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Plastic pitches

[b said:
Quote[/b] (W4 Shrimper @ Nov. 10 2004,10:43)]
[b said:
Quote[/b] (sufcintheprem @ Nov. 10 2004,09:57)]The skin on my knees is a scarred mess from too much astroturf sliding.

Grass helps to alleviate the pain
Have you played on that 'rubber crumb' surface?

It's used in most of the 'Goals' five-a-side centres nowadays. Instead of sand being used with the turf, they use bits of rubber (like shredded car tyres).

You can slide on the surface and not get burns, plus it plays much truer - the bounce is far less exaggerated and the ball doesn't run as quickly as it does on 'traditional' astro turf.
In our Roko league in Portsmouth we weren't allowed to slide







(but yeah, was a lot better. Still managed to carve my leg open on it but it was the cage round the outside you had to be more careful of.)
 
[b said:
Quote[/b] ]Spare a thought for the poor keepers sliding all about on the pitch, cutting their knees to shreds

Behave, its a mans game. I don't think I've seen the skin on our around my knee and up by my hamstring for months. I'm sliding around on astro turfs in shorts every wednesday so I certainly wont be sparing a thought for them. Big girls. They are over protected anyways.
 
[b said:
Quote[/b] (sufcintheprem @ Nov. 11 2004,09:18)]
[b said:
Quote[/b] (W4 Shrimper @ Nov. 10 2004,10:43)]
[b said:
Quote[/b] (sufcintheprem @ Nov. 10 2004,09:57)]The skin on my knees is a scarred mess from too much astroturf sliding.

Grass helps to alleviate the pain
Have you played on that 'rubber crumb' surface?

It's used in most of the 'Goals' five-a-side centres nowadays. Instead of sand being used with the turf, they use bits of rubber (like shredded car tyres).

You can slide on the surface and not get burns, plus it plays much truer - the bounce is far less exaggerated and the ball doesn't run as quickly as it does on 'traditional' astro turf.
In our Roko league in Portsmouth we weren't allowed to slide







(but yeah, was a lot better.  Still managed to carve my leg open on it but it was the cage round the outside you had to be more careful of.)
What league were you in at roko?used to play there on a monday used to love playing on that surface was always a laugh when the opposition went flying into the fence with maybe a little help!!
 
[b said:
Quote[/b] (londonblue @ Nov. 10 2004,15:08)]There was no difference between it and real grass.
Try telling Daisy the Cow that, she's been sh*tting through the eye of a needle for weeks now!
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