Own up... who's gone skating?!?

Red Alert

Well, to be more exact, who's gone on either of the two new ice rinks and done some damage?

I managed to mess up my knee - but it was still worth it

rymus

two new ice rinks? I'm assuming that these are semi-permenant ones like the fota on ice thing? If so, wheres the other one?

Yeas, myself and the missus are heading to fota on ice but as I'm fairly handy at the old ice skating I wouldnt think I'll be damaging myself badly

Makaveli

Smithfield and The RDS are the ones I know of.

azezil

Went to smithfields rink with 3 other boardsers on friday, good laugh, i was doing pretty good then i tried to show off n fell... lol

honeymonster

Im goin to the RDS on the 15th,yay. But i've never been ice skatin before, bollox. I hope I dont break me legs cause I use em quite a lot.

Petal

Went out to the rds few days ago, great laugh.. my friend said the rds rink looked a bit bigger than the smithfield rink.. Only thing is tho it was kinda packed, so when u skated around you were tryna dodge everyone and the little cheeky kids that would skate out in front of you for a laugh to scare the life out of ya! Alot of accidents when i was there tho..

sionnach

me n 3 friends had the smithfield rink to ourselves for 3/4 of an hour before it opened last year, was gr8 craic

Duffman

RDS - knocked over lots of random children, it was fun.

Jim

the company i work for went on this big "day-out" to the smithfield one, but i declined to go.

two broke their legs and one broke their arm

Woden

was at the smithfield one with the g/f last saturday week, fairly handy as i live round there . Twas a bit of laugh the area is better then last year with all the christmas village and stuff thats there now. The carousel was fun also

AdMMM

Im going to the Waterford one next saturday, should be gr8 craic!

oneweb

Originally posted by Jimeatsmenu
the company i work for went on this big "day-out" to the smithfield one, but i declined to go.

two broke their legs and one broke their arm

My god, what sorta twats do ya work with! :eek: I can only imagine the pleasure when ya saw them hobbling into work the day/week after and you sitting there grinning from ear to ear!

We went to the RDS rink in a group of 7. One of the lads wreaked of a great night before yet performed brilliantly. Another - sober as can be - fell flat, 10 minutes in, face first breaking a tooth He followed that medical advice to get it on ice straight away

He wants to go again! Actually, so do I
Does the Smithfield rink still have those really painful old skates or did they get brand new ones like the RDS?

Woden

they seemed new and funky to me, kinda like roller blades with all the clips

Victor

Isn't their also one in the santa land thingy near Naas?

StickyMcGinty

didn't santys kingdom have to be evacuated yesterday??

The Second

I found a ticket in my house .. *seemingly worth a fair bit of money* .. to go skating outdoors on one of the rings at like ... midnight about two nights ago.. didn't go though... would have been class ...

The Second

tis kinda like something from the movies

oneweb

I haven't done it at night...
Is it better?

Victor

Note most of these rinks don't actually use real ice, but a plastic that acts like ice.

Originally posted by oneweb
I haven't done it at night...Is it better?

Much better, you get to fall over in the dark and break multiple limbs

Dustaz

I went to the one in the Financial Services Centre last year. It was sorta crappy because of the slippy lino they use instead of ice.

Very hard to actually get a bit of speed up. Not sure if thats the same as the current crop.

tba

I went to smithfield and discovered I was crap at skating, that was untill a 3 year old told me the secret before speeding away, and that secret was "keep both yer feet on da ground mista".

AL][EN

Originally posted by |.Murderer.|
Im going to the Waterford one next saturday, should be gr8 craic!

There's one in waterford now??? where's that?

I went once in france ice skating, knocked over lots of random french people fell over once or twice no major damage but i dont think i'll be ice skating again its not for me

Woden

tis real ice in smithfield as some of it had been crushed to snow like stuff by the time we had got on the rink at 9 in the evening or so.

eddhorse

Went to the one in the rds when it opened , i still have the cuts on my shins from the skates , id recommend to wear an extra pair of socks
twas really good though apart from that , u wouldnt believe how tough it is ,had to really concentrate to keep it steady , maybe im just useless.....
had one spectacular fall , a girl beside me was falling so she decided to grab me to steady herself making me look like a spa and then panned out in bits on the hard ice, ouch.she managed to stay up though
id say its a must:D

yellum

Originally posted by azezil
Went to smithfields rink with 3 other boardsers on friday, good laugh, i was doing pretty good then i tried to show off n fell... lol

Pinks on the Rinks as TomtheBox called us. It was a good laugh though and was on real ice.

Red Alert

It was a laugh alright - altho i did manage to bust up my kneecap!!!!!

Kone

I was thinking of going over Xmas, Can I just turn up and buy a ticket?

Red Alert

Yes you can but you would be better off booking one by phone. I don't have the no. maybe someone else here does?

Sundy

Originally posted by Victor
Note most of these rinks don't actually use real ice, but a plastic that acts like ice.

Only the crappy IFSC one last year was plastic, Smithfield was real ice and it is again this year and so is the rds.

Mewzel

i had to go on an outing to smithfield as part of an assignment for my college course, oh what a strenuous course it is i do was deadly fun. there was about 30 of us and only 2 other guys, who wetre quite drunk, and kept falling over. they were quite entertaining really
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dynamic.ie

I went to Smithfield last night and thought it was brilliant. Hadn't skated since I was 6 or something! Great atmosphere and people grabbing on to the nearest person to them for support... rather funny when they pulled like 10 people down with them.

Was quite proud of meself when I made it all the way around the rink without the barrier and without falling. Don't think I'll be able to do that again though... bit of a fluke me thinks!! Can't wait to go again all the same.

Well worth going... it rocks!

fozzle

Originally posted by AL][EN
There's one in waterford now??? where's that?

There's one in Waterford, out by Beat on the ring road. There's a thread about it here: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=126542
I'm hoping to go over Christmas but I'd imagine it'll be mobbed. I've only ever skated in Manchester and Toronto so I'm really looking forward to it. Although according to my sister, it's that sh1tty plastic stuff instead of ice - means it's slower and you're more likely to fall.:rolleyes:

tba

Its rather hard to do physically that is I was sweating very heavy by the end. (although I am not very fit)

Lawnkiller

w00t - I can skate now. It's all out of my system.