One of the extreme sports that is popular today is aggressive inline skating. It is performed on specially designed aggressive skates with a focus on tricks and stunts. This type of sport mainly involves a wide variety of advanced skating maneuvers like grinds, slides and aerial tricks. Participants usually refer to the activity as rollerblading, blading or rolling.

Aggressive skating is divided into vert, park and street skating. These names refer to the environment that is being skated in. Aggressive inline skates are tougher and stronger than normal inline skates. Typically, each part can be replaced and manufacturers provide part into individual sections to make it easy for skaters to replace specific worn areas.