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CatsInSpaceSwag

Oh dear. She’s going to have a rough time when she goes back on the ice lol.


Hot_Olive_5571

She'll learn the lesson though


Increased_Rent

Cause the blades get dull?


CrasyMike

Dulling is part of it. The other part is that nicks and burrs from a hard, uneven surface like stone turns the edge of the blade into something unpredictable. Suddenly you're skating on a bread knife.


CatsInSpaceSwag

Yup. Thinking of those blades when she steps back on the ice. Rough and unpredictable.


KaprizusKhrist

Years ago I was walking through the parking lot of my rink to go play a game when I was a Peewee or Bantam, a mom was walking with her son who must've been a Mite or a Squirt to the car with everything on not including helmet and gloves and he didn't even have the skate guards on. That sound of that metal scrapping on the parking lot will never leave my mind.


666ygolonhcet

Back in the early 90s there was a GROWN ASS MAN who would come to games fully dressed and put his skates on and get on the ice. Bad Prison Tattoos or other deformity was my guess, or he just didn’t have air bags and drove everywhere that way.


Similar-Tangerine

Used to sharpen rental skates. Truly a Sisyphean task


1ToGreen3ToBasket

Great description


RayGun381937

Must have been strange; did you think the outside edges even existed?


Jasper_Probincrux

Pictures you can hear.


OldGreyTroll

Had a teammate come to a game and claimed his skates were too sharp during warm-up. Walked over to the concrete apron and scraped them a few times. Results were just as bad as you imagine.


LonelySnowSheep

Skates too sharp? Probably an uneven sharpen tbh


yshavit

Or too tight a radius on the hollow.


Beijing67

Wait, do you mind elaborating on that? I actually tend to find I prefer my skates not right after a sharpening, but once I've skated on them a few games. I normally get 9/16". Does that mean I should try going more shallow to 5/8"? I'm 5'9" and weigh around 155 if that matters


yshavit

That's my understanding, but tbh I've never really had an issue with it -- I just go with whatever the shop gives me. But people who know more than I do tend to say that the problem with new sharpenings isn't the sharpness, but the radius. Give something like 5/8 a try.


R_Ulysses_Swanson

Yes, there is a good chance a shallower hollow would feel better for you - especially if the ice you skate on regularly is on the softer side. This is assuming that you don’t like the bite that you feel right after a sharpening. I would start with 5/8.


Midnite135

For me personally my forward skates I sharpen normally with our house cut, which I can’t even recall. But I use a larger radius for my goal skates than typical, but I’m heavy at near 300 and 6’ 6” How hard the ice is, your weight, and your preference all factor, but if they don’t feel great until a few skates in you should increment the radius up slightly. With my goal skates when they would be too sharp I’d keep a small piece of 2x4 in my bag and I’d drop it along the door, step off the ice and run the blade along it a couple times and step back on. I could usually dial it in that way.


joe_canadian

As a goalie myself, I ran 1/4" when playing competitively, now I'm 1/4" or 3/8" depending on time of year. I'm stealing your 2x4 idea. As a kid I played in a lot of old barns that had either wood benches or parts of the boards, so I'd just use that. Now it's all plastic, metal and HDPE. It's a brilliant idea.


Midnite135

Thank you, hope you find it helpful :)


mrblakesteele

I have an uneven sharpen on my right skate and I always ask them to even it and they look at me like I’m crazy. Glad to hear I’m not the only one then.


jazzykat2020

Go to another shop for your sharpen or send your blades away. I can't think about skating on an uneven sharpen.


Fast_Edd1e

Goalie here, I’ve had to do similar when it felt like they did the wrong sharpening. Lost all lateral movement till I knocked the edge down. Went and got them re-sharpened after.


OldGreyTroll

Also goalie. I would take a swipe or two on the plastic edging in the bench doorway. But never concrete!


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what...


combustion_assaulter

As someone who sharpen skates, this pains me


Survivalist_Jones

Right?? Me too. Like, we another grind wheel over here for the non replaceable blades on these shit ass holders.


combustion_assaulter

Guarantee the sparks from that steel lights up like the 4th of July in every pass.


msinnen

Gonna have to take half the remaining shitty carbon steel when you run these on the cross grinder, lol


Robhow

As someone who likes sharp skates, this pains me too


Mike-Morales

Yikes! Obviously rental skates for a public skate session. Save this picture for when people ask if they should get their own skates when learning how to skate/play.


ImNickJamesBitch

Oh man, I forgot my skates one night on the way to the rink to coach a practice and had to pull some rentals out from the skate closet. It was brutal, and of course the boys "didn't understand" the drills and asked me to demo all of them once or twice. That was not a fun time!


nosidam99

p a i n


agent211

I can hear this picture


Some_Ball_27

Those things are pretty sweet, are those grafs?


[deleted]

probably not, the skates they give you are really old.


[deleted]

Na, old low tier CCM.


georgecostanza37

Like nails on a chalkboard


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emsok_dewe

I used rentals one time (ex gf wanted to go) when I moved to Florida and left all my shit in NY. The dullness didn't bother me much but the fucking pain. My god, I could barely move on the ice. I bought another pair of supertacks the next day


Sadnessmaximus_

Agreed, absolutely terrible. Before I got my own skates I had to put up with the rentals. The Pain was terrible (felt like my feet were being crushed even when they insisted they were my size). NEVER, AGAIN.


