Sprung Hockey

[scorpionhockey55 0]

First of all, if you sent in a pre-order for A6Xs or A6X arm/spring sets, or A7s, consider your order paid for except for the shipping.

So, are you saying that instead of paying the other half of our order cost plus shipping we now only have to pay the shipping cost?! If so, that's awesome!

[sharks25 9]

Is there a certain way to put them together? Im having difficulty getting the arms with the spring into the body. They seem slightly too long, anyone else with this problem? I need to put them together for a friend, and give them to him tonight. Thanks guys!

[fatwabbit 93]

you'll need to squeeze them together with the spring and put them in place. you then use the long pivot pin ti kicated the holes and secure it in place.

new springs and arms tend to be very stiff, but once you have them in place and they settle in a little, they work perfect!~

[scorpionhockey55 0]

Hey, Keith. Any updates on when we will start seeing the preorders ship?

[shaaddy 0]

We still have plenty of A7/8 arms in stock, because it is very hard to break one and there have only been a hand full of warranty replacements.

any chance you can ship me some a7 arms instead of the a6s for now? until the x line is available?

[Inlinepro77 0]

Thinking of making with switch to Sprungs with some of the upcoming CA7's, any update when the new models will be available?

[illkins9 0]

im brand new hear and pretty much joined so i could ask some questions about these frames. i read some of this thread but i wasnt gonna read the entire 155pg so forgive me please if my question has been answered. whats the deal with these frames? are they realy as good as alot of you guys say they are. i play ice and roller so according to the maker these should be the best frames i will ever use. i just bought a pair of easton eq5 that i want to turn into inline skates and im very interested in trying these frames. are they available at all right now or no. if someone could just sum up whats the deal with these it would be very much appreciated. thanks alot guys!!!

[aldoraines 0]

im brand new hear and pretty much joined so i could ask some questions about these frames. i read some of this thread but i wasnt gonna read the entire 155pg so forgive me please if my question has been answered. whats the deal with these frames? are they realy as good as alot of you guys say they are. i play ice and roller so according to the maker these should be the best frames i will ever use. i just bought a pair of easton eq5 that i want to turn into inline skates and im very interested in trying these frames. are they available at all right now or no. if someone could just sum up whats the deal with these it would be very much appreciated. thanks alot guys!!!

It is worth reading and at the least searching the thread....

[iceburg19 1]

These frames are the best for ice players playing inline,..Have you been on their web. Sprunginline.com ?

[The Webster 0]

Fantastic frames, Just wish durability was a bit better. Starting to get really ticked off with my rocker arms breaking and nothing happening with the A6X's

[Sprungster 5]

First of all, let me apologize to those of you who have been left in the dark wondering about their pre-order. As I said, your deposit now covers the whole retail price except for the normal shipping tag. It is moving ahead very slowly on it's own and the current order will happen and we will have plenty of new stock in all sizes, starting with the A6X.

This order is, unfortunately, tied in with manufacturing and distribution talks that started way back in the Spring when there was plenty of time to make July delivery. The talks went nowhere and the order is stranded until I find a new manufacturing and distribution partner who wants the opportunity and can do the job.

The opportunity was available to them and it is now available to anybody in the business.

I have the best chassis on the market and it's about to get better. There aren't many products that are so pre-proven and pre-sold, that also require such an insignificant amount of money to break into big sales and bucks from the inline and ice markets. Some pro out there can certainly make a lot more for me than I've done, selling them online from my house, with no advertising or promotion. I don't want to clerk stuff, but I do want to develop the inline patents I have and the many more I'm sitting on. Somebody, already in the business, doing what they do naturally, has all the parts except for the product(s).

I've learned to make very nice offers, so somebody should move on it and not sit on it.

Thanks, and I'm still here,

Keith

PS With that said, I'll include a letter I got while writing the above.

Hi Keith!

Glad to hear that your business is still alive and kicking!!! My son really loves your product!! He used to go through a set of Mission skates about every 4 – 8 months; he’s a very aggressive skater and would either break the alloy chassis or rip the sole of the boot off entirely. We put the A8’s on his Graf ice boots and he’s been using them for 2 ˝ years now with no issues. Needless to say, I love the chassis too because it’s been a LOT easier on my wallet!!! J

He’s skating for Virginia Tech now and they built an outdoor inline rink on campus and there’s a few “pot holes” in the concrete and he broke one of the pivot pins. I think that all he needs is the pivot pins, but I’m waiting to hear back from him before I order so that I get everything he needs. I’ll be in touch soon.

Regards,

Michael

[iceburg19 1]

So a time line for the A6X arms is not possible at this time?

[kovalchuk71 212]

nvm

[missionsparta 0]

Not to be a downer, but it is starting to look more and more like we may never see these pre-orders.

