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11-13-2003, 05:35 PM
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Has anyone here ever skated on plastic?
...and I don't mean using your credit card to pay for ice time, and I don't mean the plastic by the edge of the ice...
When I was a little kid, a friend of the family took me to see an ice skating show that was put on in the gymnasium of the local high school. They didn't make ice--instead they skated on interloking white plastic squares. Now that I skate, I realize that this must be very odd. Is it terrible on the blades? You don't get a resurface, do you? Is it slower than on ice? 
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11-13-2003, 05:41 PM
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I've skated on it before. It was years ago. I remember thinking it was terrible, and very hard to get an edge. At that time I was living in Virginia Beach and it was their idea of an "ice" rink.
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#5
11-13-2003, 07:24 PM
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Yuck just thinking about it makes me cringe! I hate watching people ruin their blades! I don't go anywhere without my skate guards, not even on the rubber mats.
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#6
11-13-2003, 07:56 PM
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No, but my coach has. As I recall, she said you need your blades sharpened very often doing this. I think she said after every time you skate on it! She also said there is some oily surface stuff on there, so if you fall, it's YUK.
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#7
11-14-2003, 08:42 AM
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Apparently it feels very "muddy" to stroke on, dramatically shortens the life of your blades, is expensive, and can't be resurfaced. Probably best to avoid it.
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11-14-2003, 09:56 AM
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Yes and it wrecks your blades. They need sharpening a LOT more often than if you skate on ice.
I found it was like trying to skate through 'rubber' .... that's the feeling I got anyway .... I could 'do' everything on it but it felt SOOO slow. I wouldn't skate on it by choice.
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#9
11-14-2003, 10:16 AM
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I did a few years ago but I didn't dare use my own skates so used the hire ones, but they had absolutely no edges at all so I could barely stand up on the stuff. I'm trying to get out of skating on this stuff again as the kids' school is hiring a plastic rink for Christmas. I wouldn't risk my own skates on it as I don't want to ruin my blades, so I'd rather not skate on it at all, especially since everyone will be expecting me to do some "tricks" on it!
Nicki
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11-14-2003, 01:19 PM
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A friend of mine was in a show in the south of France this summer on plastic ice, and she said that at first it was awful, but you got used to it.
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#11
11-14-2003, 02:25 PM
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I have not skated on plastic "ice" before, but someone said it feels muddy and it is very difficult to stroke. I have skated on real ice that is so soft and mushy in a rink that it was difficult to skate and it felt like I was pushing through quicksand. When I first stepped on it, my blades felt stuck.
Kay
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#12
11-14-2003, 02:41 PM
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Well skating on plastic must ruin the blades but sometimes when i go to the public skate the ice is so slippy u couldnt really skate on it.
Has anyone ever noticed at there arena that the ice when it has been cleaned is very wet in some parts?
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#13
11-14-2003, 04:34 PM
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I skated on plastic ice once for a short skating show. It felt very strange, like I could not control my edges and even where I was going sometimes. It was extremely hard to spin, and I didn't even *think* about jumping!
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#14
11-14-2003, 06:08 PM
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In the mid-1970s, Chicago's Century Mall had a mini Christmas skating show on the ground floor by the great glass elevator. That didn't last long, and maybe it was because the postage-stamp square of "ice" was plastic.
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#15
11-14-2003, 07:23 PM
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http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/ice-rink4.htm also mentions that ice made with impure water can have a "sticky" feel to it.
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#16
11-15-2003, 01:06 AM
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No, I haven't skated on plastic but I have skated on paint and came to a dead halt and flew through the air luckily landing on two feet.
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#17
11-15-2003, 08:13 AM
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Oh god! Yes I did this. Asbury Park Convention Hall c. 1979 some sort of sports expo. There was six of us or so and we did a short synchro routine to "Bad Girls" by Donna Summer. I shudder just thinking about this one. The plastic ice was incredibly sticky and hard. And yes, it was sprayed with oil.
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#18
11-15-2003, 09:29 AM
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Incidentally, "Plastic Ice" would be a good name for a rock band....
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#19
11-15-2003, 11:00 AM
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I have never seen or heard of before until now ut just the thought of it makes me cringe. Ick! I still probably am not imagining it like it really is.
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11-15-2003, 12:54 PM
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Where was this in Virginia Beach?? I live here!!! There is a very tiny rink in Virginia Beach- along with a dual NHL surface rink in nearby Chesapeake!
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#22
11-15-2003, 01:01 PM
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I have two coaches, both of whom skated in "plastic shows" in the 1980s and 90s, and they say that while it is possible to jump and spin, it is incredibly difficult.
The touring version of the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular has a "plastic ice" segment that features adagio skaters (I think that's pairs skating that focuses on lifts, carries, and overhead spins, etc rather than throws and jumps). The nice thing about having coaches who have experience doing "plastic tours" is that they know a LOT about sharpening and rebuilding blades!!!
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#23
11-15-2003, 01:27 PM
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A very experienced skater (doing triple jumps) did some skating shows on plastic ice - told me you can't do toe jumps or doubles; it's really only single axels, salchows, loops. I doubt if you can actually learn how to figure skate on plastic, either. It's really for tots to fall around on, and even they would get bored quickly, it's so slow!
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#24
11-16-2003, 08:33 AM
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I know that my friend, the same one as is in Panto in Canterbury, was welcomed with open arms and instantly given a lead role because she could do handstands and so on, even with her boots on. But she seems to have had enormous fun in this show, even if it was on plastic ice.
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11-17-2003, 03:41 PM
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