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Since I realized I WAS making slight marks on my hardwood floor finish, I got a piece of plywood from one of the kids' bunk beds in storage and dragged it up to our bedroom and put it down on the carpet in front of the mirrored armoir! I've been practicing my toe skating, spread eagles out to the side on the back wheels, little toe spins, dance steps, etc. My husband is about to go nuts with the clomping in the house, so I'm trying to get in 1/2 hour, hour here and there when he's not around!
Well, it paid off tonight at the rink! One of my buddies was skating around slowly, watching me and he said, "You've got too much time on your hands!" When I told him what I had been doing this past week he said, "I thought so...you weren't skating like that last week!" I think I need to get a smoother type of material though...the plywood is too grainy and slower. Took me a few minutes to adjust to the slickness of the floor tonight. Now if I can just get my husband to look the other way at that ugly piece of plywood up against the wall when I'm not using it, in our pretty bedroom! You know, if it was his plywood, I'd be having a fit! ![]()
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lol....just get hubby to build an addition complete with rink quality floor!
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Hey Tuesday,
I've wondered if a piece of plywood would be enough area to actually do anything on. Thanks for writing about your experience! I can see plywood popping up in our garage, the living room, the bathroom...
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Brantford, Ontario, Canada
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I use a sheet of plexiglass in the winter time as I have nowhere to skate with the snow on the ground. You can at least work on footwork and keep from getting totally rusty in the spring.
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My current piece is even actually a bit smaller than 4 x 8 because it was cut down to fit a twin size bunk bed! So a true 4 x 8 would be even better. It's really helped me with precision and balance since I don't have liberal room to use for balance. Obviously, you can't do all dance sequences if the steps are spread out over more space, but I'm really getting in some good practice with what I have! If you need forward space you skate the board lengthwise...if you need more space to the sides, you turn on the board and go the length that way! This morning I was practicing the moon-walk, and another step a guy at the rink was teaching us the night before. It's enough room to practice toe shuffling, heel spread eagles, spins, some of Richard Humphrey's dance step moves, most of the moves from that Missiles French roller dance video that is on skatelog (I work on a lot of those steps) etc. I use my iPod for timing as well! If you have a mirror somewhere in the house...awesome...then you can check out your form and what needs work....something usually not available at a rink! This has been such a good work-out for me this past week. I am wringing wet from sweat when I get finished. Try it! And you are right... it's portable.
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Lauan plywood is smoother than regular. It's a quarter of an inch thick and expensive. It is the underlayment on tiled floors.
If you are an ecological activist, however, consider: http://www.rainforestrelief.org/What...t/Plywood.html Anyway, You've got me thinking of building my own outdoor skating platform: 8 foot square, two pieces of lauan, two pieces of 3/4-inch ordinary plywood underneath, two-by-fours or two-by-sixes. But when it rains? |
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At first I tried finding a level spot in our back yard to put the plywood on. We have a crappy lawn that we haven't fixed up yet and would you believe there was not one level spot that I didn't roll off of?
If you built something bigger than 4 x 8 it wouldn't be very portable. You wouldn't be able to pick it up and set it upright in the garage (which we also don't have) by yourself for when it rained. I suppose you could put your 2 x 4 frame on some outdoor tiles to get it up from the ground and then cover the "floor" tightly with a tarp. But the humidity might warp it. What about waterproofing your material or using outdoor decking material? Or, if it was left outside uncovered it will get dusty and dirty and you might trash your skates. I am not familiar with what is out there for building materials, but maybe some of you that are can suggest ideas for building little outdoor "jam" rinks! This sounds like so much fun! ![]()
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A neighbor of mine has a screened-in gazebo in his back yard. It was pre-fab, delivered by truck and installed. Probably a couple thousand dollars, though. I've never looked closely at its interior or floor. But in warm weather, it is meant as a place to sit outside while avoiding the mosquitoes. A multi-use space.
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You could pay for a lot of skating rink admissions for a couple thousand dollars!
One more thought...when I told the rink DJ about my plywood skating floor he laughed and joked, "Hey, bring us your board and we'll "finish" it for you!" I suppose if you wanted to have a quality finish to skate on, you could get some of that roll-on that goes on the floating wood skating rink floors. Brikkee...you probably know all about this? Hey...new business...Sporky is doing the bling plates, someone can start building mini portable skating floors for all of us skatelog nerds! ![]()
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Oh Gawd, the shipping....the shipping!
On another note...now you have me thinking of local places who's floors would be suitable.Some churches have rec. areas.....I have wood floors (old pine) and I live in a upper. So practice may be out.......BUT I can get plywood!
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Have been using a 4x8 sheet of MDO plywood with about three coats of gloss spar varnish. The TLA stands for "Medium Density Overlay"... 'means it has some sort of heavy duty paper bonded to both sides of the sheet. The bonding compound is very hard; the panels are mainly used in the concrete construction trade for building custom concrete forms. The smooth surface of the panels is to form a very smooth face on the pour. It's been about 3+ years since mine was purchased but it was ~$35 for a 5/8" sheet and that was a "blem". I haven't had to refinish it despite pretty regular practice the first year and "on'n'off since. Use was mostly Rich Humphrey's roller dance videos. I got mine at a local lumber yard (a real one, not a big box store).
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![]() Yeah, I checked out our newly revamped rec center that has three gyms and a new dance studio. The director thought he might let me skate somewhere there and would especially like it if I found a group of people that would do it together once a week or so. They would sit back and see if it would turn into a class they could offer. He wanted to know if I would instruct it (yeah, right!) or if I knew of an instructor. Heck, I don't even know anyone in the neighborhood who skates! Anyway, another woman running around at the grand opening on Saturday said, "No, you won't be able to skate here....we discussed it." Since the floors are all brand new, maybe I will have to wait until the neighbor kids trash them and then go back and try again! I was also eyeing all the open areas of that building, the little class rooms with tiled floors, craft rooms, etc. There were A LOT of areas a girl could skate in, but I doubt they would ever let me. When you live in a big city, there are often too many rules to govern the masses! You could probably get away with it in a smaller community.
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The objection some of the community centers might bring up is their liability if a skater were injured on their property.
30 years ago I used to skate outdoors in many parking lots, parking decks, playgrounds, etc. Later I saw signs all over prohibiting skates and skateboards. At first I thought it was anti-skating bias; upon reflection, I figured their insurance companies required them to do so. |
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then I say OUT with the insurance companies!
it's time they stopped making the laws anyway
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Yes, it helps a lot. Any particular kind of varnish? And why do you need varnish on it? So you don't wear out the material? I haven't seen the board you are talking about yet as I have a busy next two weeks and won't be a able to look around at the lumber yard! But I seriously want to fix myself up a new "board rink".
Yes, you are so right, working on a board does seriously make you stay tight and precise. I really notice my lower back muscles having to work much harder for the balance because you don't have room to go if you need it for natural balance.
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Why not use Roll On to coat your plywood?
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A friend of mine put down wood flooring in one room in their house to use it as a practice floor... and he asked the rink owner for some Roll-On for it when he knew they were coating the rink floor. She would always just give him the leftovers whenever they coated the rink and it was always enough to do that one little room.
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