Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Roller Hockey Surface - Ice Court Exxcess

In roller hockey, the surface is the most important element. A fast game is more exciting for the players as well as for the audience. IceCourt is the fastest skating surface with specific, patented design elements to speed up the game of inline hockey. It is the only surface specially designed for inline hockey.

hockey players on IceCourt Exxess
The tile panels click together very easily and leaves the surface seamless and without any gap to catch or slow the puck. The surface perforation difuses air pressure build-up underneath the high speed inline hockey puck, so the puck does not lift or wobble. Tiny pinheads on the surface elevate the puck so it glides as if on a sheet of ice.

The wheel grip is perfect. At high speeds the special surface relief creates a secure sense of skate contact, allowing high speed skating maneuverability. At fast skating speeds the wheels only touch the top surface with very low friction; while at maneuvering speeds and hockey stops the wheels dig into the lower surface profile for tremendous grip. Special silicon-soaked panels within the Goalkeeper’s crease help goalies do fast side-slip maneuvers.

IceCourt EXXESS was chosen as the Official Floor for the World Championships of International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF), Amateur Athletic Union (AAU), Junior Olympics, State Wars Hockey, just to name a few. IceCourt EXXESS is also being used in several countries for their National inline hockey championships.

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Ice Court - Sport Floors - Who We Are

In 1996 the IIHF in Switzerland commissioned the design and production of an inline hockey floor, with similar skating and puck behavior as ice hockey.

The first floor was introduced in 1997 during an international IIHF inline hockey tournament in Bratislava, Slovakia, with teams from six countries.
IIHF World Championship 2006


IceCourt LLC was formed in 1998 in the USA and has since supplied the surfaces for many World Championships held in Europe and North America and National Championships world wide.

IceCourt has become the worlds leading specialist in flooring for roller sports with hundreds of floors sold around the world. No other company has designed floors so specific to figure skating, artistic skating, speed skating, Roller Derby, quad roller hockey and inline hockey.

Floors made for roller sports are the toughest of any floor. They must withstand the pounding of hockey sticks, the impact of players and skates, the scratches and slides of tumbling skaters and the shifting of the floor by hundreds of people skating in a counterclockwise direction.

For roller sports, the floors need to be seamless, virtually monolithic, and extraordinarily flat. Nobody in the Polypropylene industry has achieved a better product with all these attributes.

The extraordinary quality of IceCourt has led it to be the preferred floor for multipurpose use, such as basketball, volleyball, lacrosse, ball hockey, soccer, dodge ball, gymnastics and aerobics.

IceCourt is also used for private basement covering and backyard courts.