Goaltending: ice vs. roller?

[Scott Vandenberg]

Any advice on helping an ice hockey goalie adjust to roller hockey,
especially how to move faster side-to-side? I'm using inline hockey
skates. They're not goalie skates, but they're the ones I'll be using,
and I can't get inline goalie skates right now.

Thanks in advance for your help.

--Scott Vandenberg

[Howling Lunatic]

In the end, you just can't possibly get across as fast. But a few
things that have helped me is playing a little further back in net,
being a little more willing to dive across the net, and lifting my
feet when sliding over.

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[Michael G]

I can't explaing the reasoning but the goalies I know have smaller
diameter wheels. Really small. I am not sure exactly what diameter
or hardness. I expect they go on any chassis.
One of our goalies does short sprints back and forth maybe one and a
half times the distance of the goal posts practicing hockey stops. Try
20 stops.

Mike

[Timberwoof]

In article <38140c12....@news.ucdavis.edu>, m...@ucdavis.edu wrote:

> I can't explaing the reasoning but the goalies I know have smaller
> diameter wheels. Really small. I am not sure exactly what diameter
> or hardness. I expect they go on any chassis.
> One of our goalies does short sprints back and forth maybe one and a
> half times the distance of the goal posts practicing hockey stops. Try
> 20 stops.

Shorter wheels put you closer to the ground. If you compare ice skates for
goalies and players, the goalie skates will have less-tall blades. Also,
roller goalies like to have very hard wheels with not much traction; this
supposedly lets them side sideways. However, I'm convinced that roller
hockey is very hard on the goalie's knees, compared to ice hockey. I
played once and it left my knees hurting. I *never* have that happen on
ice.

> Mike
>
> vand...@cs.washington.edu (Scott Vandenberg) wrote:
>
> >Any advice on helping an ice hockey goalie adjust to roller hockey,
> >especially how to move faster side-to-side? I'm using inline hockey
> >skates. They're not goalie skates, but they're the ones I'll be using,
> >and I can't get inline goalie skates right now.
> >
> >Thanks in advance for your help.
> >
> >--Scott Vandenberg

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Timberwoof; mroeder<at>best<dot>com; http://www.best.com/~mroeder
Ice Hockey QA Engineer (Goalie), 1998 BMW R1100GS rider, and
not your ordinary noncomformist. "You may have the right to say that,
but I will defend to the death my right to disagree."

[Joe]

The smaller wheels are to get the skates, and therefore the pads, closer to
the floor. I believe they use 55 mm wheels but not positive (guess I could
get up and look in one of my catalogs eh? nahhh!!)

Joe

Michael G <m...@ucdavis.edu> wrote in message
news:38140c12....@news.ucdavis.edu...

> I can't explaing the reasoning but the goalies I know have smaller
> diameter wheels. Really small. I am not sure exactly what diameter
> or hardness. I expect they go on any chassis.
> One of our goalies does short sprints back and forth maybe one and a
> half times the distance of the goal posts practicing hockey stops. Try
> 20 stops.
>