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I took your advice. Three skates in its holding up well and super slippery on the ice. Thanks for giving me my pads back! Missed them

Hello all. I have some pads that I installed screw on slide plates for roller hockey. I want to remove them and use them for ice so I'm just looking for possible options to fix them. Is it as simple as stitching and super glue? For reference the longest cut would be about 1 Inch long on the knee block followed by 4 screw holes.

Just thought I'd follow up on my journey Mid September, I bought some goalie skates and started practicing on those. Found out real quick that goalie skates are significantly easier. I started doing drills for hours. I took the plunge and went to local shinny. As expected, I made an ass of myself and felt happy doing it. A couple weeks later someone got my number and begged me to play a d division game. I told the guy straight up I have no place playing there and he still asked me to come. We won 5-2. Felt great. I started picking up inline skating too and it's been helping me. A guy running a Sunday morning skate asked me to come play with them and now I'm really getting quality practice time. Every week I'm getting better and I feel like my skating is improving every week too. I'm feeling great. Playing ice hockey for the first time in my life and I feel blessed

Funny enough someone asked me to ref roller hockey so I just got some inlines!

I appreciate all the replies. Im working on a little of everything and paying attention to my edges a little bit more rather than skating around and stopping alot. Lemons (swizzles) seemed impossible to me off the start but now that I have a better grasp on edges its getting easier for me. Ive spent alot of time recently trying to button hook alot and get used to just moving around the ice differently. It will come in time. I appreciate everyones feedback.

Greetings goalies. A bit about myself first. Kind of deprived as a kid, was never taught to skate. Played ball hockey instead my whole life. I'm 37 now. At 27 my wife took me skating for the first time and I loved it. One hour in I fell and broke my elbow. Never skated again for 5 years. Tried it again and never felt comfortable because I was scared of getting hurt. I tried again but still afraid. I'm getting tired of playing ball hockey now so I finally got the balls to start skating again and gave myself a goal to play shinny in January of 2024. I'm really loving it. I'm learning by myself skating two times a week for an hour. I'm on player skates right now trying to learn the three priorities. Skating forward, skating backwards, and stopping. I'm picking it up fast and I'm happy with my progress. I've skated 12 times or so now and intend to hit my goal of getting another 30 skates in by the end of the year. So, when I asked on goalie reddit for advice, they told me to learn things like crossovers and backwards crossovers and what I'm really trying to do is just learn goalie specific stuff so I thought I'd turn here to ask. My plan was to get a firm grasp of the three things I mentioned, buy goalie skates, and then work on stuff with pads on like t push, shuffle etc. Does this sound like a good approach for what I'm trying to do?