Patch Perseverance
I skated the Chandler adult FS for patch practice today. Nice ice. 9 skaters (eep). I just got my patch blades sharpened over the weekend, the first sharpening for them since Dec. 2015 (!). Well, I was off the ice for a good long while and I don't get that much patch practice.
I spent about the first half of the session warming up with edges and then working on FO8/FI8. Yuck. Not getting around on the R foot, and it didn't improve much.
After that I spent about 20 minutes working on waltz-8. It took me about that long just to get my turns back! I also spent some time just working on the step forward from BO edge. Bleah.
I spent the last 5 or so minutes working on BO8. Push is still lacking and I'm lacking some control on the second half of the circle. Yikes.
When I was wiping my blades down after the session I looked closely at my blades and noticed that the front of my R blade seems to not be straight -- it slopes from outside to inside slightly. Don't know if this is new or old or what (I suspect it's been there a while). Also not clear if it's actually significant. I'll show it to Lynne on Thursday and see what she thinks. Worst case I might have to send them to Jim to be fixed :-(.
I spent about the first half of the session warming up with edges and then working on FO8/FI8. Yuck. Not getting around on the R foot, and it didn't improve much.
After that I spent about 20 minutes working on waltz-8. It took me about that long just to get my turns back! I also spent some time just working on the step forward from BO edge. Bleah.
I spent the last 5 or so minutes working on BO8. Push is still lacking and I'm lacking some control on the second half of the circle. Yikes.
When I was wiping my blades down after the session I looked closely at my blades and noticed that the front of my R blade seems to not be straight -- it slopes from outside to inside slightly. Don't know if this is new or old or what (I suspect it's been there a while). Also not clear if it's actually significant. I'll show it to Lynne on Thursday and see what she thinks. Worst case I might have to send them to Jim to be fixed :-(.
posted by Gordon @ 3:09 PM
2 Comments:
At 11:50 AM ,
George A said...
It's not unusual for blades to develop a little warpage with use. My skate tech checks my blades with a steel straight edge during each sharpening. He has a small press, mounted to the end of his workbench, that he uses to work the warped blade back into shape.
At 2:01 PM ,
Gordon said...
thanks George. It's not out of true back to front, it's just that the outside edge is a little higher than the inside edge - but only at the very front of the blade. I had Lynne look at it today and I think it's not really a problem.
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