skateboards have been around since the 1950s. Skateboarding became popular due to the fact that it was something good surfers could do when water conditions werent good.
The earliest ice skating happened in southern Finland about 4000 years ago.
she has been skating since she was 11.
95 years
For 14 years
Ice skating has been around the longest, and started when the cavemen were around. They used to tie animal bones to their feet and skated onto frozen ice so that they could crack the ice and catch the fish underneath.
she started short track speed skating when she was 10 yrs. old.
36 years (2011)
Michelle Kwan has been skating for 24 years. She began skating in 1985 after watching her brother playing hockey.
he got his first skateboard when he was 11 and was pro at 16
Figure skating was an event in the first Winter Olympics in 1924. (Prior to that, it was actually part of the Summer Olympics in 1908 and 1912.)
since she was 4 or 5, then won Olympic gold in 1992
Speed skating has been around for hundreds of years. It was invented thousands of years ago, but the dutch in the 1200s, used the first metal blades to glide on the ice.