Skating is a very expensive sport and there's no way that you can do it without help from your country.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

' So I told myself, no results anymore, just skating.

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There's no complicated story line or rendered cut scenes in-between skating -- you simply grind, gleam, and glide through ten different skate areas including classics like Burnside in Portland or the streets of San Francisco.

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"No one had ever heard of this sport, and there are maybe only three skating rinks in the U.K., " says Ms. Welch.

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