I was thinking about this the other day…skateboards are flexible, bike tires are bouncy. Why aren’t there “performance” skates with shocks? Wouldn’t that be better for your knees?
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Skating is incredibly hard on the knees. Most hockey players have bad knees.
That said as others have pointed out. Needing to compress a spring to push off results in loss of power due to system compliance.
You have padding around your foot but you generally want a tight connection between foot and ground in power applications.
Basketball shoes are pretty cushioned because it’s a jumping game and not intense sprinting usually. Hockey on the other hand is super high speed and any loss of power would make it significantly slower.
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