People Ice Skating On Plastic

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[Movie_Games]

if only there were things with wheels that you could put on your feet

[jasonjohannsen]

The girl jogging with her skates on ended me lmao

[oxymoron]

That girl basically paid 20 bucks to walk in a circle in high heels 😂

[_eighty]

As a hockey player, thats not ice, and its definitely not synthetic ice. That is A FLOOR.

[xxliaz]

The fact they’re literally walking more than actually skating

[YOUR_NARRATOR]

Floridians trying to experience a winter:
Calm down, I know we have ice rinks. I live here.

[alexzeng]

You know a skating rink is good when you can run on it 💀💀💀

[Xj]

The creator of rollerskates is probably rolling in his grave right now 🤣

[LeeVoolHM]

As a floridian, can confirm, these are common when it gets cold and we get jealous

[LivingTheorem]

This really is a "we have ice skating at home" moment

[LoosieGoosie]

I skated on plastic once but at least the surface was covered in soap so it felt like skating 💀

[Friday_The_Thirteenth]

Nah bro, that dude running had me dead 😭

[YoungWavXclusiv]

The fact there's "MULTIPLE" people with skate walkers on a FLOOR blows my mind

[neonlights]

The slow music in the background is the cherry on top 😂😂😂

[brandoncohoon]

It’s not that they’re stupid for skating there, it’s that they’re stupid for ice skating in a roller skating rink 😂

[ovrmya]

the people who are actually trying to ice skate on that floor 😭😭😭

[stormb]

Former professional skater here. What they’re skating on is called “Glice” among other brand names.

TL;DR: It’s a synthetic ice surface which is essentially a plastic polyethylene surface that is cheap, portable and easy to set up.

Synthetic ice is used for a few different things. Some skaters will buy some panels of glice to set up in their backyard or garage to train at home, and it’s also used by smaller travelling shows or companies that set them
up for amusement purposes such as in this video. Glice obviously doesn’t require the refrigerator pipes beneath the surface that real ice rinks require and therefore is more cost effective and easier to set up in shopping centres and so forth. Basically, their pitch is that you can have it wherever you want, even out in the sun in 30c temperatures and it’s cost effective. But all that comes at the cost of missing out on that authentic ice feel, although the manufacturers will tell you it feel’s exactly like real ice.

You can skate on the surface “as is” which it looks like they’re doing in this video. This is typically safer for less experienced skaters such as the general public, but when being used by performing or training skaters, it’s usually lathered with a lubricant substance which makes it much easier to skate on and more like real ice.

This actually isn’t a new invention, synthetic ice has been around since the mid 1800s although it wasn’t commonly used until it was more refined in the 1980s.

[Khmra]

I feel like someone forgot to fill in the rink lmao

[markjrcolin]

As a Canadian, I feel incredibly bad that these people can’t skate on real ice.

[dominickray]

Bro, people are just walking in circles 💀