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Originally Posted by Silverhorse 228
Running plays on a fiber board is like playing football on a frozen lake...the players "slide" about 5 yards after the board is turned off! It is fun however to see players slide...it adds a new dimension to the game...when to shut the board off...but after a while it just gets plain irratating. Metal boards do not have this problem...
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I have played on plenty of Hot Rodded metal boards out here and they have the "slide" you mention after the switch is cut off, it's nothing to do with the fiber board over metal though. I enjoy both, but I have fiberboard 308s and those babies cook! I never have complaints about my field from opponents.
One of the best fields I have ever played on PERIOD, belongs to Vince Peatros and it is metal with a field cover, you better be quick on the switch or else your QB is toast, he has that glide after the switch, just about every board has that to some extent. There are some physics that come into play with the glide as well.