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Info About Nordic Skating

Nordic Skating

At the beginning of the 90’s Nordic skating (a somewhat quaint version of other Nordic products) was developed during the Nordic trend. Nordic skating simulates the movement of open-air ski skating, without snow, which was already possible with the roller skiing or roller ski skating. In the strictest sense, roller skiing in the skating style falls under the category of Nordic skating. First, the ultimate Nordic skating was exercised on inline skates. Due to the upcoming inline skater trend many sportsmen already owned inline skates. Only the poles were missing for a new sport to be born. Although special inline devices were developed for the Nordic skating, this sport is still is a bit unattractive to the masses due to it’s high accident risk. For this version complete protective equipment is strongly recommended. The Nordic inline skating is also called Nordic blading.

In the meanwhile, Nordic skating can be enjoy in a much safer way with pneumatic tired cross-skates; these also work for off-roading. In the 90’s, there were sporadic cross-skates coming onto the market, but for different reasons they were not accepted. Since then, Powerslide and Skike have been manufacturing robust cross-skates for daily training and to get the trend going. You can classify Nordic skating as a mixture of cross-skating; which is only possible with pneumatic tired skate; and street skating. On even grounds the second version can be played with all skates and roller skiers containing plastic rollers. Cross-skates also work on streets as well without any problems.

Health Benefits

The physical benefit and the trainings effect of the Nordic skating are similar to that of the cross-country skiing. However, due to the increased speed in the Nordic skating on plastic rollers, the muscles in the arms, the upper part of the body and the torso cannot be trained as effectively as in cross-country skiing. Braked or catchier rollers not only provide an improved training effect but also make sure that potential falls take place at lower speeds. With their pneumatic tires cross-skates have exactly this advantage and thus have become more and more widely accepted.

Training Ground

When using plastic rollers Nordic skating is limited to wide asphalt streets. Pneumatic tires offer the possibility to choose more training routes such as off-road, side streets and bicycle lanes, where even the poles can grab better and more comfortablely.