Downhill Ice Skating

[stevenazari1]

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.

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.

was the full line - to the novice balance is the hardest thing to do. now read the rest of my statement and as I have already stated the statement in question was refering to ski jumping not ski racing so stop trying to twist words with part quotes. even your quote clearly shows I was refering to ski jumping.

 

[Vixen]

was the full line - to the novice balance is the hardest thing to do. now read the rest of my statement and as I have already stated the statement in question was refering to ski jumping not ski racing so stop trying to twist words with part quotes. even your quote clearly shows I was refering to ski jumping.

No, you were talking about skating, then you went on to say how you thought it would be harder to do it at an angle. Balancing on the ice is easy, and the sort of people who would want to skate downhill wouldn't be stepping on the ice for the first time .

 

[stevenazari1]

the sort of people who would want to skate downhill wouldn't be stepping on the ice for the first time .

obviously but then Im not just refering to a downward slope, my slop has a giant ramp to deliberately propell the person as far into the air as humanly possible:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwTcc1W-UeM

 

[semi-pro waster]

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.

Like Jokester said, try skiing in Scotland. Ice ice baby.

Although that said it has been a reasonably good season this year in that there were more than two weeks of it where you could go.

 

[stevenazari1]

Like Jokester said, try skiing in Scotland. Ice ice baby.

Although that said it has been a reasonably good season this year in that there were more than two weeks of it where you could go.

mild difference between metre long ski's and ice skates lol

 

[semi-pro waster]

mild difference between metre long ski's and ice skates lol

When you are sliding down a slope on your bum you might see it slightly differently. The main benefit of skis at that point is you should be able to use them to slow down quicker but even then it depends on the gradient and underlying snow conditions.

 

[stevenazari1]

you can get back on ski's as it is very hard to roll as the ski's can stop you from toppling.

cant say the same for skates hehe

 

[ScarySquirrel]

This is basically what I meant.

 

[Semple]

'Whoever is alive by the end wins' is about the only possible sport.

 

[Tek81]

12 ****** years....

 

[ScarySquirrel]

12 ****** years....

Sorry, just going through old threads I created and realising how much of a ******* I was. However, I was right about this one.

 

[chroniclard]

Doncaster Dome use to have two levels at their ice skating place. So you could speed down the hill to the next rink and back round.

Dont know if it exists anymore, 30 years since I went. Video above is a bit more extreme tho.

 

[builder22]

'Let's go'

 

[DanTheMan]

Lol thanks for quoting me 12 years ago. When I read the notification, I was very confused!

 

[TrannyBill]

Doncaster Dome use to have two levels at their ice skating place. So you could speed down the hill to the next rink and back round.

Dont know if it exists anymore, 30 years since I went. Video above is a bit more extreme tho.

It surely still does

 

[Hagar]

Rollerball on Ice would be cool, watch the 1975 James Caan version on a banked track then visualise the carnage on the ice.

 

[wolfie138]

You could put pillows at the bottom to stop them getting hurt as I appreciate stopping might be an issue.

put bungee cords across the bottom, and have bonus points for whoever gets furthest back up the hill.

 

[WolandPetrov]

Hahah, it looks too risky, as Ithink