Ice hockey equipment
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 is able to help players to have support and strength. Hockey skaters originally for high level leather to be sewed. From 60s to 7os there are shoes with all the plastic moulding.
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. It is suitable for using them in indoor.
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 blade of ice hockey is high and short, 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. Blade has radian big so that they have small contact area with ice. It is able to taxiing and come about easily and flexible. The thick blade may have resistance of fighting and it is not easy to bend. The blade with shallow groove may make its sharp lasting.
There are special thicken hard leather in the surroundings of skating shoes of keepers. It is to fight the ball struck and protect 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. There are many links between blade and knife arm in order to escape for ball in case. It has one great different from figure skate. That is to say that the surface of stressing is small and it is so agile and it also have the function of resisting impact.
Protective equipment: The athletes ought to put the protective equipment in the event of getting hurt in the ardent match. The protection equipment includes that helmet, masks, protection shoulder, protection breast, protection waist, insulation, protection elbow, gloves, short trousers, leg guards protection ankle, etc. The ice hockey in the modern is using light and hard material and outside are plastic shells and inside are sponge or foam cushion. The masks, gloves, the thickness of the protection of breast and the thicken of widen protection of legs are specially designed to the keepers.
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