Tip of the week: skate safely on natural ice – Sport.nl

Finally, the weather: ice skating on natural ice. But step never just misguided a frozen lake or ditch, and do that certainly not on your own.

Warm clothes on, a hat on your head, and ice skating under. For a lot of skaters is that the standard equipment for the natural ice. But the KNSB recommends you that hat anyway, in exchange for a schaatshelm.

Helmet

Where a ski and bicycle helmets are very common, it is for recreational skaters not yet so obvious to also on the ice wear a helmet. However, hopes Hans Kool of the KNSB that will quickly change. "We see more accidents with head injury at the time that there is a natural ice skating can be," he says in the AD.

Required

"About two, three years bears probably everyone a helmet", is the expectation of Hans. And if that isn’t the case, then the KNSB see whether the wear will still be obliged can be made.

blow Hard

Also neurosurgeon Bakhtyar Burhani, who works in the Elisabeth-Tweesteden Hospital in Tilburg, the netherlands, emphasizes how important it is to be on the ice wear a helmet. "That protects the brain against a hard slap on the ice, but also against the irons of the other skaters."

Ice

On natural ice is not only important to keep your head well protected, but also to check whether the ice be thick enough. You do not try it yourself, but by a visit to the website Schaatsen.nl or by the app 'on The ice' of the KNSB. Here are the information about the ice that the KNSB of the ijsmeesters of different ijsverenigingen in the country has received.

Seven inches

"These people are trained and can, therefore, say with certainty whether the ice is thick enough to skate," says a spokesperson of the KNSB to Nu.nl. "For recreational ice skating is available seven inches is sufficient, for the matches or tours must be twelve inches thick."

Black ice

take a Look on the spot to the color of the ice, earlier Martin of Brushing as a tip. "Zwartkleurig ice cream with frozen, move snow, it is often not safe. Pure black ice is strong." Also, you have to be alert on ice with aangevroren edges that a yellowish white colour and on ice at bridges, reeds, aquatic plants and overhanging branches of trees. Often this ice is unsafe. Go finally, never just on your own on the ice. Martin: "And take an ice pick or other object which you in the ice can sting, if you by the ice bags."

Sources: AD.nl and Nu.nl

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