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I’ve merged threads again. It would be good to keep these all in one spot I think, otherwise we’re going to have 70% of our threads about one weekly pick-up game.
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.aspxThat 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.
[/quote:3qzwb8z2]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” />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?
From NZIHL.com
[quote:1kn1ov1o]19th & 20th June 2010Admirals vs Thunder
19th June Paradice Ice Skating Avondale Auckland 6.15pm
20th June Paradice Ice Skating Avondale Auckland 5pmRedDevils vs Swarm
19th June Alpine Ice Sports Center Christchurch 4.45pm
20th June Alpine Ice Sports Center Christchurch 4.45pm[/quote:1kn1ov1o]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.aspxThat 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.
IMHO, if it has ice on it and it aint natural, it’s a rink
” title=”Tongue” />This is me filling it with water:
[img:wz73tkg8]http://ryanhellyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/me-filling-the-rink.thumbnail.JPG[/img:wz73tkg8]The finished product after it froze over night (-20 deg. C temperatures helped)
[img:wz73tkg8]http://ryanhellyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/frontyardicerink.thumbnail.jpg[/img:wz73tkg8]And here’s me skating on it on Xmas day wearing the “Kiwi” clothes my mum sent me. She didn’t send me a jacket so I was skating around at -15 deg. C in a T-shirt
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[img:wz73tkg8]http://ryanhellyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/meplayinghockeyonfrontlawn.thumbnail.jpg[/img:wz73tkg8]We’ve played inline hockey on worse courts than that Kyle
” title=”Tongue” />Anyhows, square edges make for more excitement when the puck gets jammed in them
” title=”Cheesy” />We seemed to have a whole stack of separate topics about this, so I’ve just merged them all in here to keep them in one spot.
@Keith – your post made no sense whatsoever in the Stampede Trials topic so I’ve moved in here.
How dare those little punks damage your baby Ferrari!
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