Aggressive Skating, Like Other 1990s Trends, Is Re-emerging Aggressive skating emerged in the 1990s as a flashier, niche style of roller skating. Like other ’90s trends, it has emerged again.
Inside New York’s Throwback Roller-Skating Extravaganza Music is the key to a summertime experience for pros and amateurs called the DiscOasis in Central Park. Its curator: the funk-disco guru and lifelong skater Nile Rodgers.