Tour skating is a sport and recreational form of long distance ice skating on natural ice.

The Nordic style of tour skating is popular in the Nordic countries, especially Sweden, but increasingly in Finland and Norway, where it is respectively called långfärdsskridsko , retkiluistelu and turskøyting . In Canada and the USA this style is often called Nordic skating. Other names used are trip skating and wild skating.

Another style of Tour Skating, which is popular in the Netherlands, is called toerschaatsen .

While the Nordic version usually involves choosing your own tours over the ice, in the Netherlands skaters follow marked routes on frozen canals and lakes. Consequently the equipment used and safety requirements differ somewhat between these two schools of tour skating.

Nordic tour skating

Nordic skating usually involves choosing your own tours over the free ice in groups with all safety equipment. Nordic skating is only practised on free and open ice, not in tracks nor other manmade iceways. Nordic skates differ significally from the Dutch tourskates.

Nordic equipment

In addition the following safety equipment is often recommended:

Knee and elbow pads and a helmet are also commonly used.

Skating season

In January-February parts of the archipelago in the Baltic sea often freeze. This is the time when long skating tours can be undertaken. Tours of 60–80 km in one day are not uncommon - some skate over 150 km.

Associations

There is a list of tour skating clubs in Sweden, Finland and Netherlands at Skridsko Net .

Dutch tour skating

In the Netherlands, the style of Tour skating is called Toerschaatsen, where skaters follow marked routes on frozen canals and lakes, which are coordinated by the Royal Netherlands Skating Union.

Despite its moderate climate in which real cold winters are rare, skating is traditionally the most popular winter pastime in the Netherlands. Thousands of Dutch leap at the chance in cold winters to tie up their skates and glide across frozen lakes and canals, and sports stores all over the country sell out their skates.

Dutch equipment

Dutch skating tracks

Skate tracks on natural ice are maintained by the towns and communities, who take care of the safety of the tracks.

References

External links

Photo albums of tour skating

Videos of tour skating

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Bastien Salabanzi (born November 18, 1985 in Toulon, France) is a professional skateboarder. His stance is regular.

Career

Bastien finished third in the street skateboarding event at the 2004 X Games.

He won the WSR05 skateboarding contest in Rotterdam, Netherlands in 2005 and Mystic Skate Cup in Prague - the famous contest from the World Cup series held traditionally in Prague. He won also World cup in Dortmund (Globe Shoes World Skateboarding Championships) when he was only 16 years old. Münster Monster Mastership in Germany which was like unofficial World cup of Skateboarding. It was at the year of 2001. 16-year-old Bastien Salabanzi went deep into his bag of tricks to pull off a run that included a kickflip nose manual b/s 180 out into a switch 360 flip into a nollie 180 flip before switching back to his normal stance and sticking a kickflip f/s boardslide to fakie. It was a tough call for the judges but they awarded Salabanzi the win over Senn.

Around 2006 Bastien lost all his sponsors due to irreconcilable differences of opinion and returned to France.

In 2008 Bastien returns in the globe metz master getting the first place after landing a caballerial double flip.

Recently he won the adidas clash contest, and also the Tony Hawk contest.

In the 2010 Maloof Money cup held in NYC Bastien placed fourth in the pro contest.

Bastien is said to be travelling France playing the guitar, a newly found passion of his. One of his unique achievements was a switch heel flip up a 6 set of stairs.

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