For those of you who play ice and roller

[*Shutout*]

I played roller hockey for about 3 month last summer. I really enjoyed, i was on the competitive team and we did pretty well.

Anyway, i'm debating if i should play again this year. I worry that it will develop bad habits, i mean when you pushed out to the top of your crease in ice hockey you stop with one foot, then get set. But in roller hockey, you have to do a snow plow kind of thing. You also cant shuffle.

Do you guys think i should?

thanks

jeff

[siggydawg]

itll definitely help with your conditioning and your leg strength. i cant tell how the continuous crossing over from ice to roller and back is. i only played ice all my life then i switched to only roller for college. but i can tell you it definitely makes your legs stronger and makes u sweat more

[elite]

I can say with confidence that playing inline will help your ice game, but playing ice will not help your inline game. Odd sounding, right?

Inline will help with conditioning and leg strength. You will learn angles and how to cope with side-to-side situations without the advantage of ice. It will definitely help you with intuition, particularly side-to-side plays.

Playing ice, however, has never helped my ice game. Perhaps a bit with skating, but that's it.

Bottomline: you should keep playing inline in the offseason.

[Webster]

i would reccomend only play roller say once in a while
it will keep ur ice game up and you can still have fun playing roller
Thats what i do

[Matt The Hammer]

If your roller team is full of drug addicts & burnouts (like mine) you may pick up a few bad habits.

"Just say no"

[oogs]

"My philosophy is, instead of 'Just Say No' how bout 'Just Say Yes', just once then decide"

if you have fun playing roller.. play it. if you dont have fun, don't. end of story.

[PuckRacer31]

I play both ice and inline year 'round. Ice on Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday. Inline on Monday.
I agree with elite, in that inline will help somewhat with your games on ice. Angles and reactions (on side to side plays and wraparounds) are more critical in inline games, as well as the conditioning benefits that have been mentioned.

However, you must be aware that breakaways can be tricky. On ice the player often has the advantage and can make more plays and change direction quicker. Inline goalies often have the advantage because only a very few players can change direction that quickly, and most of them can't or fall trying.

The funny thing is that in the 2 or 3 years I have been playing both, I have picked up several things from my inline games that really help with my ice games. Not much from ice really helps my inline play, but hasn't hurt it either.
The only real dissadvantage for me is having to switch my leg pads, skates, and such between my ice and inline games. As well as I play with a different stick because I am a little higher off the floor in my inline skates.
I've never had any real difficulties with my movements like you mentioned because of switching back and forth, if I have I guess they clear up during warm-up