Talk:Freeskates

Hello everyone, it's clear that the article in its current state is poor in a lot of ways: advertisement-like, inadequate information, ...

I started a draft in my userspace to just rewrite this article. It's still a WIP, with a temporary outline and scrap content, but my goal is to create a nice, well-sourced article in the line of Skateboard and Skateboarding. I will continue to work on this over time, but feel free to contribute!

There are a couple of issues I want to "talk" about:

• As many of you know, Freeline Sports, Inc. is no more. There is a spiritual successor however, JMK Ride. In my Freeline environment this has left confusion about the naming. That confusion already existed with fake Freeline skates, but what is fake now? I see two general terms in use: drift skates (you could do a search for that on eg. Amazon.com and come up with Freeline skates) and freeskates, mainly in Asian media. With freeskates there should be a disambiguation (page) between 1. Freeskating as a program in figure skating, 2. Freeskating as "city inline skating", tough general purpose inline skates (example: Seba's FR series),3. This. Since this is an encyclopedia, I'm in favor for the use of a general term as a title at this time. What are your thoughts on this?
• Finding good sources (about the history etc) will be a challenge with the freelineskates.com site down and everyone doing their own thing now.
• Probably important: how detailed should this subject be covered? Do we need a "Freeline skate" page seperated from "Freeline skating? I personally don't think so, we don't have decennia of history and community information like skateboarding.

My background: I'm an inline skater, a beginning skateboarder and I have experience riding Freeline skates in various forms for a little more than a year now: as transport, skatepark riding, European meetings etc. A profile page of me exists on the Freeline Belgium site.

These neat little skates, the creative community surrounding them but above all uninformed people deserve a better article, hopefully we can write that article. Th0rgall (talk) 01:40, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

It's cool to see that someone else is interested in improving this page. I think that freeskates would be the most appropriate term for the sport in this setting; I agree with your comment about creating a disambiguation page to differentiate the skate from the program in figure skating.

I've read through your draft a little bit, and so far I like what I see. You've got a couple of really good sources gathered there, and you have a good outline for the article drafted.

I noticed that you've included blanks for information that has yet to be researched or cited. I think it would be worthwhile to pull what you have so far into the main article, and hang on to the blanks in the draft so that we can come back to them later.

We may consider investigating the Spanish and Japanese pages a little more. Both of them seem to have more information than the current English page. I probably know enough Spanish to eek out a rough translation, but I would struggle with the Japanese. That said, neither page has better references, so I'm not sure how worthwhile it would be. Raspberry Curator (talk) 16:12, 14 June 2020 (UTC)

Old talk

There's actually a third model out. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.33.11.62 (talk) 22:54, 24 April 2013 (UTC)

Hey, Freeliners, there's gotta be more info than this we can provide here. What's missing? Kremmit (talk) 05:46, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

• I removed the portion on company history because it read like a poorly written advertisement. The only relevant part was the name of the founder, which does not need a separate section. I added it to the main topic. 75.67.87.90 (talk) 04:11, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Hey, there seems to be a lot of dodgy information on this page! Are freelines really faster than *most* bicycles? I've started seeing this information cited elsewhere (by lazy bloggers!) and find it really hard to beileve. I'm not a huge expert as I've only started skating recently but there must be a lot more information than we have here! Josh Denness (talk) 12:22, 27 December 2011 (UTC)

A bit late now, but no, I don't think they're faster than riding a bicycle. I have a pair of Freeline OG skates and haven't been able to cruise at bicycle speeds without spending a *lot* of energy. A group of Japanese Freeline skaters released a rather informal 50m time trial video with times from about 10 riders. The fastest was about 10 seconds and the average was maybe 15 seconds. Destynova (talk) 00:39, 6 January 2017 (UTC)