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Nordic skates...
Hi everyone,
Has anyone had much experience with "clip-on" nordic skates in a rink situation? Pondering the merits of buying some to fit my Salomon Pilot boots to use at the local rink. Kind regards, Chris |
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Chris,
I've used mine just once at a rink and wasn't too pleased with the performance, perhaps because the rink ice was very hard, and/or my blades were not sharp enough. For me they work better on a lake or pond. -Jim Chris Cole wrote: Hi everyone, Has anyone had much experience with "clip-on" nordic skates in a rink situation? Pondering the merits of buying some to fit my Salomon Pilot boots to use at the local rink. Kind regards, Chris |
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Chris Cole wrote:
Hi everyone, Has anyone had much experience with "clip-on" nordic skates in a rink situation? Pondering the merits of buying some to fit my Salomon Pilot boots to use at the local rink. Kind regards, Chris I toyed with the idea of Nordic skates for years. Then I realized that what I really wanted were hockey skates. (There's very little natural ice in San Jose, CA) Santa brought me a pair of Grafs last year and I love'em. Bob |
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I should add that I really LOVE my Nordic Blades. The ability to
drive, walk, and/or ski to the ice with your boots on and then just clip into the blades is awsome! I've been thinking of getting the inline version (i.e. a very short roller ski) also for rail/foot commuting in Boston. Jim Chris Cole wrote: Hi everyone, Has anyone had much experience with "clip-on" nordic skates in a rink situation? Pondering the merits of buying some to fit my Salomon Pilot boots to use at the local rink. Kind regards, Chris |
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On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, Chris Cole wrote:
Hi everyone, Has anyone had much experience with "clip-on" nordic skates in a rink situation? Pondering the merits of buying some to fit my Salomon Pilot boots to use at the local rink. Kind regards, Chris For several years, in late fall, I would use my nordic skates at the local hockey rink. They sort of work .. but it's like paddling a canoe in a small swimming pool. But the last 2 winters I haven't used them in a rink and my skating technique on "real" ice seems to have improved! Maybe, in the rink, I was trying to copy the technique of hockey skaters, which is quite different. Hmm, now I'm thinking about next ice season! This past week I saw 2 new lakes that I must "get done" on skates. -- David Dermott , Wolfville Ridge, Nova Scotia, Canada Nordic skating: http://www.dermott.ca/ski/skating.html |
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On Jul 3, 3:18 am, Chris Cole wrote:
Hi everyone, Has anyone had much experience with "clip-on" nordic skates in a rink situation? Pondering the merits of buying some to fit my Salomon Pilot boots to use at the local rink. Kind regards, Chris Work nicely, but you need a lot of ice to get a good stride going. Also, they are so fast it's like trying to roller siski with inline skates: not very specific, Be careful "crossing over". I tripped the first time because they're so much longer than hockey skates. Good balance work. Randy |
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On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, Chris Cole wrote:
Hi everyone, Has anyone had much experience with "clip-on" nordic skates in a rink situation? Pondering the merits of buying some to fit my Salomon Pilot boots to use at the local rink. A few more thoughts. It should be possible (with practice) to skate fast with nordic skates in a rink. After all, short-track speed skaters go pretty fast and can do "cross-overs" with long blades. Their blades are a bit shorter and often off-set to favour turning to the left- (races are done counter-clockwise) So it would best to get the shortest blades possible ~40 cm and with a blunt tip. I can't do "cross-overs" on any type of skates, anywhere. On another note, here are some pictures of Australians on nordic skates (but not in a rink!) and skis: http://www.icetrek.com/index.php?id=688 (Wade and Fred's Antarctic adventure) Some of Wade and Fred's photos also on the Nordic Skating site: http://www.nordicskating.org/antarctica/index.html -- David Dermott , Wolfville Ridge, Nova Scotia, Canada email: WWW pages: http://www.dermott.ca/index.html |
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Chris Cole wrote:
Has anyone had much experience with "clip-on" nordic skates in a rink situation? Pondering the merits of buying some to fit my Salomon Pilot boots to use at the local rink. It works but is not ideal. Especially, if the local rink management forbids using poles. Furthermore, rink ice is usually even and hard, while long-distance skates are best for natural, uneven and often softer ice cover. For some more generic information on long-distance skating you might take a look at the page on the last line of my signature. All the best, Timo -- Prof. Timo Salmi ftp & http://garbo.uwasa.fi/ archives 193.166.120.5 Department of Accounting and Business Finance ; University of Vaasa http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/ ; FIN-65101, Finland Longdistance skating page http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/info/timonice.html |
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