What is the knowledge of the origin of ice skating

Ice skating is a kind of sport that people play on the ice with the help of ice skates or other equipment. It mainly includes speed skating, short track speed skating, figure skating, ice hockey and curling. Usually, people refer to ice skating as speed skating, short track speed skating and figure skating.

The earliest human ice sports can be traced back to the ancient Neolithic era. According to evidence, ice sports originated in the Netherlands. At that time, people used wooden plows as a means of transportation on the ice, and later, animal bones, which were easier to glide, replaced the wood.

The Dutch ground the horse bone into a smooth bottom, with the belt will be drilled and polished on both ends of the horse bone tied to the shoe, with the help of a cane to support the skating. This is the most primitive human ice skating tool - bone ice skates.

In the ancient times, the Nordic nomads have been using animal bones to engage in ice skating; later by the Finnish nomads into Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands and other places.

Around the 13th century, skating was already very popular in England. Because of the demand for technology and change, skating skills from fast skating straight line technology into the combination of curve, straight line, as well as the rules of the group movement. 1830 Britain set up skating clubs, began to systematically study the figure skating, with the European immigrants, ice skating has also spread to the Americas, 1850 Philadelphia, the United States, the first to develop a skate with a steel blade.

Ice skating is a sport in which (athletes) wear skates (boots) with long, thin metal blades mounted on the soles of the boots, and skate on the ice by their own power.

The world leaders in ice skating are the United States, Canada, Britain and Russia. Skating requires athletes to have strength, endurance, speed, coordination, flexibility, agility, balance, grace, stability and other qualities.