Freestyle scootering

[5] This team included riders such as Josh Toy, John Radtke and KC Corning.

As the sport progresses, businesses and systems have been created to support the growth of the scootering community.

A similar forum for the French scooter community, Trotirider, was created by Fabian Delos[9] around the same time.

After all, the foldable scooters were created for simpler transportation and not intended for freestyle use, which meant they were light weight and not very heavy duty.

However, this also meant that (due to the threads) the thickness of the fork-tube was thinner than necessary compared to a threadless bicycle fork.

After seeing improvements to both forks, bars and wheels, the next big step was to eliminate the play in the Razor scooter decks folding mechanism.

[6] Since then, the evolution of the scooter deck has changed a lot and gone in different directions depending on the preferred terrain of the rider.

With the introduction of the threadless fork there was a need for a compression system to make it work together with the rest of the scooter.

In later years there has been several additions to the list of compression systems, mostly to reduce weight by not utilising a clamp as large as the SCS.

Since then, the world championships have been held annually, with exception of the year 2020 due to restrictions as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The winners are listed below:[14] There are discussions about including scootering as a new sport in the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

[15] The title Rider of the Year (also known as ROTY) is awarded annually by the online scooter media outlet Trendkill Collective.

[16] The award is given to the scooter rider voted the best or most impactful that year based on things such as the video footage produced, performance in contests/street jams and overall presence and impression.