclear to us. Let's take a look into the history and the role of the FIRS to know more about it...
View ArticleThe manufacturing processes of skate frames
The frame is a key-part of our skates. Its shape, its length and its rigidity vary according to the discipline and the needs of the skater. Made of composite or polyurethane, they are molded or...
View ArticleAnatomy of Skate axles and spacers
The axles and spacers insure the consistency between the frame and the wheels and bearings. They partly determine the performance according to their materials, their thickness and their rigidity. Focus...
View ArticleRecent technological innovations for skate wheels
Our wheels have been turning for nearly 250 years. Wood, ivory, metal, tire, rubber or urethane... Wheels have been made of all kinds of materials. Technological innovations gave a fresh boost to...
View ArticleSkating Wheels manufacturing
We frequently complain about their price, their excessive wear, how they slip too much or stick excessively. We praise for their rolling qualities, their rebound, and their reactivity. No doubt, our...
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