Freeline Skates - Enhance Your Skills

Freeline skates offer a new experience for lovers of skateboarding, inline skates or roller skating the perfect opportunity for all types of skaters to transfer and also enhance their skills.

The skates are particularly beneficial to surfers and snowboarders in the UK as they allow riders to practice on dryland. The UK has just seen the introduction of Freeline Skates, which utilise the same movements as skateboarding and skating and can be used on normal slopes.

What are Freeline Skates?

Developed in San Francisco, Freeline Skates are dual independent skates that combine elements of skateboarding, surfing and snowboarding.

The skates offer a new experience for skaters, surfers and snowboarders, which requires them to utilise their existing skills and transfer them to a new manner of riding. Freeline provides a challenging and innovative way to carve big turns and invent new tricks without the need for big waves or a trip to the piste.

How do they work?

Freeline Skates can be ridden in a similar manner to a surf/snowboard with riders shifting their weight from heel to toe to change direction allowing them to carve smooth ‘S’ turns while riding downhill.

The skates are independent, but unlike roller skates and blades they are not attached the rider’s feet, this offers an added appeal to riders by allowing them to achieve high levels of traction on the flats and uphill providing a wide range of locations that are suitable for the skates.

The technical stuff

Freeline skates consist of two independent aluminium skates featuring traditional skateboard grip-tape. Each skate has two 72M custom grade polyurethane wheels, ABEC 5 bearings, and is designed with reinforced swing style arms that withstand up to 3,000 lbs. of downward force.

British Boarding

The skates offer snowboarders two huge benefits for use here in the UK. Firstly, the skates provide a new challenge to master. Whether you have a passion for skating, surfing, snowboarding or just like to try something new, Freeline provides something different to test your skills.

Secondly, as the skates use the same core skills as surfing/snowboarding, riding Freeline gives riders a good way to workout and practice especially useful for most of us who are a long way away from the waves or the slopes.