Israeli Rollerblade Team Showcases Their Sport
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The Israeli rollerblade team showcase their skills at this years Tel Aviv marathon, aiming to raise the public profile of their sport. Our NTD correspondent joined them for training, and then for the big event. Let's take a look.
The Israeli professional rollerblade team arrived at the Sportech courts in Tel Aviv, to train with Eddy Matzger, winner of dozens of rollerblading competitions worldwide.
Matzger is the first person to climb mount Kilimanjaro and the Pyramids of Giza in skates.
[Eddy Matzger, Inline Skate Champion And Rollerblading Coach ]: (male, English)
"I am being skating since 1988 and I used skating at first as a mean of transportation to get from my home to my class at university, doing shopping, doing my laundry, and on a trip to Holland, where my mother was born, I saw that there is such a thing as inline speed skating."
Until recently, rollerblading has been an amateur sport in Israel.
[Itay Drori, Speed Rollerblades Skater]: (male, Hebrew)
"We have a weekly rollerblading session called Tel Aviv Rollers. We meet every Tuesday night, about three hundred skaters show up. It is one of the largest groups in Europe."
Is this a dangerous sport, and what are the advantages of learning to rollerblade?
[Eddy Matzger, Inline Skate Champion and Rollerblading Coach ]: (male, English)
"It's not dangerous if you became good at it. At first, of course, every thing is dangerous. It's like to learn a language. When you learn the language of rollers you can really enjoy yourself, you feel a sense of freedom and flying, and everything that we want to feel and forget about all your troubles".
However, rollerblading is not widely recognized in Israel.
NTD News, Tel Aviv, Israel
Reporter:Aviva Grunpeter
Photograper:Michael Ash
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The Israeli rollerblade team showcase their skills at this years Tel Aviv marathon, aiming to raise the public profile of their sport. Our NTD correspondent joined them for training, and then for the big event. Let's take a look.
The Israeli professional rollerblade team arrived at the Sportech courts in Tel Aviv, to train with Eddy Matzger, winner of dozens of rollerblading competitions worldwide.
Matzger is the first person to climb mount Kilimanjaro and the Pyramids of Giza in skates.
[Eddy Matzger, Inline Skate Champion And Rollerblading Coach ]: (male, English)
"I am being skating since 1988 and I used skating at first as a mean of transportation to get from my home to my class at university, doing shopping, doing my laundry, and on a trip to Holland, where my mother was born, I saw that there is such a thing as inline speed skating."
Until recently, rollerblading has been an amateur sport in Israel.
[Itay Drori, Speed Rollerblades Skater]: (male, Hebrew)
"We have a weekly rollerblading session called Tel Aviv Rollers. We meet every Tuesday night, about three hundred skaters show up. It is one of the largest groups in Europe."
Is this a dangerous sport, and what are the advantages of learning to rollerblade?
[Eddy Matzger, Inline Skate Champion and Rollerblading Coach ]: (male, English)
"It's not dangerous if you became good at it. At first, of course, every thing is dangerous. It's like to learn a language. When you learn the language of rollers you can really enjoy yourself, you feel a sense of freedom and flying, and everything that we want to feel and forget about all your troubles".
However, rollerblading is not widely recognized in Israel.
NTD News, Tel Aviv, Israel
Reporter:Aviva Grunpeter
Photograper:Michael Ash
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