Played my first time at roller!

[tomz 0]

Wow it is soo different to ice, especially the stopping.

Any MSH'ers have any tips on stopping on inlines?

[english15x 3]

the boards or the loop turn :D

I had an inline game last night in some B league and skating ice for a year and coming back its tough.

your supposed to swoop one leg to stop and have the other leg out to make a T

[xsvboy 0]

My first time i had a head of spead and i whent threw 2 players, scored and ten tride to do a sharp turn and i flew feat first into the boards. I will slow it down a bit.

[gxc999 7]

I can kinda sorta do a sudden proper hockey stop inline, but literally only for self preservation...

[wetwilly17 6]

the boards or the loop turn :D

I had an inline game last night in some B league and skating ice for a year and coming back its tough.

your supposed to swoop one leg to stop and have the other leg out to make a T

that type of stop is easier to learn, but you can stop with both skates if you practice

[coryroth24 15]

I'm sorry... :lol:

[Penguinsfanatic 0]

I power stop all the time when playing inline. Its hard getting used to and you can sometimes have your skates completely slide out from under you.

[Aussie Joe 0]

Best description I have been able to come up with...

Ice: Your feet turn and dig in with your toes. This is done in a straight line.

Inline: You turn your feet and dig in with your heels. This is done in a matter where you swing more with your hips in a question mark like turn. In Ice it would be called a cut out.

[lyle.m23 0]

sorry for the odd question but when falling in inline hockey do you slide like you would on ice

(no were to play or whatch inline hockey near me so never have :P)

[fatwabbit 93]

you can do a power slide where one leg is stuck outwards, and the other forms a t-shape... difficutl to explain.

you can do a hockey stop on inline.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc4nz9LyZuM

cant find the one i wanted to show though.

[strosedefence34 175]

sorry for the odd question but when falling in inline hockey do you slide like you would on ice

(no were to play or whatch inline hockey near me so never have :P)

no. You pretty much just fall and it sucks. You maybe able to slide just a few inches, but thats it.

[moose77 0]

sorry for the odd question but when falling in inline hockey do you slide like you would on ice

(no were to play or whatch inline hockey near me so never have :P)

no. You pretty much just fall and it sucks. You maybe able to slide just a few inches, but thats it.

Yep, you just sort of go "thud".

[Tyler B 0]

yeah pretty much instead of on your toes like ice. shift more weight to your heals. almost like a sharp turn in ice. You will notice going back to ice after a season of inline that you will probably have to force yourself to stop on your toes again. But you will be able to cut hard and turn on a dime. Inline helped my turns on ice better than actually practicing them. Not saying practice iisnt benefitial or anything lol.

[PIASMurph 0]

I just recently learned to stop on inline and sometimes I'll have a little too much angle to my skates and they'll just WHOOOP right out from under me. Need to find that happy medium.

[fatwabbit 93]

powerslide is a pretty stable stopping position, but if you are going to switch between ice and inline, it may screw up your ice stops.

The sprungs are pretty good at letting you do a inline hockey stop. Now, I've never played ice hockey before, so dont quote me on that.

Am intending to get into the ice league here though... got the skates, just need to have the time to go down and try it out.

Here's some videos I finally found on youtube. dont think you can do this on ice. The first one was the one i was looking for originally

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEC3miGyElM

[Aussie Joe 0]

I heard all the WA ice rinks closed? Or was it just one.

In general, the more you play ice and inline together, the more used to the transition you become. You will eventually be like some of the guys here who just have a switch in their heads and go from ice to inline without any hassles because they have played so much over each other.

[fatwabbit 93]

Still have the one in Cockburn. Have yet to go there.

Heard these a mega one getting built now north of the City. not sure when, but soon..

[raygunpk 0]

Wow that first vid is awesome.

[TheBert 0]

I'm still stopping by doing a really tight question-mark-looking turn. Any pointers on getting my outside skate to slide?

[pody37 3]

sorry to jack the thread but where did you play tomz??

[kilner 0]

I'm still stopping by doing a really tight question-mark-looking turn. Any pointers on getting my outside skate to slide?

Try and keep it at a tight angle, for example you'll more likely get ur skate to slide more if you keep it at a 20-30 degree angle then you would if you had it at a 60-70 degree angle.

[JR97 2]

Some surfaces are easier than others. I can power slide stop on a dime (to my left) on sport court. There were quite a few guys that could hockey stop on a dime both directions.

I suck at stopping on ice. Oustide right foot only. And I have the habit of looping around on plays where I should just stop.

[tomz 0]

sorry to jack the thread but where did you play tomz??

virtual ice in Rotherham

[Bender 0]

I can only really power slide on inline, most of the time when I have tried a "proper" hockey stop, my wheels just get massive amounts of grip and I go head over heels (don't say I'm not leaning over enough, any more and I would be parralel to the ground).

I think what I mean by that, sometimes you will have enough grip to stop by just using 4 wheels insted of all 8 :)

Just incase you odnt know what a power slide is:

From full speed, on sports court (with some dust as well ;)) power sliding will get me to stop in about 2 meters. On a laminated concrete surface from full speed, under half a meter, but the grip gets to the point that my wheels are quite physically gripping onto the surface the bouncing off it, but hey, I'm only a little fellah :)

[kilner 0]

sorry to jack the thread but where did you play tomz??

virtual ice in Rotherham

Who do you play for?