Once you can confidently go forward, it’s time to learn how to skate in reverse. By Malia Wollan “Your mind gets twisted going backward, but your skates roll the same way in either direction,” says ...

This is a moment for roller skating. Old-school, four-wheeled roller skates—“quads,” skaters call them—gliding on oval floors underneath disco lights, or aggressively digging into outdoor trails.

March 31 (UPI) --A Canadian circus performer was awarded a Guinness World Record when she strapped on a pair of high-heeled inline skates and skated 328 feet in 21.52 seconds -- while facing backward.

If there was ever a scene to put to rest doubt that roller skating is back, big time, it would be here on the open beachfront blacktop of Newport Elementary School on the Balboa Peninsula, where ...