not sure how current the website is.  The storefront in chch is empty and up for lease I believe.  I would contact before plugging in credit card details but that’s just me.

there you go then

What’s wrong with the bolt on plastic blades? I have a whole stack of them sitting in the back of my car which I can’t find a home for.

Before you answer  … they’re horrid to use, and nowhere near as good as a proper stick, but when people are getting them for free, can they really complain?

Those plastic blades are perfect for road hockey.  It’s a great tool to get some cheap sticks made.  Introduce it in schools for kids to play in P.E.  Obviously those who have a certain level of skill won’t want them but they were never really made for that

Back to my original suggestion:
[quote:3qzwb8z2]If anyone is looking for ridiculously cheap sticks to provide to club members, they should consider the following combination:

http://www.sk8.co.nz/Falcon-Polycarbona … 581C0.aspx
http://www.sk8.co.nz/Composite-Black-Sh … 747C0.aspx

That gives you a composite shaft, but with a stupidly cheap $5 blade. The blades are crappy, but they’re curved, so perfect for providing to new players who haven’t yet bought their own stick and infinitely better than those dog awful straight blades you bolt onto the end of old wooden sticks.

And if they break, chances are it’ll be the blade that breaks (albeit those blades are fairly bullet proof in my experience), and then it only costs you another $5 blade to fix it.
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I’m not sure of the size of the junior ones, but the senior sized black un-branded composite sticks from SK8 were retardedly over-sized. Perhaps the Junior sized ones would be the right size for most senior players? So you could get a bunch of them for the senior players even though they’re actually Junior sticks?

Composite shafts last a lot longer than wooden shafts, so despite them being Junior sized they’d probably last longer than one piece wooden sticks.

Perhaps that could be an option for the DIHA to provide to their senior beginner players?

The only thing I’m not sure of is the durability of those polycarbonate blades in cold conditions. They held up pretty well when I was using them years ago for inline hockey on asphalt, but perhaps they would get a little brittle in cold icy conditions? – I have no idea, just spit balling a potential problem.

Has anyone had any experience with these blades on an ice rink?

The blade themselves do bend a little more than a proper laminated blade, but they’re not that bad, and at $5 a pop they’re not exactly expensive ” title=”Tongue” />