subject: Put Your Heart Into The Equipment Of Ice Hockey [print this page] The equipment of ice hockey The equipment of ice hockey
Tool: The players of ice hockey tools include skating shoes, hockey knife, protective clothing, and hockey stick.
Hockey Skates: it is tall waist type and shoes head, supportive, ankles, heel and outer layer are hard. The long tongue and the strong tall waist of shoes are able to banding our leg ankle. It may take support and power for the athletes. The hockey shoes are made of high quality leather before. The shoes of all plastic molding were made in 60s to 70s.
For the time being the shoes have nylon fibers supportive and plastic soles of shoes in the international world. This kind of shoes has stronger, lighter and better humidity resistance that are made of leather. We are able to put on them inside.
Hockey knife: it used to make Tito steel blade while it will use all product knife. There are strong advantages of light weight, fight resistance, uneasy to rust and so on in high quality steel blade. The ice hockey Zdeno Chara Jersey knife has high height and short of knife, radian big, thick blade. The tall knife will work well when the athletes take a sudden turn and it is able to avoid the shoes contacting the ice. Because the radian of blade is big and then it only contact small area of surface. It is so flexible to slide and change the direction. The thick blade may have resistance of fighting and it is not easy to bend. The hockey knife will have sharp for a long time on that condition of having shallow ridges.
There are special thicken hard leather in the surroundings of skating shoes of keepers. The function is to resist the impact of ball and to have prevention of their feet. The ice skate blade of goalkeepers and athletes have big different. It is made by all metal and blade is short and flat. In order that the ball will escape and then there are a lot of connections between blade and knife. There is a big different from figure skate. That is area of thrust surface of the blade is small, flexible, fight against beat.
Protective clothing: In order not to get injury in the violent match and the sports men should wear protective clothing all over the body. There are many kinds of equipment and they are protection of shoulder, breast, waist, insulation, elbow, leg, ankle and helmet, masks, gloves, short trousers and so on. Nowadays, the ice hockey are made of light and hard material and there are plastic shells and inside are sponge or foam cushion. The goalkeepers have special masks, gloves, the thickness of the protection of breast and thicken and widen protection of legs.
