An adrenaline junkie has taken in-line skating to new heights and set a new world record after racing down a roller coaster at speeds of 56mph.
Dirk Auer decided to go where no sane man or woman had gone before and skated down an 860 metre track in just over a minute.
Wearing specially designed in-line skates, the German made the attempt on the Mammoth roller coaster at the Trips Drill theme park in Stuttgart…Â Details & pictures
Former world champion inline skater Shane Dobbin is launching an audacious bid for the Winter Olympics in Vancouver next year.
The former Palmerston North resident is now based at Hoogeveen in the Netherlands to make the most of the year-round ice facilities.
“Why stop my inline career while I was pretty much still at my peak?” Dobbin said. “The answer is simple – Olympics…Â Details
Mr. Walters is going to Washington. And he’ll be getting there on in-line skates.
Gary Walters on Wednesday announced his latest Kinship Partners challenge, in-line skating for almost a month from Brainerd to Washington, D.C., with his son, Jackson.Â
Gary Walters’ Kinship challenges are an effort to raise funds and awareness for Kinship Partners, the nonprofit organization that matches adult mentors with children.Â
In 2003, he biked from Baxter to New Orleans. In 2004, he camped out for more than a week on top of Brainerd’s historic water tower. In 2005, he walked the length of Minnesota in 17 days. In 2006, he swam across Lake Mille Lacs. In 2007, he lost 100 pounds in a year. In 2008, he unicycled around the track at Adamson Field.
He got the idea for this year’s challenge during a …Â Details
Video Inline Skating – Inline Skater @ Relentless NASS 2009 – Whilst filming the indoor arena at NASS we caught this inline skater do an awesome move then see what happened next. Ouch !!