Inline Goal Skates

[DamnLocust 0]

Although I'm not a goalie, a few of my friends who are goalies have been looking for inline goal skates for some time now. I know that you can cut the Ice blade off of a regular ice hockey goal skate an install a flat inline chassis to the skate, but I'm talking about a skate engineered specifically for inline goalies, a la the bauer 1000 skate which seems hard to find in some sizes. Do they still make the Bauer 1000 inlines, or do some online retailers (coughhockeygiantcough) simply have a lot of stock? Is the issue that the market is not strong enough for inline goal skates?

I think if someone like mission or tour invested a bit in the idea, it could really take off. Mission's motion pads were a hit, and Tour is one of the few other companies that make pads specifically for inline hockey. Both of these companies have a strong rep in the inline world, and could really make a splash by releasing some trick goal skate.

[vision 0]

Bauer is releasing a new version of their inline skate and I've seen some pics of it but it retains the same chassis and that makes it a non-starter for me. My preference is to take a good ice boot/cowl and mount my chassis of choice to it. I use a SureGrip 405-5 chassis because I like the selection of 59mm wheels that are available.

Mission has looked into a goalie skate, from the rumours that abound, but, so far, nothing concrete has come of it.

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[cbettner66 0]

id just be happy if some company out there made 47mm wheels that are harder than 76a - although i wouldn't complain if mission made a goalie skate - i think it would be pretty sweet

[DamnLocust 0]

Have you Tried aggressive wheels? They come in that size, and they come in hardesses around 100. that probably sounds really hard, but it will allow you to slide across the goal mouth easily.

Here are a couple I found on Inlinesports.com:

Hyper Kaos

Kryptonics Fool

If they're too hard, you could try using the aggressive wheels at the front and back of your chassis, with an actual goal wheel (rinkrat crossbar/ hyper pro goalie/Labeda Patriot) This will allow for the grip of the soft wheels to be mixed in with the durability of the hard wheels. I had a setup like this using Labeda Dynasties and old Kuzak Kontacks for outdoor roller and it worked well. Even if mixing it up doesn't work, these aggressive wheels are cheap enough that you could experiment with them without taking a big hit in the pocket.

[The Webster 0]

just surfing the net as you and came across these bad boys

http://store.thepenaltybox.com/nibavaxgsero.html

hope this helps

[SickLife 2]

i don't think they make them anymore, not that i could find when searching just now. but for $300 i got those quickchange goalie skates. its inline with sliders but you can remove the chassis to put on an ice blade. hense the 'quickchange'

[SickLife 2]

just surfing the net as you and came across these bad boys

http://store.thepenaltybox.com/nibavaxgsero.html

hope this helps

i saw those last weekend while i was sitting around a shop waiting for my skates to be baked. they were...intersting. the shell isn't flush with the skate itself, which i didn't like. there's a gap between. it was odd.

[DDude26 0]

but you can remove the chassis to put on an ice blade.

quickchange doesn't do that at all it's just a regular goalie skate but their normal player's skates can change wheels to personal liking (ie indoor wheels and outdoor wheels) they made the goalie skates so they could use their patented "sliders" which i foun out that they break easy my frame got bent due to that

[vision 0]

The quickchange comes from the ease of swapping wheels. I have a set of their goalie cowlings with the sliders but found them to be evil on sportcourt. By that I mean that I found my feet sliding uncontrollably when the sliders touched down and I ceased their use because I felt that I was going to get hurt. Now, outdoors on surfaced concrete, I like them but an inability to get replacement sliders hampers my use of them.

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[DDude26 0]

u can order some new sliders on the quickchange website and ure right about the sliding around on sportcourt but i got used to it and perfected it but once they started breaking i switched over to custom skates

[cook22 0]

they sell them at goaliemonkey.com

[vision 0]

Last time I checked, which was a while ago, the quickchange site no longer existed. I checked at goaliemonkey and hockeygiant and neither had the sliders.

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[cook22 0]

oo the sliders they have the whole skate at goaliemonkey my bad