Downhill Ice Skating

iSam · 14 Feb 2008 at 14:55

trickyj said:
That I think you'll find is the sport of kings!!! (and without trying to be too pedantic- it's actually in Gloucestershire)

Haha, I want to have a go, but I would kill myself.

Ripper · 14 Feb 2008 at 15:02

I'd be up for it

Mat · 14 Feb 2008 at 15:07

Why not just get skaters to skate down the luge track?

pitchfork · 14 Feb 2008 at 15:22

I can imagine people quite easily losing balance, falling over, and essentially dying.
Skiing you'll land in soft snow, stop and you have a decent surface area to balance, this, it'd be near imposibble to balance and you'll land on rock hard ice and keep sliding downhill.

Therefore, it's a super extreme sport. We can add razorblades and other sharp things to the surface to make it more dangerous

Ceryndrion · 14 Feb 2008 at 15:54

hmmm... I seem to remember that theres an ice rink in doncaster that is split level, with two ice ramps.. one for down and one for up, and going down.. is nerve racking at best...

LizardKing · 14 Feb 2008 at 16:09

Mat said:
Why not just get skaters to skate down the luge track?

or a bob-sleigh track.

stevenazari1 · 14 Feb 2008 at 16:26

even the winner of that video hurt himself and that was just trying to stop with ice hockey gear on. not safe to be taken seriously.

MTA99 · 14 Feb 2008 at 16:33

IcE-ColD said:
Something a bit like this?

http://spikedhumor.com/articles/141395/Red-Bull-Crashed-Ice-Quebec-2008.html

Full event on Joost!

stevenazari1 · 14 Feb 2008 at 16:35

MTA99 said:
Full event on Joost!

competitor!

1-0

TheCrow · 14 Feb 2008 at 16:39

Why not just use the toboggan(sp?) runs that are already in place? They use blades aswell, they have just stuck them to a sledge.

Dj_Jestar · 14 Feb 2008 at 16:40

stevenazari1 said:
stopping wouldnt be a problem, landing on 2 thin pieces of metal would.

1. if you have ever ice skated before you would know how hard it is to balance on a moving skate. now think of it travelling at around 50mph+ then think of lift off and gravity adding to that speed in downward force.

2. the skate would likely break

3. your angle would probably break from the skate forcing it hard left/right

4. the impact to the floor would be so intense you would likely cut into the floor

5. there wouldnt be enough space to stop. (ski'ers have snow at the bottom to create a friction on the surface) a skater requires ice only therefore has no friction other than sharp turns to escape the gforce behind the skater.

I could go on but I think thats enough reason to call this idea a day.

Ignoring that there is no jumping involved..

1. It's a piece of urine. Ice Hockey training involves jumping over obstacles (and each other for a laugh/dare devil.)

2. Better materials would be used than on your average crap blue-plastic-with-cheapest-steel-blade skate.

3. See 1. Balance is completely easy, and better ankle support.

4. This is the only point that hold water (pun!)

5. Create a large flat area to stop.. duh.

Tefal · 14 Feb 2008 at 16:42

Dj_Jestar said:
5. Create a large flat area to stop.. duh.

or a slight incline like they do now. and then just fall over to stop as current racers do.

Dj_Jestar · 14 Feb 2008 at 16:46

Tefal said:
or a slight incline like they do now. and then just fall over to stop as current racers do.

pfft. Speed bump.

stevenazari1 · 14 Feb 2008 at 16:54

Dj_Jestar said:
Ignoring that there is no jumping involved..

1. It's a piece of urine. Ice Hockey training involves jumping over obstacles (and each other for a laugh/dare devil.)

2. Better materials would be used than on your average crap blue-plastic-with-cheapest-steel-blade skate.

3. See 1. Balance is completely easy, and better ankle support.

4. This is the only point that hold water (pun!)

5. Create a large flat area to stop.. duh.

if you read the posts further down instead of jumping the gun you would have realised that I thought he was refferring to skating with a giant ramp at the bottom as to current skiers on a slope. not down hill racing.

Tefal · 14 Feb 2008 at 16:57

Dj_Jestar said:
pfft. Speed bump.

they have them on the tracks too

converse_uprise · 14 Feb 2008 at 18:34

Already exists. It's called red bull crashed ice. Pretty cool.

Vixen · 14 Feb 2008 at 18:55

stevenazari1 said:
stopping wouldnt be a problem, landing on 2 thin pieces of metal would.

1. if you have ever ice skated before you would know how hard it is to balance on a moving skate. now think of it travelling at around 50mph+ then think of lift off and gravity adding to that speed in downward force.
.

I'm guessing you've only ever been on the ice a couple of times from that. It's not difficult to balance on a moving skate at all, which is why figure skaters exist

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Dj_Jestar · 14 Feb 2008 at 18:59

Vixen said:
I'm guessing you've only ever been on the ice a couple of times from that. It's not difficult to balance on a moving skate at all, which is why figure skaters exist .

Moving skate is easier than stationary skate at that

stevenazari1 · 14 Feb 2008 at 19:30

Vixen said:
I'm guessing you've only ever been on the ice a couple of times from that. It's not difficult to balance on a moving skate at all, which is why figure skaters exist .

wow another to not read the whole thread

I said I thought the op was reffering to this sort of sport:

if he was do you really think a skater would have a chance!?

Vixen · 14 Feb 2008 at 19:33

stevenazari1 said:
wow another to not read the whole thread

I said I thought the op was reffering to this sort of sport

if he was do you really think a skater would have a chance!?

Your words, which I quoted, were "how hard it is to balance on a moving skate", nothing to do with going downhill. Perhaps you should learn to read yourself.