For some reason, the list differentiates between Skating (81,050 injuries) and In-line Skating (16,701) but combining the two gets you a grand total of 97,751. For both sets, the highest rate of injury occurs in 5-14-year-olds, suggesting that a lot of those injuries happen when kids are learning to skate and therefore falling over a lot. Another study of 186 roller-skating injuries gives the average age as 25.3, but also says skaters had a higher chance of being injured if they didn’t do other sports, “especially on their first try”. So it’s only dangerous if you don’t know what you’re doing – the problem is the stage you go through when you’re trying to figure out what you’re doing…and that’s where the fractures and soft-tissue injuries occur…