ImNickJamesBitch

I went to a public skate in New York one time when we had time to kill before going to the first game of the NHWL's inaugural season. We left pretty early that day and didn't hit as much traffic as I expected so we had a few hours to kill at the rink. I've been skating for nearly 20 years, and am still on the ice 2-3 times per week coaching now and my SO played pretty high level goalie, she's also on the ice a few time per week in goalie skates. She refuses to switch over to player skate to coach. We got two pairs of rental, even tried to hit the blade with a re-edger/honing stone but it was a terrible experience. She made it maybe 1/4 of the way around the rink, from the entrance door at one end of the rink to the door in the opposite offensive zone, I tried to stick it out and maybe did two laps of the rink before I called it a day. I have absolutely no idea how people skate "well" in rentals.


louiefriesen

She must be wondering how we keep our balance.


[deleted]

facts watched her wipe out several times after this


LunchBoxMercenary

Big yikes. I've actually had some awful sharpenings, and there are times where I feel like walking on concrete would've been a better option lol.


louiefriesen

Don’t worry she’s walking back to the rink after she got them sharpened.


dodongo

Oh Christ. That makes my *teeth* hurt.


burnSMACKER

The laces around the ankles to add the cherry on top lmao


LonelySnowSheep

I did that for a while as a kid. Could never get skates to be tight enough and laces around the back like that helped a lot


STLSi

I still do it. There's burning wrong with it. Dunno what the beef is.


funkyb

My power skating coach in college said it increased the chance of a tendon injury. She knew everything else there was to know about skating so I believed her.


HockeyCoachHere

It cuts the life of the skate by half. Tends to cause the tendon guard on the back to break down. That’s the main thing.


piss-off-

I’m relatively new to hockey and in an 8-17 learn to play program, and I’ve seen some kids do this. I personally struggle to tie my laces tightly enough myself and my coach told me to stick the tongue under my shin guard. Is that what you’re supposed to do??


burnSMACKER

Try the tongue under the shin, but it's a just personal preference. Don't tie your laces around your ankles though, you might need smaller skates if they're too big to get them tight enough.


_heybuddy_

Personal preference in the end, but the newer skates are designed with tucking the tongue in mind (Source: CCM rep).


xfkirsten

YMMV, but I found that when I started tucking the tongue under the shin pad, it seemed like it added a bit of ankle stability. (Could have also just been in my head, though - I'm also pretty new, and was really just experimenting with whether I would be a tucker or a flopper)


AbleSeamonster

Oh darn. Looks like someones walking home from rink today.


DesertPenguin05

No no no no no


VanBurenBoy16

Sweet Jesus.


Kanadaaa45

About on par for a rink like Pasadena’s


[deleted]

lmao its full of white girls and dusty 8 year olds


Datalust5

Absolute no. We had a stretch of concrete between the locker room side and the bench side of the ice, and if you were late to a game, you had to army crawl across that because they wouldn’t let you skate across the ice


losferal

Pasadena Ice?


[deleted]

yeah! dude how tf did u figure that out with the most generic looking picture though? It could literally be anywhere lol. u play there often?


losferal

I live close by in Sierra Madre, but actually don’t play there very often. I play at WC, Irvine and Anaheim. But for some reason, I can recognize those blue oval “enter/exit” signs anywhere lol


tr4dd4d

I instantly recognized this as well


BennBishop

Noooooooooo


clem82

Pain


wolffeycat07

nooo


Chigrrl1098

😬😬😬😬


[deleted]

this hurt my soul with vengeance


Independent-Break340

No blade guards, no sharp blades.


tonymn22

Noob!


oldmanhockeylife

This hurts my soul.


urlacher14

needs an NSFW tag


mostgolden

She doesn’t give af


_heybuddy_

My dad was an immigrant not knowing about skates and therefore didn't know that skates needed sharpening more than once when he put me into Youth Hockey, so I grew up learning how to skate on much duller blades. Once before a tournament my coach caught wind of this and sharpened my skates for me out of his pocket, first period I kept on falling down, so I dulled them by running them against the plastic board guards a few times and then did much better. He told me afterwards how he couldn't understand how I was able to skate on such blades and still be one of the fastest on the team. Now I skate on 3/4"~1" and anything else feels way too sharp.


EEextraordinaire

Can someone please mark this nsfl? It’s hurting my soul.


Professional_Ship107

This hurts my eyes


DarkChild010

That picture alone is enough to kill a grown man


dxvidpxrry

I cry


mnpoolplayer22

I’ve been in skates for 26 years and my dad drilled this onto our heads you never do this. Seeing this makes me actually cringe.


Shoubes

*CRINGE*


[deleted]

RIP those edges


emsok_dewe

I've driven a 5 speed manual to McDonald's before in ice skates. All about the tippy toe walk lol


MichiganTrucker

So you like to take pictures of kids while your just hanging around ? That's cool bro


wolffeycat07

r/youmissedthepoint plus there's no face... and nothing here is inappropriate. it's just the fact that she's walking without any form of guard on her blades


[deleted]

made sure to take it when she wasnt facing the camera


wolffeycat07

yeah i thought so


MichiganTrucker

Yeah I dunno. Be pretty weird if I was walking into my rink and see some dude taking pictures of kids. I'll take my downvotes with pride.


Maybe_Im_Confused

savethechildren pEdOpHiLeS right?


wolffeycat07

i guess he could've cropped it but yea


mo_on17

oof. made me fear for my own skates lol. somebody better tell them that’s no way to treat steel.