Roller sports
Roller sports is the generic term for sports performed with roller skates , inline skates or skateboards .
background
The term originally referred to those sports that were practiced with two-lane roller skates, such as figure skating or roller hockey. After the advent of single-track inline skates, the German Roller Sport and Inline Association has renamed itself accordingly and also added other sports that are performed on rollers (small, simple wheels).
Sports according to sports equipment
These sports use the sports equipment to different degrees:
- Roller hockey and roller derby are only practiced on roller skates.
- In most disciplines, figure skating is practiced on roller skates, but there is also the Inline Artistic discipline performed on special inline skates .
- Inline skater hockey (earlier skater hockey , with ball) as well as speed skating (earlier roller speed skating ) can traditionally be practiced with roller skates, but inline skates have prevailed.
- Inline hockey (with a puck ) as well as inline downhill are only practiced on inline skaters.
These sports were only adapted secondarily, the (modern) inline skates were originally developed as training equipment for summer training in ice hockey, and in this respect represent a separate sports group: Nevertheless, most of these disciplines are adaptations from winter sports (snow / ice sports): also Ice hockey is much older than field hockey; only the skateboards, originally offshoots of surfing as a water sport, have formed a new branch in winter sports in the other direction with snowboarding . Further offshoots from winter sports are:
- In a broader sense, roller skis are also part of the sport, but initially only play a role as a training method / seasonal alternative for cross-country skiing and have not yet developed into an independent sport (in terms of associations, they are still part of the ski associations, which are also increasingly summer- and organize city events).
- Grass skiing, on the other hand, as the summer ski sport on rollers / caterpillars, is rarely counted among the roller sports, the urban component of practicing on asphalt is missing.
Associations
The international umbrella organization has been the Fédération Internationale de Roller Sports (FIRS / today World Skate) since 1924 . The European umbrella organization has been the Confédération Européenne de Roller Skating (CERS) since 1976 . Excluded from this are inline skater hockey, which is organized in the International Inline Skater Hockey Federation (IISHF) and the inline figure skating category, for which the International Inline Figure Skating Association (IIFSA) at the international level and the European Inline Figure Skating Association at the European level (EIFSA) are responsible.
The German umbrella organization is the German Roller Sports and Inline Association (DRIV), which operated as the German Roller Sports Association until 1998 . In Austria, roller sports has been organized by the Austrian Roller Sports and Inline Skate Association (ÖRSV) since it was founded in 1937 , and in Switzerland since 1924 by the Swiss Roller Sports Association (SRV), with roller hockey being operated independently.
See also
- Rolling - movement type of round body
Individual evidence
- ↑ Roller sports ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 23, 2011.
- ↑ a b c Rolling Sports . In: Brockhaus / Munzinger archive . 2005-2011.
