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Skate FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) is a general inline skating reference, as well as an answer guide to some of the more common questions that inline skaters ask.

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  • General Questions and Answers
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  • Buying Guide for Inline Skates
  • Guide to Buying Used Inline Skates
  • Buying Women's Skates (new)
  • Buying Small Skates and Kid's Skates
  • Braking and Stopping
  • Skating Backwards
  • SKating Downhill
  • Stairs, Grinds, and Rails
  • Vert and Jumps
  • Slalom
  • Inline Figure Skating
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    • MARKETPLACE WHERE TO SKATE
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  • Wheels, Bearings, and Hop-up kits
      Article 1: Wheeling Around
      Article 2: ABEC = HYPE?
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    This Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) file is Copyright © 1992-2000 by Anthony D. Chen and is made available as a service to the Internet community. It may not be sold on disk, tape, CD-ROM, packaged or incorporated with any commercial product, or published in print, without the explicit, written permission of the copyright holder.

    This material may not be mirrored on any World Wide Web, gopher or ftp site. The sole exception is the FAQ Archive at MIT (rtfm.mit.edu) and its mirror sites.

    This FAQ may be cited as:

    Chen, Anthony D. (1996) "rec.sport.skating.inline Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)" Usenet rec.sport.skating.inline, available via WWW: http://www.skatefaq.com
    (Reprinting information)

    Disclaimer:
    This file is presented with no warranties or guarantees of ANY KIND including correctness or fitness for any particular purpose. The author(s) of this material have attempted to verify correctness of the data contained herein; however, slip-ups can and do happen. If you use this info, you do so at your own risk.