Ice and Roller Hockey Players Must Take Safety Measures: There are many sports played on ice and is exposed to mankind. One such game that has been gaining a lot of popularity over a decade now is the Ice and Roller Hockey. Many aspiring youngsters are also training themselves well in the present days to secure a career in ice and roller hockey in the future. The rules of the game is extremely simple, the players are wearing skates and are expected to chase a puck, guard them from the opponents with their sticks and eventually hit it into the competing team’s net to score a goal and make more points.
The ice and roller hockey is generally very popular in areas that have very cold climates and have sufficient amount of snowfall in most time of the year. This helps the skating rinks to be naturally reliable on the weather condition and automatically the maintenance cost crops down. In places like Finland, Slovakia, Canada, Latvia, Austria, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Russia, northern places of United States and Scandinavian are few such places where Ice and Roller Hockey have a huge craze. This sport is played by both men as ell as women who participate in frequent tournaments.
The ice and roller hockey is quite a harsh sport and hence proper safety measures are always demanded. Firstly, people suffering any kind of injuries must avoid playing as the injuries might turn worse during the game. During the ice and roller hockey games one must also use protective equipments like helmets, elbow pads, protective gloves, athletic cups, skates, neck protectors are an option, shoulder pads, mouth guards, heavily padded shorts and last but not the least are shin pads. The goal tenders of the ice and roller hockey sports also use various gears for additional protection, like the chest or arm protector, leg pads, etc.
