History of Roller Hockey

Roller Hockey is a kind of game that's performed on dry surfaces such as cement, wood or sports tile with wheeled skates. Depending on the rules and strategies in addition to the gear utilized, there are two kinds of roller hockey categories namely Quad hockey and Inline Hockey. This is a brief history of Roller sport, Roller Hockey and its evolution since 1760.

John Joseph Merlin invented the first pair of Roller hockey skates in 1760 at London. Folks were very addicted to Ice Hockey that they wanted to play the game, even after the winter. So they began play on hard dry lands with the help of roller skates and the very first roller hockey quad game was played in 1878 in England.

The International Roller Sports Federation (IRSF), was founded in 1924 in Stuttgart, Germany whereas the first world championship of roller hockey was organized in 1936. But, Quad Hockey was very much slower, even if Quad hockey was a substitute for ice hockey.

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In 1940, Roller Skating Rink Operators Association (RSROA) released a revised set of rules for roller hockey to regained the attention of individuals which was then subsequently named as Puck Roller Hockey. In 1960s, Olsen brothers redefined the inline hockey skating shoes. In 2005, it was introduced into World Games.

In 1980, the Firm Roller Blade invented modern version of this Inline Skate and it began to be a phrase players used to describe this hockey sport on wheels with their roller blades. At this time roller hockey player began to shift into the inline skate that was more manoeuvrable than quad skate to play Puck Hockey and Puck Hockey immediately took over in popularity over the quad roller hockey. Over the past 3 decades, various levels of governing bodies began to form, the name “Inline Hockey” was used to identify this sport.

As Time has gone by, the country where the sport of Inline Hockey is popular is the nation that refers to it as roller hockey. The technical word to describe the game inline roller hockey, although It's right to refer this game as Roller Hockey or Inline Hockey.

Even Having a great deal of similarity with ice hockey, roller hockey enjoys popularity all around the world. The degree excitement during the play in addition to the simple rules helps it achieve a huge recognition. In certain countries such as Portugal, Spain and South American nations, it's hugely popular besides football and basketball.

The World Roller Hockey World Cup is the global championship for roller hockey arranged by World Skate.  As of 2019, after the mix between International Skateboarding Federation and the FIRS, the World Cup is an event of the bigger World Roller Games. Only five nations have taken the Roller Hockey World cup, Spain winning seventeen times, Portugal winning sixteen times, Argentina winning five times, Italy winning four times, and England winning twice.

After the invention of the first pair of Roller hockey skates in 1760, Roller Hockey became quite popular in European Nations.   A Few of the states where Roller hockey is quite popular comprise Portugal, Chile, Italy, Argentina Africa, Egypt, and USA, England, Germany, Switzerland, Brazil, France.