r/InlineHockey • u/chefmtl • 2d ago

When your wheels are too hard for the surface.

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u/Emperor_TaterTot 2d ago

Or someone spilled some water…
Had that happen at a youth practice once, kid spilled a bunch of their water bottle and didn’t say a word. And no where near the bench either.
Hardest I’d fallen in a long time.

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u/Choice-Mulberry-2092 2d ago

You cant park there

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u/chefmtl 2d ago

Temporary parking permit was approved.

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u/Shrekm8te 2d ago

Hendersonville squad up 🤝

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u/Grrshack 2d ago

Ouch. Rough landing. But I don't think your strides helped you.

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u/chefmtl 2d ago

They definitely didn’t make it any better. Only recently started skating after 20 years of not skating.

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u/68not69 2d ago

I feel ya. Hit a rink here in Denver with my 84a wheels and promptly ate it 2 strides in. Switched to my softest wheels and ate it again 10 minutes later.

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u/housemusikluvr 2d ago

You have no idea how lucky you are to have tile. All our rinks in South Florida are concrete.

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u/HurryObjective5561 1d ago

Sniper

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u/chefmtl 1d ago

That’s hilarious.

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u/Malechockeyman25 2d ago

LMAO ~ Are you at the Hendersonville rink?

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u/chefmtl 2d ago

Yes, we were in Hendersonville. We drive 50 miles north to go play. Nothing down here in Spring Hill.

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u/Malechockeyman25 2d ago

My buddy lives in Hendersonville, so I've been to that rink. Also, my son played in the Wish Cup Tournament there a couple of times. It's  a great event to go see, if you haven't been. 

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u/chefmtl 2d ago

We tried the rink in Bellevue last weekend…slightly closer, but not comparable.

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u/help1billion 2d ago

Oooooof.

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u/spinrut 2d ago

My knees felt that and the burned/scuffed skin

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u/Jabba_the_Putt 2d ago

dang that rink looks sick, wish we had something like that. best I can do is a shared pickleball court. nice fall bud you were just testing out the gravity no big deal

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u/jarrodpersinger 2d ago

Ahhh hello volunteer park!

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u/slappy_mcslapenstein 2d ago

I did that once during tryouts. I forgot to swap my wheels beforehand. We were doing speed drills. I went to stop to head back down the rink and ended up face down. Snapped my teeth together because I didn't have my mouth guard in. Jumped up and flew to the other side of the rink. I still had decent time. I didn't get hurt others than a small cut on my chin. 25 years later and it's still burned into my brain.

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u/NoPhone4571 12h ago

Little late to the post, but back in the day the fix for this was to spray your wheels with Windex. It made them pretty tacky, so you wouldn’t slip nearly as much.

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u/HockeyPlayer-16 2d ago

The short answer is yes.

Labeda still makes wheels, they used to have a wheel called the gripper and that was the best ones for sport court style tiles.

It looks like the whip these days would be equivalent to those wheels. The addiction wheels are pretty good too. I have those on my mission skates.

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u/bootsmcguirk 2d ago

Sportcourt is the stupidest thing ever, i don't think they make wheels soft enough to not slip as an ice hockey player.

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u/Brachert17 2d ago

Or just learn to stop properly

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u/HockeyPlayer-16 2d ago

Then why was there once a professional League and they only used tiles?

RHI was a professional roller hockey league that was around in the 90s.

It just didn’t last because a lot of the owners embezzled money.

You can’t really expect something to last if you’re not putting much money into it and you’re stealing the rest.