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20080411 Friday April 11, 2008
Skate: Fail! Hockey

Long, long, ago, I used to play roller hockey with Joe, Rama and Will.  We played in the parking lots between Sun's Mountain View buildings (now all Google buildings).  Eventually I moved to ice hockey and hadn't touched the roller gear in years.  This week my wife's cousin needed a sub on his roller hockey team.  Not wanting to break my ankle trying to do an ice stop, I laced up the old pair and headed down the street with my dog running along side.  I took a few test turns, and then *snap* - I was on my butt.  Fortunately, it was not my ankle, but the skate itself.  The entire bottom half of the skate just broke off.  It was a cheap, plastic boot, not leather, and I guess we now know the lifespan of a cheap roller hockey skate.

The good news is I had two pairs of skates (outdoors and indoors) so I was still able to play since the game was indoors.

Broken skate

 

Broken skate 

 


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