You can't play roller hockey with your arm in a sling or your leg in a cast. So check out what's new and what's hot in this roundup of the best shoulder, elbow, knee and shin gear on the market this year.
Roller hockey is a tough sport, but the ground is often tougher.
That's why manufacturing companies across the continent are constantly striving to make protecting your physical well-being a secondary concern to scoring goals or stopping them. From the professional all the way down to the beginner, protective gear is a necessity for the roller hockey player one swift stick to the shins or fall on an elbow proves that. As a roller hockey player, your gear is often less bulky and heavy than your ice counterpart. That means lighter weight plastics, nylon, foam and other synthetics that will keep your bones safe while keeping your skin cool. Molded polyethylene shin and knee caps, perforated foam and nylon mesh outer shell, urethane foam lining and Velcro strap closure.