[missionsparta 0]

Been a while now.... Anyone hear anything?

[iceburg19 1]

no nothing lately, Lets hope we hear some good news soon. MERRY CHRISTMAS everybody.

[Sprungster 5]

Happy New Year, and here's the news. One of the majors is considering Sprung OEMs and is starting some testing of their own. Not their first time. Now you can all squirm on the hook along with me while I wait to find out if it's actually good news.

[Sprungster 5]

Very early on, the inline hockey companies chose the low tech rigid metal frame for their standard. Some put out their own unsuccessful "improvements", and called it quits. Do you think there are any ice hockey companies or players who want to return to the old rigid metal ice holder that was long gone before inline started? Is inline older school than ice? Or old and conservative before its time?

[Vet88 674]

Keith - I wish you all the best with your endeavours. I believe the product is the next evolution in inline and like all good things, it takes time. If I had the money and the business I'd have jumped all over the opportunity when you raised it a few months back but sadly plastic manufacturing and or skate manufacturing isn't my forte.

Again, I wish you all the best and hope this time an OEM can see some sense.

[Sprungster 5]

I was just wondering if anybody else has a warning bar under their pic? I don't think I've been warned about anything yet, and it is sort of punky, but has it has kept me from being a bad person by being there? Of course.

[Kanya 3]

Trying to make head or tail of the last few pages - are your frames available for order at present? Few of my team mates are looking to get these frames

[Grinder 2]

I'm hoping one of the manufacturers picks up the Sprung line of frames soon. I can't help but think back to the rise of mountain bikes, when it was all rigid frames. Rock Shox came along with a suspension fork, and fought against the mainstream manufacturers refusals: It was too expensive for production bikes, suspension wasn't really necessary, it's only a 'niche' market of people who would want a suspension fork, it doesn't really improve performance... on, and on, and on. It's a rare bike that doesn't have suspension, now, and I think that inline is at the same point in it's evolution. Manufacturers are complacent, but the performance of these frames absolutely outstrips anything else out there.

Keep it up, Keith.

[Sprungster 5]

I'm hoping one of the manufacturers picks up the Sprung line of frames soon. I can't help but think back to the rise of mountain bikes, when it was all rigid frames. Rock Shox came along with a suspension fork, and fought against the mainstream manufacturers refusals: It was too expensive for production bikes, suspension wasn't really necessary, it's only a 'niche' market of people who would want a suspension fork, it doesn't really improve performance... on, and on, and on. It's a rare bike that doesn't have suspension, now, and I think that inline is at the same point in it's evolution. Manufacturers are complacent, but the performance of these frames absolutely outstrips anything else out there.

Keep it up, Keith.

Thank you, for your kind words and encourgement.

All of the revolutionary Sprung frames, so far, have been either one-off prototypes or extended custom prototype production runs. This includes the one pair of all aluminum hi-lo hockey prototypes I made with Mission (campaigned by Joe Cook, CJ and Jamie Yoder, and many OG Mudcats), the two different homemade aggro frames I made to get into that category (where I co-designed the UFS mounting system, from my mount system, designed to hold my second protoypes), the UFS Sprung Fiziks that Skatepile made in SoCal with short run aluminum arms (nine of the ten finalists in the last XGames, including the Continuous World Champ Yasatoko Bros.), and the whole Voodootech line (fantastic, with us and a lot of pro closet-fans).

All of my concept drawings are on this thread so anyone can look at them; and they all show improvements that can be made to the current prototype model we are all skating on right now. All of these revolutionary frames and concept drawings are backed up by many old and new patents RE suspension systems that never existed prior to my patents. I don't have money to make some of the improvements to the current model, such as beefed up A6 arms and mag alloy arms, because I have paid for new patents, and I have more I'm expecting any moment. More bucks-instantly-needed.

Everything we skate on and see, we can call the tip of the iceberg. The frame nobody but me and my family (my daughter and son grew up assembling the frames we skate on) know about is the WHOLE ICEBERG. It's the one I've been saving for my OEM partner when they show up. The boot company that puts out even a limited edition with the current Sprungs (with mag alloy arms), will suddenly be the most revolutionary and visionary in the business. The boot company that puts out a boot attached to the WHOLE ICEBERG will suddenly be the most revolutionary and visionary in almost any business.

And I still have a wheel.

[Sprungster 5]

The player shooting, Christian Skoryna, who is obviously on first edition Sprungs, and CJ Yoder, looking on, were both early Sprung testers and both of them liked them. Christian looks like a lightweight on what was, and is still, thought by some to be a too soft setup.

[Sprungster 5]

Itan had been testing and liking Sprungs for four or five years.