Sport Court question

[scweb13]

At the rink that I play at, after a couple of hours of play, the creases start to get really slick. I'm not sure what the problem is. I'm sure that sweat has something to do with it, but when I play, I keep a towel in the net to mop up the crease. One crease is always worse than the other one, then soon afterwards they are both slick. It really sucks when you can hardly stand up on your skates without them sliding out and moving around is impossible.

Does anyone else have this problem? If so, what do you do to fix it?

Thanks,
Scott

[Timberwoof]

I played at the Bladium years ago in San Francisco and I had that problem.

I found a solution, but you're not going to like it. I switched to playing on ice.

The worst thing for me playing rler hockey was that they didn't allow goalies to have a water bottle at the net.

Even worse than that, roller hockey hurts my knees.

[scweb13]

I'm working on switching over. The only problem is finding a time when there's not too many goalies available. Some places have around here have waiting lists just for drop-in.

[G-Man]

Water/sweat can make SportCourt a little slick but usually not to the point where you can hardly stand. It's possible one of the other goalies is spraying their pads with something like Armour All to make them slide. Find him and dispose of him where no one will find the body. Also make sure you are using the correct wheels. You don't want very hard wheels on SportCourt.

[Chilis93]

I'm using wheels with 78A durometer, they work fine on most surfaces.

[stollie_the_goalie]

That's weird. My rink lets us have water bottles on the nets.

[WildMan1]

hey, well yeah moving to ice is great if ya can but roller isnt to bad once u get the hang of it, i mean as in sliding and actually taking it yeah a lot of people are using those super soft wheels but im on a sport court as well and my wheels are 82a and sliding is somthing im starting to like, im more of controling the slide so u can shuffle its prettty hard and almost any other goalie thinks im crazy but i can do it, even are backup doesnt not understand how i slide i tell him its all in the wheels. anyways i keep two water bottles and lay them inside a towel up against the back cross bar, but i never have any problem with them leaking enough water to make the hole crease soaking wet, i never really have that problem...... so just get used to the slide or get out is all i can say, sorry if i didnt help much- Soupie#1

[KDB]

Yeah, what G-man says. Water/sweat won't do that to a Sport Court surface (assuming you wipe it up). Some goober ice goalie is probably trying to get his pads to slide more like ice...

And I think I've always been allowed to have water at my net...

[scweb13]

I've never been told that I can't have water on the net. I have one of the bottle that have the special valve nozzle. You just have to sqeeze it for the water to come out. It doesn't drip at all.

Ever time I play, I'm always fanatic about wiping up the sweat when-ever I get a chance. I move around alot following the play and if I lose my footing, I get burned. It's also tuff to make a t-glide to the other side of the crease when your pushing foot slides out.

[stollie_the_goalie]

I have one of those ones with a built-in straw so I don't have to squeeze at all. I never could squeeze one of those valve nozzle ones hard enough to get much water out with my blocker on.

[MrMikeEMike]

Goalies in our league are allowed water bottles, but if the bottle breaks on the net for any reason, and cleanup can't be handled during a stoppage of play, then your team is assesed a 2 min Delay of Game penalty. Personally, I've only had a bottle break during warm-ups while my idiot forwards are trying to roof the puck without me in net. Other than that, never had a problem.

Mike

[WERNER 1]

Dito on the "dude using armour all"!!! Even after they're gone, it takes a good while for the "effects to leave.

I've noticed where I play that if the floor is dirty I'll loose a bit of traction.......but gain a little bit of slide-ability with my pads. I guess there is a little bit of give and take there.

I started out using a 78 dur. wheel, but found my skates slipping out while I was in a wide stance, or pushing off hard. I now 74 dur. wheels and that has eliminated my slippage.

I cant imagine playing on sport court and using somthing in the 80's.....there would be no explosive movment what so ever. Very curious indeed.

[Chilis93]

There is something funny in the whole wheel-story. Personaly I like harder wheels for roller and have a dull ice-skate. While some other guys like soft wheels and sharp skate. It's just a personal thing and a little getting used to.

[WERNER 1]

Yep! If it aint' broke, don't fix it!

[gizmo]

Hey folks, instead of starting a new thread, and the issue has already been brought up, I would like to see if anyone has an answer for this one. under usa inline rules, can goalies be stopped from having water at the nets? we've been playing tournements and now with our middle school league the facilities have been barring our (actually all) goalies from bring water out to the nets. One arena has hardwood floors, so I understand their concern. I can't find anything in the rules stating that the goalie has to have water available or have the ability to have an official time out to come to the bench for a drink or anything like that. The only response that I've been able to get has been "yes we feel the goalies need to have water available to them" my response is...show me in writing were it says so, because that is what the facility whats before they will allow it. I like the idea of making sure the bottle doesn't leak and that it it delays the game due to clean up its a 2 minite penelty. but I need to find it in writing some where any ideas?