Aggressive inline skating

A form of inline skating centered on jumps, grinds, and other tricks performed on urban obstacles or purpose-built ramps.

Inline skate: A boot-mounted frame of wheels arranged in a single line. Aggressive skates adapt inline-skate equipment for impact, control, and grinding.
Grind (skateboarding): A wheeled-sport trick in which a rider slides along an obstacle using a board, frame, or skate surface. Aggressive inline grinds belong to this broader family of sliding tricks.
Rollerblade: An American company that popularized modern inline skates beginning in the 1980s. The brand helped bring inline skating to a mass audience before aggressive skating took shape.
Freestyle slalom skating: An inline-skating discipline involving precise maneuvers around rows of small cones. Slalom emphasizes footwork and cone patterns rather than grinds and obstacle-based tricks.
Soul grind: A grind in which one skate slides on its soul plate while the other foot supports the stance. The soul plate provides a broad surface for a foundational aggressive-skating grind.
Air (extreme sports): A maneuver in which a rider leaves a ramp or transition and becomes airborne before landing. Jumps turn ramps and transitions into opportunities for aerial tricks.
USD Skates: A skate company known for producing equipment designed for aggressive inline skating. Purpose-built aggressive skates helped establish the sport's specialized equipment market.
Speed skating: Competitive skating focused on covering a course as quickly as possible. Speed skating prioritizes pace and efficiency, unlike aggressive skating's trick-centered goals.
Royale grind: A grind performed with the skates angled inward and their frames or grind surfaces sliding along an edge. Its inward-angled stance distinguishes a technical grind from soul-based positions.
Skateboarding trick: A deliberate maneuver performed on a skateboard, often involving rotation, jumping, or sliding. Many trick principles and obstacle approaches are shared across skateboarding and aggressive skating.

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