Once you can confidently go forward, it’s time to learn how to skate in reverse. By Malia Wollan “Your mind gets twisted going backward, but your skates roll the same way in either direction ...

NPR's Kia Miakka Natisse describes how and why roller skating allows skaters, young and old, to push their bodies to the limit.

The pandemic made roller-skating popular again. For The New York Times for Kids, the photographer Christopher Payne visited Riedell Skates to see how they’re made.