Correct sharpening of skates

In recent years, figure skating has become increasingly popular. It must be said that modern youth also likes to spend leisure time on a skating rink, where a noisy company can fun skating on ice on skates. Often you can meet and fans to visit the ice rink in your spare time alone, when you can stay with your thoughts alone, rolling on snow-white ice.

Those who decided that for this pastime they need personal skates, they know that sooner or later they will need sharpening of skates. Properly executed sharpening will allow those who decided to stand on the ice, achieve significant progress in skating.

Sharpening skates is not an easy job, which requires good theoretical knowledge About the whole process of skiing.

A thorough approach to the process of sharpening skates will affect the faster slip on the ice, will allow better balancing and controlling your body. On skates that are well sharpened, you can perform fast rotations, and also accelerate faster, in the end, you can feel more confident on the ice and get more pleasure from the very process of skating.

Sharpening of skates should be carried out with full knowledge of the matter. There are typical mistakes that amateurs allow. One of them is the unequal outer and inner side of the blade, which is sharpened by handicraft methods. It is also possible to uneven steel, which will lead to the fact that the horse will be badly balanced. With an unqualified sharpening, you can overheat the blade, and this is fraught with the loss of its durability. It is more difficult to control your movements on ice if the blade is sharpened with too small or, conversely, too large a contour radius.

The most common mistake hockey players (skaters) is that they ride on a fairly worn out blades. Unfortunately, this affects the speed of skiing. The fact is that the new blades have the factory radius of the contour, which depends on the model and size of the skates.

The existing opinion that the factory radius of skates is suitable for everyone. This is not true, because every player or skater must try and form a profile that is most suitable for him. For example, beginners skate slowly enough. Over time, these skills acquire a more perfect form. It is often possible to see how an inexperienced skater is spending his energy on staying on skates, rather than letting his energy flow into the development of professional skills. Only with time, each player can choose the right profile radius, providing a more dense contact of the blade with ice.

To date, professional sharpening of skates is moving towards a European style, the main goal of which is to take care to reduce the frictional force for more efficient skating.

Experts say that a higher speed can be developed on skates, whose radius is combined with the size of the groove. Different style of riding corresponds to a different sharpening.

So, for example, the style of "butterfly", when you need to move from side to side, requires a good grasp with the ice, this will allow you to quickly move up and down. In this case, sharpening skates has its own peculiarity: the horse is sharpened very sharply around the heel and toe, that is, it has a large groove. In this case, a smaller groove is in the middle of the ridge, which provides a sliding motion.

Sharpening hockey skates has a number of its features and requires professional skills. At present, with many large ice rinks and ice palaces, there are points of sharpening, where this laborious process can be entrusted to a specialist.