Hey everyone,
I would love to hear what ROH you skate on and which blades you have.
(assuming you skate on a traditionally sharpened blade and not some fancy variety which doesn't have a radius anymore)
Maybe also which country you live in, if you don't mind sharing that info, and what your current level of skating is.
Maybe some would also like to share their thoughts and experiences on how the radius of your blade influences your skating, if at all (apart from the obvious, i.e. a deeper/smaller radius having more grip and being better suited for hard ice).
I sometimes chat with my sharpener and he mentioned how there's differences between countries on what radius is considered convention and what skaters are used to because they grow up with it and different 'philosophies' regarding the depth of the radius you skate on. How some feel that skating on a more shallow radius will teach you better skating skills because you don't rely so much on the bite of your blades and things like that.
He also mentioned that even with the same radius, it depends on how the sharpener finishes off the edges, so a seemingly shallow radius can still have more of a bite than the radius sharpened by someone else (obviously this also depends on the quality of the material of a blade). Not sure this is true, though?
I'm very sensitive to changes in my blades or the ice I skate on, and I envy people who are not bothered by that and don't feel any difference or quickly adapt to any circumstances (and I skate at multiple rinks which all have different ice, especially one of them which is an outside rink, so you'd think I'd be used to that ).
So yeah, I'm just curious to hear other people's thoughts on that and would also love to know what radius elite skaters skate on, if anyone has any info on that.
I would love to hear what ROH you skate on and which blades you have.
(assuming you skate on a traditionally sharpened blade and not some fancy variety which doesn't have a radius anymore)
Maybe also which country you live in, if you don't mind sharing that info, and what your current level of skating is.
Maybe some would also like to share their thoughts and experiences on how the radius of your blade influences your skating, if at all (apart from the obvious, i.e. a deeper/smaller radius having more grip and being better suited for hard ice).
I sometimes chat with my sharpener and he mentioned how there's differences between countries on what radius is considered convention and what skaters are used to because they grow up with it and different 'philosophies' regarding the depth of the radius you skate on. How some feel that skating on a more shallow radius will teach you better skating skills because you don't rely so much on the bite of your blades and things like that.
He also mentioned that even with the same radius, it depends on how the sharpener finishes off the edges, so a seemingly shallow radius can still have more of a bite than the radius sharpened by someone else (obviously this also depends on the quality of the material of a blade). Not sure this is true, though?
I'm very sensitive to changes in my blades or the ice I skate on, and I envy people who are not bothered by that and don't feel any difference or quickly adapt to any circumstances (and I skate at multiple rinks which all have different ice, especially one of them which is an outside rink, so you'd think I'd be used to that ).
So yeah, I'm just curious to hear other people's thoughts on that and would also love to know what radius elite skaters skate on, if anyone has any info on that.