Roller Skating Resources

Riding Technique

• An essay by Brian Wainwright on how to ride side stance.

Dealers and Manufacturers

• Alltec Skate Parks is the company of vertical roller skater Tim Altic. Have a look!
• Fearlessramps.com Vert roller skater Andy Peerless's skate park design and build company (UK).
• Hawaii Surf offers a ramp base plate with wide trucks.
• Hyper makes a lot of inline and roller skate wheels.
• Kryptonics produces the famous Kryptonics wheels.
• Netskate sells roller skates (indoor, outdoor, inline, ice) and useful tools.
• quad-skates.co.uk offers wide trucks.
• Ramp and Park is the company of Jim Rees. Great stuff!
• Riedell produces great skating boots.
• Rollkunstlauf.de sells Rollerskates (indoor, outdoor, hockey) and Parts in Germany.
• Skates on Haight (Roller Skates, Skateboards, Inlines) in San Francisco builds good Roller Skates.
• Skatepro in Denmark sells vert wheels and roller skates.
• South Eastern Skate Supply Inc is a wholesaler for roller skating stuff. They don't sell directly, but check them out to see what is available and maybe to find a rink where to get it.
• Starway is a manufacturer of decent roller skates in Switzerland.
• Supreme.dk is a danish dealer with lots of roller skate stuff. They have even ramp skates!.
• Suregrip has a lot of different base plates.
• Tracker makes trucks. They still produce freestyle trucks which can also be used for vertical roller skates.
• Vertical makes professional ramps and obstacles. The company is operated by skaters which is probably the reason why their ramps are very skateable.
• VSkate.com produces an innovative vertical roller skate.
• YoyoSkates.com offers skateboard freestyle trucks.
• www.strickywear.net is the blog of the Spanish roller skater Gambin, who makes the Strickywear baseplate for vertical roller skates.

• The National Museum of Rollerskating shows on its site some information on the history of roller skating.
• Skatepile.com has an Interview with Brian Wainwright. Look under Profiles.
• The Site of Paul (Rollerball) Jessep from Australia has some vertical roller skating pictures.
• RollerGirl is the Vertical Rollerskating Site of Lisa Suggitt from Vancouver.
• rollerskate.net lists rollerskating events for adults throughout the year and primarily in North America.
• RollerFR is a rollerskating site with lots of information (mainly in french).
• Pinkjuice.com/Rollerskating is a very nicely done Rollerskating site by Tobi Reif from Berlin. He features a page on vertical rollerskater Tim Altic.
• Team 8 — Vertical Rollerskating Gallery by Lee Ettinger.
• Skatelog.com is Kathy Fry's site which has information on everything connected to skating.
• southseaskatepark.com is the web site of the famous British park. It has some interesting vert roller skating pics.
• Pictures from the Marina Skate Park – Roller-Skate Contest 1978 can be found at www.roadskates.com
• Rollerskates.org is a self-proclaimed organisation for rollerskate culture. Seems to be a store front-page to me.
• List of roller skaters by Leon West hosted at Google docs.
• Roller Skate Everything is Ben Barret's site collecting information about every aspect of roller skating

Stuff by rollerskaters

• DeformEurope.com sculptures by vertical rollerskater Holger Sander.
• X Spot TV by Lee Ettinger documents the local heros of the Surf — Ski — Skate — Beach and Board cultures.
• Zorg and his ramp skates
• Snacksport.dk is a danish inline and rollerskate community by vertical rollerskater Morten Engmark.
• Quadskating.com is Dave VanBelleghem's website devoted to "Quad Roller Skating".
• Dying Breed Sk8s is Duke Rennie's web shop for street gear.
• René Hulgreen's web site
• Claudine Stone has put together her experience with building her vert setup.
• Irene's blog.
• Irene's MySpace presence,
• Make your own toe protectors from carbon and epoxy (by Canon).
• Biffsk8er skating on YouTube.
• Bomberator from Spain on YouTube.
• Jay's roller skate world on Gravity

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