Wheel Recommendation?

[Foreign Object]

Anybody have a recommendation on a wheel that provides grip and a lot of speed? Also hi, lol.

[Father Time]

Radar flat out and Radar flaoutrageous seem to work really well on sport court tiles. Especially when paired with Bones bearings.
At least this is what most folks in our league lean towards.

[Big Booty Trudy]

I've been trying to decide what wheels I should get. We practice on a grippy wood rink floor. Sometimes we practice with a team that has a concrete floor, but I haven't yet come across a sport court. Do you mind trying to explain to me what type of flooring this is to help me make a decision as to what type of wheels I should invest in?

[Lizbeth Von Lush]

I really like my flat outs. They usually give me a good bit of grip, but I can still go pretty fast. I tried the black fugitives (with ornage pushers) out.. and they seemed to make me feel like I'm skating through sludge. I am going to try a combo of the black or grey fugis and my flat outs for our next bout to see how they do. I'm hoping this combo will give me the grip I need with the fugis, but wont hamper my speed since I will only be using them as pushers.

[Grand Poobah]

If you're going to ask a question about recommended wheels, you really ought to be describing the surface you'd be using them on. There's different wheels that work better in different situations.

[Foreign Object]

Well I assumed coated indoor rink was a given. Heard good things about Answer Centuri for outdoor, though. Pretty reasonably priced, too.

[Grand Poobah]

Not always a given. There's Sport Court/Skate Court, wooden rinks, polished concrete, non-polished concrete, there's derby-suitable outdoor rinks (which you don't generally use outdoor wheels for), there's people on the site that skate on masonite banked tracks. I can think of two well known leagues that had venues with linoleum (VERY slippery).

[Foreign Object]

Crap that's awesome. Learn something new everyday, I guess.

[Justass of the Piece]

Our home rink has a very sticky wood floor. At home I use blue witch doctors but most of the girls skate on orange cannibals because they're so fast. I bought a set of flat outs to play on at Fall Brawl (mildly slippery polished concrete) but felt like they were too slow and making me work way too hard. After a couple of different combinations I ended up using flat outs for grip on the inside and the witch doctors on the outside. Minx from Fort Wayne suggested this to me and it worked fabulously. Is your coated floor slippery or grippy? My suggestion is to try the witch doctors or cannibals... if you need extra grip then you can always add a pusher wheel on the inside to keep you from sliding out too far in the turns. Good luck!

[Grand Poobah]

Grippier on the inside is what the smart skaters do (when needed).

When you scout the opposition with their recent opponents, inquire about the surface for sure.

[Grand Poobah]

Oh hey, while this seems perfectly obvious to most of us, it may not be to newer skaters.

Inside doesn't mean towards the center of your body. It means towards the center of the track.

In other words, you put the grippier "pusher" wheels on the left side of each skate, and the less grippy wheels on the right side of each skate.

[Mandy B]

This actually helped ME out too, thank you for being so specific!!

[Celia Graves]

We skate on polished concrete when we bout. I love my black devil rays. I have been skating on the same set for a long time, and they are in incredibly good shape. It was totally worth the investment IMO.