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- From: ado@bbn.com (Buz Owen)
- Newsgroups: rec.skate
- Subject: Re: wanted
- Date: 30 Dec 1992 05:11:19 GMT
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- References: <1992Dec24.183821.599@wsuhub.uc.twsu.edu> <1hr37rINNndo@hpsdlss3.sdd.hp.com>
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- mark@sdd.hp.com (Mark Overton) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Dec24.183821.599@wsuhub.uc.twsu.edu>, hchammou@wsuhub.uc.twsu.edu writes:
- >|> Hello,
- >|>
- >|> I am looking for a synthetic iceskating on which it is possible to skate.
- >|> [...]
- >|> Francoise.
-
- >Are you referring to synthetic material which simulates the skating properties
- >of ice? I've never heard of any such thing. Rink-owners in hot climates
- >such as here in Southern California might be interested in it.
-
- >The closest thing I know of to ice-skating is in-line skating (which is not
- >real close, BTW).
-
- >- Mark Overton, mark@sdd.hp.com
-
- There really is such a substance. Unfortunately, I cannot supply
- chemical formula or source. A serious potential rink operator could
- probably track it down it by getting in touch with a rink equipment
- supplier. (Or try calling NBC, see below.) I can offer the following
- anecdotes.
-
- A few winters ago a rink made out of artificial ice was set up in
- Boston (sometwere near Fanuel Hall/Quincy Market, I think). I never
- got around to skating on it, and don't know if it is there this
- winter, although I didn't notice anything like that last time I was in
- the area, which was probably not during winter.
-
- I also saw an eposode of the David Letterman show, after the last
- Winter Olympics, in which Bonnie Blair skated down a hallway in the
- NBC studio building that had been paved with the stuff, in her own
- skates, at a less than record pace. I have the impression the stuff
- is not quite as slick as ice -- maybe from a bit of tv news footage of
- people skating on the rink after it was first installed, or from one
- of Blair's remarks when she estimated her time based on her eyeball of
- the length of the hall and how her run felt. She came quite close to
- the measured time, by the way.
-
- Buz Owen, ado@bbn.com
-
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