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Ryan
Posted: Oct 14 2005, 07:20 PMEz-Glide synthetic ice
It seems we didn’t need an ice rink after all tongue.gif
Although, at US$206 per panel, that means US$116,000 for a whole 60*30 rink!
Jack
Posted: Oct 14 2005, 07:34 PMWow, pretty funky tho tongue.gif bet the spectators wouldn’t get so cold either!
Timmah
Posted: Oct 25 2005, 12:43 PMthat stuff looks crazy. I wonder if you can do a sliding stop on it? and if so, what happens to all the “would be snow like spray” that you normally get?
still, id love to see some of that in action
Ryan
Posted: Oct 25 2005, 03:03 PMQUOTE (Timmah @ Oct 25 2005, 12:43 PM)
I wonder if you can do a sliding stop on it?You can. Have a look at the some of the videos on their site.
Jack
Posted: Oct 28 2005, 02:55 PMYou know, theoratically, if each player in dihl buys a panel of this stuff, we could potentially have our own rink!!! muahahah!!!
Ryan
Posted: Oct 28 2005, 05:17 PMQUOTE (Jack @ Oct 28 2005, 02:55 PM)
You know, theoratically, if each player in dihl buys a panel of this stuff, we could potentially have our own rink!!! muahahah!!!No we couldn’t wink.gif There’s ~563 panels per rink. At last count we had like 80 something people in the dihl. If everyone purchased seven panels each then we could build a whole rink biggrin.gif Er, I’m not keen on paying $1400 for seven panels of a rink angry.gif Nice idea though cool.gif
Timmah
Posted: Nov 3 2005, 03:30 PMdam. 7 pannels… thats a lot. and they would only last for 2 or so years of heavy use… still nice idea in the long run.
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To follow on from my post from Oct 14 2005 …
There was a party in Christchurch last night where they brought in some of this synthetic ice. Apparently it was extremely hard work to skate on and blunted peoples skates within 10 mins and after that it was difficult to stop on it.
I’m not sure if it was exactly the same type as the Ez-Glide, but I can’t imagine there’s much more to it than some super dense plastic with some silicon grease sprayed on top, so I assume it’ll behave the same.
I tried one of these today. It was as slippery as heck, but brand new though and they apparently get grippier once they’re broken in. Seems like it would work okay. I could hockey stop on it, although I’d be a bit dubious about doing it at speed – I think you’d tend to wipe out as you would slide quite a long way.
The one I tried was an Ez-glide one which is apparently different to the one in Christchurch.
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