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I added the Forbes credit, based on a book listing inventions from the Maritimes (the name of which I can't find...). Trekphiler 04:31, 8 December 2005 (UTC)


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[edit] Speed Skate sharpening

"Speed skates, however, have a completely flat bottom. There is no hollow, only a squared off bottom with 2 edges. This improves glide time by not cutting into the ice." - I believe this is incorrect as most speed skates do infact have a slight groove. I haven't found a reference for this though. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Bobdoficus (talk • contribs) 08:21, 10 January 2007 (UTC).

Yes, speed skates and touring skates are sharpened with a flat cross section. Typically, the blades are sharpened with a flat whetstone. Here is one link : http://www.isn.net/speedskating/sharpen.html Ddermott 21:59, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Types of skate

We could do with a little more detail in the differences between the types of skates. And there's an image of "recreational skates", but the text doesn't even mention such things, let alone describe the characteristics that set it apart from the other kinds.

And it's been a long time since I last went skating, but none of them look like what I remember of the house skates at the rinks I've been to.... -- Smjg 16:35, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Confusing redirects

Some of the REDIRECTS to Ice_skate should be changed. There are:

  • Ice_skate The actual article.
  • Ice_skates Plural, second word not capitalized. This is a REDIRECT to the activity Ice_skating rather than the object Ice_skate which isn't logical.
  • Ice_Skates Plural, second word capitalized. This is a REDIRECT to Ice_skate, which is logical but very few people will capitalize the second word when searching.

I think changing the REDIRECT Ice_skates to point to Ice_skate rather than Ice_skating will work without breaking any internal links. I checked What links here and it seems all of the links refer to the object skate rather than the activity skating. --Ddermott 12:58, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

I changed Ice skates to redirect to Ice skate. Ice Skates we can just leave, because redirects are cheap. :) Thanks for figuring this out. --Fang Aili talk 17:18, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Inaccurate Description of Toe Pick Use

The article states:

The toe pick has a variety of uses, but is most commonly used for certain jumps in figure skating, such as the axel and toe loop jumps.

The problem here is that the "Axel" does not use the toe pick. The jumps that do are the flip, Lutz, toe-loop (as mentioned), and the toe-wally.

Matt 69.239.242.201 05:17, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] History of hockey skates

"[This will] really take the sport of hockey to another level," [ Wayne Gretzky ] said in a video statement shown during a press conference in Toronto on Tuesday. "Not since getting rid of the old blades that we wore in the '70s that Bobby Orr and Lanny McDonald wore — this is the first time we're going to see a significant change in the blade in probably 30 years." http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2007/10/16/thermablade-nhl.html

What is the change 30 years ago that Gretzky refers to? Is it the concave edge of the blade? Somegeek 20:27, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tube skates and bob skates

Tube skates and bob skates should be mentioned. Badagnani (talk) 02:01, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] skating on water

you actually are skating on water because your weight is put into the two thin blades and creates a film of water.

[edit] Hockey skate blade

The article says "All hockey skates (excepting goaltender's skates) are designed such that they will not cause injury to an opponent, and are fitted with safety blades". This is absolutely false. Several players have been injured by the blade of a teammate's or opponent's skate. It just recently happened in the NHL to the Panthers' Rich Zudnick, who got his neck seriously cut buy his teammate's skate blade. I'm removing this sentence, unless someone can find a definitive source that says this is true.