So, I went out on my skates for the second time with my new skates on Friday and I noticed a few things. The first time I don't know if I was just distracted or something but I couldn't really hold my edges well. It probably had something to do with my skates being new and stiff, but also probably weight balancing and whatnot. Oh wait, maybe it was fear? Because I knew it was going to be hard and I didn't want to fall.
Now, on my second time I was paying a lot more attention. My weight distribution is probably still not always on the balls of my feet, which may be what throws me off sometime, but what I really noticed that on my left foot, shifting to my outside edge was hard than on my right.
Now, when I shift onto my left outside edge, it feels like I'm maybe leaning too much into it? Like, when I say it's "harder", what I mean is it's so ridiculously easy that it's hard to hold my inside edge with it accidentally shifting to it. So when I actually want to shift to it, it feels like I'm always about to fall off of it.
Here's a picture of my blades side by side, left to right:
To me it seems that the inside edge was ground lower than the outside edge. I understand that the edges are ground like this for a reason, but my right state's blade is the opposite. It's outside edge is the one that's ground higher, making the shift to it feel like an actual shift.
So I guess my question is, does this grind look standard? Or did my pro fun up? Mistakes happen, I just wanna know if I need them redone.
Now, on my second time I was paying a lot more attention. My weight distribution is probably still not always on the balls of my feet, which may be what throws me off sometime, but what I really noticed that on my left foot, shifting to my outside edge was hard than on my right.
Now, when I shift onto my left outside edge, it feels like I'm maybe leaning too much into it? Like, when I say it's "harder", what I mean is it's so ridiculously easy that it's hard to hold my inside edge with it accidentally shifting to it. So when I actually want to shift to it, it feels like I'm always about to fall off of it.
Here's a picture of my blades side by side, left to right:
To me it seems that the inside edge was ground lower than the outside edge. I understand that the edges are ground like this for a reason, but my right state's blade is the opposite. It's outside edge is the one that's ground higher, making the shift to it feel like an actual shift.
So I guess my question is, does this grind look standard? Or did my pro fun up? Mistakes happen, I just wanna know if I need them redone.