History of Ice Skating

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Ice skating was one of the sports made for winter. It's a sport that uses the art of ballet. But how do we know who created it and why? And what about the skates? How they changed over the years. This is a great sport, that's why this essay is about it. Around the year 1801, a scientist was trying to help his studen6ts have fun learning about formulas so he created ice skating. A scot man named Mr. Dunbar Poole, arrived in Adelaide around 1903 to find a group of well minded people interested in ice skating. They opened a rink in Hindley street in a building formely used as a cycloroma. Later when the Adelaide rink closed, the parts were taken to Melbourne were Mr. Newborn Reid ran the Melbourne Glaciarium. The original Glaciarium was an early artificial rink in London in the nineteenth century. A year later ice skating started in Australia. The oldest pair of skates none back to about 3000 B.C. found at the bottom of a lake in Switzerland. The skates were made from the leg bones of a large animal, holes were bored at each end of the bone and leather straps were used to tie the skates on. Around the 14th century, the Dutch started using wooden platform skates with flat iron bottoms runners. This skates were attached to the skaters shoes with leather straps. After a while the Dutch finally added a narrow metal doubled edged blade, making the poles a thing of the past. In 1865, Jackson Haines a famous American skater developed the two plate of metal blade and sense then the skates have been inproving. Ever since the 1800s when American ballet master Jackson Haines treated Ice Roller skating as an art form. Skating had moved from a pleasant pastime to ayear round sport. By the turn of the century, ice skating was proffesional and very popular with the public. During the nineteenth century ice skating wasn't so popular in Mahattan but in 1866, the new sport had

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