Ten fun facts about Scootering

Fact 1
Scooters are also known as kick scooters.

Fact 2
Most scooter riders enjoy street riding, but only a small group would declare themselves as focusing strictly on street riding.

Fact 3
Street riding is also a great platform to ride as it gives interesting challenges such as gaps, grind, combinations and lines that they would not normally find in a skatepark.

Fact 4
When street riding, most scooter riders focus on cleanliness of tricks, or how easy it looks for a rider to do them.

Fact 5
Street scootering also focuses on a rider's style or original way of doing tricks or looking while riding a scooter.

Fact 6
The sport is also known as freestyle scootering.

Fact 7
Riding in skateparks is the most common form of sport.

Fact 8
Kick scooters, due to their construction, can use most structures, including rails, boxes and even vertical ramps.

Fact 9
Some riders enjoy doing “flyout” tricks and pushing their trick level. Others enjoy more of a relaxed style, based on a combination of BMX and their own style.

Fact 10
Many people enjoy doing combos of many tricks over different obstacles such as “Fly Boxes” and in an Air or 180 on a quarter.

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