Cornell's ice-skating treadmill

[PinkyGen]

CSTV and youtube are good for something after all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhXvlLiVXCo&eurl=

The video's been floating around the net, and just made an appearance on Deadspin, which, per the blog's rule, ridiculed the concept. Don't take it personally.

http://www.deadspin.com/sports/hockey/a-very-quick-and-cold-way-to-hurt-yourself-220427.php

[French Rage]

I Like some of the comments:

"boy, that kevin mcleod is a good-lookin' kid, huh?

Yeah, his fivehead is hyoooge."

"He looks like the love child of Gary Sinise and Fulton from Mighty Ducks."

"Little known fact: The a capella group, "Here Comes Treble", also uses the ice-skating treadmill..."

Also didnt MTU have one before us?

[las224]

My favorite comment: "Looks as painful as being stuck in an arena with Cornell hockey fans." I sense a jealous rival...

[Jacob '06]

[quote French Rage]

Also didnt MTU have one before us?[/quote]

No, we've had ours for a couple of years and they just got theirs this offseason.

[ursusminor]

But MTU fans on USCHO spent the whole summer bragging about it. It seems to have helped them.

[Rita]

[quote ursusminor]But MTU fans on USCHO spent the whole summer bragging about it. It seems to have helped them. [/quote]

Not tonight, at least after 1 period... they are losing to the evil gophers 3-0.

[las224]

Anyone know if non-team members are allowed to use the treadmill?

[Roy 82]

Anyone know what the plastic ice-like surface is? How often does it need to be replaced? Can it be resurfaced with heat?

Since I live here in beautiful Califonia, I am wondering if you could make an entire rink out of it and how differentit would be from ice (rollerblades just aren't the same). I suspect that it is much higher friction than ice. A quick online search supports this notion:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12649528&dopt=Abstract

[Tom Lento]

[quote Roy 82]Anyone know what the plastic ice-like surface is? How often does it need to be replaced? Can it be resurfaced with heat?

Since I live here in beautiful Califonia, I am wondering if you could make an entire rink out of it and how differentit would be from ice (rollerblades just aren't the same). I suspect that it is much higher friction than ice. A quick online search supports this notion:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12649528&dopt=Abstract[/quote]

I don't know about the treadmill, but I was in Wilmington, Delaware for a first night celebration (sort of a family-oriented, publicly sponsored, early evening New Year's Eve party) and I saw an outdoor rink made of a DuPont material (as far as I can tell, DuPont basically owns downtown Wilmington, in case you were wondering). They just threw down this white plastic stuff right on the street and set up some low dasher boards and bingo - instant ice. I didn't try to walk on it, but it seemed like it was slippery enough to skate, and kids were cruising around on your typical rental hockey skates. If you can call it cruising. Cute, but I dunno if it'd make a decent hockey rink, and I imagine that things like stopping would be dramatically different from ice.

[cbuckser]

An ill-advised investment into a synethic ice rink sent Bryan Trottier into bankruptcy a decade ago.

[KeithK]

[quote Roy 82]Anyone know what the plastic ice-like surface is? How often does it need to be replaced? Can it be resurfaced with heat?

Since I live here in beautiful Califonia, I am wondering if you could make an entire rink out of it and how differentit would be from ice (rollerblades just aren't the same). I suspect that it is much higher friction than ice. A quick online search supports this notion:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12649528&dopt=Abstract[/quote]
Yes in fact you can make an entire rink out of it.  Someone I know opened a hockey training center in Santa Clara a couple years ago.  He's since moved to Denver and the web address no longer works so I'm guessing it didn't work out that well.

[LaJollaRed]

It's the strangest thing...Today I was in the Ramin room, trying to break into one of the side rooms to get to some gear of mine that had been mistakenly locked in there.

Anyway--While I was climbing over rusty fitness bikes, I came across this holy Treadmill...The surface is a rough, cottony glass...strange!