| This article provides useful, detailed information about | | | | Costs run about $400 depending on quality. Roller |
| Roller Hockey Equipment. | | | | hockey players wear loose jerseys, pants and socks. |
| Roller hockey, also known as inline hockey, is played | | | | For protection, helmets with mouth guards, kneepads |
| on roller or inline skates with wheels, which are placed | | | | and elbow pads are recommended. Hockey gloves-or |
| in sets of three or four in a single line. Skates are | | | | at least wrist guards-should be worn. More |
| generally priced at $100 and up.Aluminum sticks are | | | | safety-conscious players may also wear shoulder |
| preferred for roller hockey, however, wooden sticks | | | | pads and padded pants with shin guards as well as a |
| covered with fiberglass may also be used. This is | | | | jockstrap. Goalies, of course, need more protection. In |
| because concrete or cement, upon which inine hockey | | | | addition to all the protective gear mentioned above, a |
| is usually played, is much harder on the sticks than ice. | | | | goalie must also be equipped with chest, back and |
| The sticks, with suede or rubber grips, are broader and | | | | throat protectors, extra-padded leg pads, mask cages |
| bent at the base, to maneuver the puck or ball and are | | | | and more. Roller hockey is a street game with as |
| priced at upwards of $20. Roller hockey is played with | | | | many safety concerns as regulation hockey. In fact, |
| either a puck or a ball. The puck is made of hard, | | | | roller hockey can be more dangerous since, although |
| vulcanized rubber and is made in regulation sizes; balls | | | | the game is not quite as fast as ice hockey, concrete |
| are made of plastic. Both cost about $5 each. Goal | | | | or cement does not allow one to slide along the |
| nets are supported by steel frames with nylon nets | | | | surface when one falls, causing more scrapes to the |
| and can be dismantled for storage. They are | | | | skin. |
| approximately the same as those used for ice hockey. | | | | |