Going back and forth from ice to roller

[Hoffer 0]

My question is for those of you who play both ice and roller on a regular basis. I have been playing roller for years and finally started playing ice. My problem is when playing roller hockey sometimes I feel like my skates are glued to the floor or I am stuck in mud for the first few minutes when the last time I played hockey before that was ice hockey. Can any guys help me on what I can due to stop this from occurring when I play roller for the first few minutes?

[TBLfan 25]

Just adjust yourself mentally for it. Know that skating roller and ice is different and be ready. It takes me a couple mins but I'm good before we actually start to play.

[All Torhs Team 0]

Theres this thing called warm ups around here...

[KYHockey3 0]

i used to have that problem. one time i went from ice to roller and i accidentally tried to do a ice hockey stop during roller. lol it hurt.

[hockeydoc 0]

After being on ice I will eat it on inline a few times during warmup also. That's why I skate hard during warm up, implementing stops both ways, w/ a lot of forwards and backwards crossovers.

The heavyness I believe is from not only the heavier skate but the type of stride you use. After playing ice a lot more, my stride adjusted in both to be very similar and I no longer feel like I'm in mud. Also I use a short quicker stride on take off in roller more than I used to, to compensate. ;)

I still wipe it on roller cutting hard w/ both feet together like I can in ice, but not too much. Over all, I truly believe that my ice time and inline time now complement each other. I used to heavily prefer inline, but now enjoy both equally (or close anyways). :P

FYI I was forced into Ice as inline time was becomeing unavailable. Either ice, or only 1 skate per week :o ...

[DamnLocust 0]

I agree with hockeydoc that as you play both over a longer period of time, it will become much easier to transition. I found that ice improved my overall game immensely, especially when it came to anticipation and reading plays, since everything happens more quickly on ice.

[hockeytim18 0]

Just like other things you try to fix really focus on what you're doing for a game or two. It will come to naturally then.

[Jim A 4]

I have trouble if I play a lot of one without the other...but otherwise...not much trouble..

a couple things that I do now to help offset the current 2 ice games on Sun and then a roller game on Mon

stickhandle..I make sure I handle the roller puck before we hit the floor for warmups..nothing fancy just 25 back and forth in front..on the side and behind..

skating.. after a couple easy laps I do some figure 8's..get used to the turning/cutting/accelerating (or lack thereof on the floor...and just work on trying to get my feet to turn over..that's the biggest issue I have on roller is that my leg turnover is slow compared to ice (and well no hands)

[sabre09923 0]

For some reason, there is no transition for me. It feels pretty natural for me to go from ice to roller and back again; but I don't play roller competitively, I just fool around in my street and stuff like that. Well, I play with a ball too so I can't comment on the differences with roller/ice pucks.

Once I tried to do a hockey stop on pavement. The end result wasn't pretty at all...

[hockeydoc 0]

It is the HOCKEY STOPS, and transitions that are the major issues IMO going from roller to ice.

Not doing hockey stops on pavement negates the whole issue...