Inline aggressive skate

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Aggressive skating came from inline skating. Aggressive skating is a different form of inline skating. It involves grinds, spins, grabs, flips and more. Aggressive skating was born in the 1980s. It first started with people jumping over barriers and doing spins in the air. The first grind was the "frontside." It was invented by Chris Edwards who is a legend in the sport. After that, all skaters during that time were trying to invent new tricks to help the sport grow. Many new tricks came about in the late 80's and early 90s. Today there are many different variations of the tricks such as alley-oop, truspin, and topside. Also skaters today are doing spins and grabs in and out of grinds to make the trick harder. There are also different types of skating. Vert skating is a half pipe which gets vertical at the top of the ramp. Street skating is where skating was born, and involves skaters going around cities and towns grinding hand rails, grinding ledges, jumping stairs, turning anything on the regular street into an obstacle. To be an aggressive skater, you have to be brave and smart, not killing yourself off a jump you know you couldn't have made.

There is also park skating(a form of street skating, on purposely built terrain). As long ago as the early 90s inline skates have been seen at outdoor and indoor skateparks, first built and named for skateboards.