Eli5: Is there a reason roller skates and roller blades don’t have spring shocks?

Question

I was thinking about this the other day…skateboards are flexible, bike tires are bouncy. Why aren’t there “performance” skates with shocks? Wouldn’t that be better for your knees?

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Answer 1

Roller skates don’t hurt your knees unless you’re talking about doing tricks? Which very few people do. For rough pavement, I recently bought inline skates with larger than normal wheels and they are such an improvement, able to go over somewhat rough pavement and bumps pretty easily.