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"Kyle":vipcxaub wrote:Can you take the DIHL stuff down off the web site please.[/quote:vipcxaub]
Done
er, sure
what is changing? and should I remove it all?
At this stage I’ll just yank the stuff about times and prices and leave the rest
"Kyle":35smpdjg wrote:you damn person who never put in a form for last years DIHL.[/quote:35smpdjg]I’m fairly sure I sent you a new version of the DIHL contact list with Chris’s details on it last year.
Ryan,
I spoke to Deanna Pielak-Jones the other day about what progress had been made on the construction of the shooting gallery/training area.
They asked James Van Leeuwen for a quote on construction costs last year and are waiting to hear back from him.
Their plan is to surround the area with nets rather than walls to keep the puck in and also allow spectators to view without getting hit by pucks. Nets would also likely be significantly cheaper than real walls and have plenty of ‘give’ if you crashed into them. A wall may be necessary for the end of the area though as there’s an air conditioning radiator there which you wouldn’t want to risk any pucks hitting.
Ryan,
I’ve been doing some more research here:
http://www.modsquadhockey.com/forums/in … ntry404978That Ultra High Molecular Weight (UHMW) polyurethane seems to be a possible option. It’s what the pad at SK8 is made of and is supposedly the best material for using ice pucks on (apart from ice of course!).
I’m not sure how good it is for use with inline skates though, but I suspect it would be adequate. I called up Ryan Wick at SK8 today and he tried an inline skate on it and reckoned it would grip well enough, although it would be hard to gauge accurately without skating flat stick and trying to turn or stop on it.
There are also ice pucks which have pegs added, just like an inline puck, so that they can be used on inline hockey surfaces, there is an example here:
[url:mj01ds5u]http://www.americanhockeycenter.com/hockey_pucks.htm[/url:mj01ds5u]Now the question is … “where the heck do you buy large sheets of UHMW polyurethane?/”
"Azzy77":3p7a916i wrote:I am telling you miniture ice, built like the curling rink so it can frozen and unfrozen is the only way to fly, well skate, if you want to replicate ice nothing beats ice[/quote:3p7a916i]Lol, yes, that would be nice <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/smiley.gif" alt="
” title=”Smiley” /> Unfortunately extremely expensive too.Ryan,
That green rubbery stuff was only slippery for some people, presumably because your wheels were doing something weird with it. It was the grippiest stuff I have ever skated on. Nothing else is as grippy apart from maybe polyurethaned wood.
And yeah I’ll have a fit if that stuff got put in there! It’s particularly bad for puck handling and slow as hell for skating on. The concrete underneath would be much better.
"Azzy77":2p8r2t1t wrote:Whats the stuff upstairs at clubs and socs, i was messing round with a ice puck up there during clubs and socs day and it was responding quite well.
it was rubbery[/quote:2p8r2t1t]I assume the puck will come to a stop pretty quickly if you pass it along the surface more than a few meters. Much like how the Dunedin Stadium surface behaved – that green stuff round the ice rink.
It’s also shit to skate on as you sink into it, it’s even worse than the green stuff as the rubber is thicker.
Ryan,
"Tom":1zi6r0c5 wrote:Ultra High Molecular Wieght Polyetheline is supposed to be quite good for pucks
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Does anyone know what type of plastic this Ice Court is ?[/quote:1zi6r0c5]Ice Courts and Sport Courts are made of plastic tiles which clip together. They have holes, dimples and stuff which collect the dust so that roller hockey wheels don’t slip on it. Plus I think the holes help make the puck slide better. I haven’t tried a Sport or Ice Court, just the Palmerston North rink, but the puck definitely slid incredibly well, better than ice infact, albeit I only tried it with inline pucks not a big fat rubber ice hockey puck.
"Chris":1zvm4vog wrote:Cascading StyleSheets freak me out, which is why mine is as basic as I can get away with! :lol:[/quote:1zvm4vog]They’re easy once you get your head round how they work.
I can rip through your code with a fine tooth comb and point out how to fix all the bugs if you want (there’s quite a few in there – I had a look the other day). I find that’s the easiest way to learn this stuff. I gave this site to a bunch of nerds I found on the net about 8 months ago and got back a few 5 page documents outlining various corrections! I learned more from that than I ever did just practicing by myself.
Ryan,
"Chris":2bdyut1h wrote:Basically, we are looking at various types of inline surfaces for practise, yeah?[/quote:2bdyut1h]Man, I’m obviously not very good at explaining this am I!
Yes, you are absolutely correct. Synthetic ice = bad, inline surface = what we’re talking about now.
"rookie#19":2zgaw6mt wrote:No offence or anything, but this ice court thing doesnt make sense, I imagine there would be a whole lot more maintenance, and think about it: A razor sharp blade cutting into some plastic surface had got to do some serious damage!! I just cant see how this type of surface would work without a whole lot of maintenance we dont really want to put up with.
I fully agree with you on the fact that we need the closest thing we can get to ice, so that training is as effective and applicable to ice as possible. However any practice is good practice and the fundamentals are the same, if you can shoot top-shelf on an inline surface, chances are you can do this on ice as well!! [/quote:2zgaw6mt]Sorry, I obviously haven’t explained myself here. You’ve totally missed the point of what an Ice Court is.
An Ice Court [b:2zgaw6mt]IS[/b:2zgaw6mt] an [b:2zgaw6mt]INLINE HOCKEY RINK[/b:2zgaw6mt]. Synthetic ice is a different kettle of fish altogether and is in no way related to an Ice Court, they’re totally different beasts.
There are two major brands in inline hockey rink surfaces, Sport Court and Ice Court. They’re much the same, it’s just that Ice Courts are a newer design which apparently has a lower amount of friction rather than a Sport Court brand rink. They were used for the Worlds a year or so ago I think – I have a vague memory of John Thomsen telling me about them a while back.
But yeah, it’s possible that the Palmerston North design is a good option. Personally I didn’t like skating on it and most of the players I know that have played on Ice and Sport Courts thought that it was quite inferior to either of them. But it is apparently cheaper and available locally so is definitely an extremely good option to try out. Also, the problems with the Palmerston North rink were mainly to do with hockey stopping at high speed which was a nightmare as you skim the gaps in the plastic and just wipe out. Stopping at low speeds was a piece of cake though, even stopping at mediumish speeds was fine. However we’re never going to get up to a high speed in a tiny training rink so that’s not an issue anyway.
Ryan,
Well my contact in Canada just got back to me! She asked one of her coaches for some advice on the issue and they’ve suggested an inline surface was a better option than a synthetic surface as well. The crazy thing is, the coach she asked actually knew me. It is Eric Mann! What a small world we live in!
For any of you who don’t know him, Eric Mann used to play here in Dunedin.
Ryan,
