Extreme In-line Skating


Book Description

This is not your father's in-line skating. Not everyone can do what these wild athletes can! Inspired by the aggressive tricks of skateboarding, extreme in-line skaters perform incredible feats on ramps, in races, and on the streets! Kids will love the shots of pros participating in* downhill racing* vertical or ramp skating




In-Line Skating


Book Description

In-line skating is fun and easy, if you know how to do it. This book covers the basics while delivering the thrill of the sport through bright photos and engaging descriptions of this popular pastime.




Aggressive In-Line Skating


Book Description

Discusses in-line skating and such moves as stalls, grabs, spins, and flips. Includes information on the necessary equipment, and highlights some famous in-line skaters.




In-Line Skating!


Book Description

Introduces the sport of aggressive in-line skating, discussing its development, equipment, basic moves, safety tips, and more.




Inline Skating in Contemporary Sport


Book Description

"An examination of its growth and development, looks at various forms of inline skating--ranging from aggressive to marathon to artistic skating--in terms of history, equipment, organizations, and inventors and stars. Rinehart also examines some of the current issues and trends within these forms of inline"--Distributor information.




Inline Skating


Book Description

Discusses the history, skates, safety, techniques, tricks, and styles--including aggressive--of inline skating.




Aggressive In-Line Skating


Book Description

Describes the history, equipment, and safety measures of aggressive style in-line skating.




We Skate Hardcore


Book Description

Accompanying DVD contains footage of the skaters featured in the book as well as additional photographs and an interview with the photographer.




Taïg Khris


Book Description

Presents a short biography of in-line skater Taïg Khris describing his entrance into professional in-line skating.




To the Extreme


Book Description

An international array of authors, including some prominent extreme athletes like Jake Burton and Arlo Eisenberg, look at a variety of issues and concerns within the new action extreme sports that are gaining popularity throughout the world. For each sport, an interpretation is presented through two essays: one written by a scholar active in some aspect of research for the given activity, and another by a practitioner/athlete who writes "from the inside out." The juxtaposed essays confront questions about the essence of sport such as, What is sport?; How does it originate?; and What is its use, value, and function? This book offers a fascinating look at how twentieth- and twenty-first-century sport forms emerge, proliferate, and take hold in a sport-crazy world.