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Skate Science 101
Pay Attention class, this lesson is a practical.
I'd like you all to get on of your Roller Skates and place it on a Flat level surface. Now I'd like you to observe what that skate does for the next two minutes.
That's right it does nothing,Nil,Nought,Zero,Nada. If it does Roll anywhere that effect can be explained by Greeks and men with Long Beards who sit under Apple Trees doing hard Maths and its an effect called Gravity. I can absolutely guarantee that the Roller Skate sat on your table top can't juke and duck around blockers,it can't work out the best thing to do if its penalty box is full and it is on the track with only one more blocker on its team, it can't hit a Jammer off the track and realise it needs to skate backwards to force a penalty and it sure as hell can't weigh up the risks and decide that an Apex jump is the best course to take past that super tight wall.
Now for the Theory, pay attention at the back.
For that Roller skate to move lots of things must happen. The player needs to gather information, Visual, what’s happening on and off the track, where are all the players, what are they doing, what are they going to be doing? Audible, What is being shouted, who is shouting it? Touch, Who is close, how close are they?
All that information has to be processed by a Powerful Supercomputer called the brain. The Signal has to be separated from the noise, this takes practise, working out what is useful information(The Signal) and what is unnecessary distraction (The Noise). The Brain has to make sense of the signal, piece together the different inputs and turn those inputs into outputs.
Those outputs take the form of tiny electrical signals that travel from the Brain along the Nerves to the Muscles of the skater, The Signals have to be strong,clear and accurate so that brain needs to be working at 100%. Now is not time for the Brain to be wondering if the cooker was left on,the door locked or what crazy stuff is going to be happening at the after party.
Once the signals reach the muscles those muscles best be capable of doing what they are being told, again this takes practise,it takes time and it takes repetition. The muscles need to be fit and healthy, ready to respond to the data that is being pulsed through them continuously.
Finally those muscle movements meet the skate. There are probably millions of combinations of skates out there if you take all the variables of boot,plate, wheels, cushions, toe stops into account. There are going to be some skates that do have characteristics that work well for a significantly larger number of skaters than other skates. There will be outliers, skaters who like a rock solid plate, super small skaters who don't bend a Nylon plate, skaters who love a wheel stickier or harder than everyone else on the team and can make it work for them.
Just as a virtuoso violinist can get the best out of a Stradivarius a skater needs to put in the hours of practise to make sure the the inputs,the brain and the outputs are all top class. So yeah skates are good, having good skates is good but its only one part of what makes a good skater, its not everything.
Your home work for this week is skate fast, turn left. Class dismissed.
I'd like you all to get on of your Roller Skates and place it on a Flat level surface. Now I'd like you to observe what that skate does for the next two minutes.
That's right it does nothing,Nil,Nought,Zero,Nada. If it does Roll anywhere that effect can be explained by Greeks and men with Long Beards who sit under Apple Trees doing hard Maths and its an effect called Gravity. I can absolutely guarantee that the Roller Skate sat on your table top can't juke and duck around blockers,it can't work out the best thing to do if its penalty box is full and it is on the track with only one more blocker on its team, it can't hit a Jammer off the track and realise it needs to skate backwards to force a penalty and it sure as hell can't weigh up the risks and decide that an Apex jump is the best course to take past that super tight wall.
Now for the Theory, pay attention at the back.
For that Roller skate to move lots of things must happen. The player needs to gather information, Visual, what’s happening on and off the track, where are all the players, what are they doing, what are they going to be doing? Audible, What is being shouted, who is shouting it? Touch, Who is close, how close are they?
All that information has to be processed by a Powerful Supercomputer called the brain. The Signal has to be separated from the noise, this takes practise, working out what is useful information(The Signal) and what is unnecessary distraction (The Noise). The Brain has to make sense of the signal, piece together the different inputs and turn those inputs into outputs.
Those outputs take the form of tiny electrical signals that travel from the Brain along the Nerves to the Muscles of the skater, The Signals have to be strong,clear and accurate so that brain needs to be working at 100%. Now is not time for the Brain to be wondering if the cooker was left on,the door locked or what crazy stuff is going to be happening at the after party.
Once the signals reach the muscles those muscles best be capable of doing what they are being told, again this takes practise,it takes time and it takes repetition. The muscles need to be fit and healthy, ready to respond to the data that is being pulsed through them continuously.
Finally those muscle movements meet the skate. There are probably millions of combinations of skates out there if you take all the variables of boot,plate, wheels, cushions, toe stops into account. There are going to be some skates that do have characteristics that work well for a significantly larger number of skaters than other skates. There will be outliers, skaters who like a rock solid plate, super small skaters who don't bend a Nylon plate, skaters who love a wheel stickier or harder than everyone else on the team and can make it work for them.
Just as a virtuoso violinist can get the best out of a Stradivarius a skater needs to put in the hours of practise to make sure the the inputs,the brain and the outputs are all top class. So yeah skates are good, having good skates is good but its only one part of what makes a good skater, its not everything.
Your home work for this week is skate fast, turn left. Class dismissed.