Roller Sports Disciplines
In its bylaws, USARS acknowledges "artistic", "speed", and "hockey" discipline categories. Its membership application for individuals, however, has additional categories "noncompetitive", "recreation", "aggressive", and, in 2006, "roller derby".
- "speed" refers to inline speed skating and quad speed skating
- "artistic" refers to roller figure skating, including singles, pairs, dance, figure, and precision
- "hockey" refers to Rink Hockey formerly hardball, inline, select, and "house" roller hockey on wheeled skates
- "recreation" refers to fitness skating and jam skating (recreational dance skating)
- "aggressive" refers to aggressive skating, including speed skating and extreme inline skating
- "roller derby" is a category all its own in 2006, but was under "aggressive" previously
USARS also accepts organizations (teams and leagues) and noncompeting members (coaches and officials, typically).
Read more about this topic: USA Roller Sports
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