Ozzie NL Posted February 9, 2014 Posted February 9, 2014 Thoroughly enjoyed olympic 5km mens and 3km womens competitions. Being Dutch made it even sweeter Easy to see similarities with riding. From what I understand most skaters are good cyclists but reverse does not hold. Thoughts why we do not stack up on ice?
Joeboy69 Posted February 9, 2014 Posted February 9, 2014 Thoroughly enjoyed olympic 5km mens and 3km womens competitions. Being Dutch made it even sweeter Easy to see similarities with riding. From what I understand most skaters are good cyclists but reverse does not hold. Thoughts why we do not stack up on ice? Ice is something you put in your whiskey ! Andyr249 1
GaryvdM Posted February 9, 2014 Posted February 9, 2014 (edited) Yhea, well done to NL. Gold, silver, and bronze in the men's 5000m and gold in the women's 3000m. Both sports use the leg extenders (gluts, quads, calves) and both require good core strength. In addition to this, skating uses leg abductors (both legs on the straights, outside leg for crossovers), leg adductors (inside leg for crossovers), and the fibularis longus and fibularis brevis (when doing dutch rolls on the straights.) The ankles stabilizers also need to be very strong to be able to apply power into the skate. So skating uses all the muscles required for cycling. Cycling only uses some of the muscles required for skating. The other thing is, there is a lot more technique to learn in skating than there is in cycling. Learning to hold an outside edge in skating is often a stumbling block to learning to skate. (Disclaimer: I've never done speed skating. My knowledge of skating is from ice hockey & figure skating, and coaching both from beginners to club competition level.) P.S. There is a club that does short speed track at the rink at Festival Mall, Kempton Park. Unfortunately there are no long speed track facilities in the country, neither any frozen rivers to do a Elfstedentocht . Edited February 9, 2014 by GaryvdM
Cargyrl Posted February 10, 2014 Posted February 10, 2014 Track cycling and speed skating are close buddies, yes speed skaters makes awesome track cyclists. Both fantastic events to watch. Love the speed! Hectic
Sarge Posted February 10, 2014 Posted February 10, 2014 Hi gents,I know nothing about skating and need both my feet on the floor to stop from falling over, but what astounded me was the speeds that they are capable of. Wow, 130Km/hr down hill and averaging something like 60Km/hr round the "track" in the 5000m.Sarge
kosmonooit Posted February 10, 2014 Posted February 10, 2014 (edited) Roller blading is an excellent compliment to cycling, if only there was a boulevard in Joburg edit: apologies for the threadijack Edited February 10, 2014 by kosmonooit
Bateleur1 Posted February 10, 2014 Posted February 10, 2014 Last time I cycled in the Cape there were a few guys on the parallel road to Somerset West doing "speed skating" on roller blades. They were preparing for some event. It took us some time to catch up to those guys. They were motoring and it looked almost effortless.
Tumbleweed Posted February 10, 2014 Posted February 10, 2014 I saw a tweet from Taylor Phinney, saying the speed-skating commentator also used to be a voice of track cycling.
GaryvdM Posted February 10, 2014 Posted February 10, 2014 When last did they hold the eleven towns? '97. Global warming sucks.
Chro Mo Posted February 10, 2014 Posted February 10, 2014 yeah - I remember reading about it as a kid and through some Dutch friends of the family.
Chro Mo Posted February 10, 2014 Posted February 10, 2014 Thats a long time with no race. Saw some cool footage on youtube of open skating in China on lakes/rivers etc. Pretty impressive.
Cellar Posted February 10, 2014 Posted February 10, 2014 Why has no one posted a pic of that Ruski's boobs yet?
GoLefty!! Posted February 10, 2014 Posted February 10, 2014 12 years ago I live in Den Haag. There is an indoor skating rink at De Uithof (incuding go-kart track and other activities) where i tried my hand at speed skating. What I remeber most was how much stronger my core was after an skating every other day for 2 months. My cycling improved but I also got heavier from muscle. I used it a lot in the winter months as cross training. And yes those skates are very hard to use!The sport is really big over there. Every cyclist I knew was cross training on the skate rinks
F111 Posted February 10, 2014 Posted February 10, 2014 We had a speed skating club at the old ice ring in boksburg until it was close
F111 Posted February 11, 2014 Posted February 11, 2014 The science of speed skating, for the uninitiated Summer Olympians.http://t.co/cHrdEMAyHG
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