FAQ

Is there any benefit to analyzing your riding? 

Absolutely, taking help from someone who can see what you as a player need to change to optimize your riding style is a really good investment. 

Would say that it is one of the most important based on the fact that you always ride on your rails regardless of training or match, a few changes or many changes. 

Your rails are always with you and must perform with you as a player every time. 

Trying to find the same result by testing many different profiles, and with different solutions can take several seasons and often costs several pairs of blades with many grindings before finding the right one. 

 When you know what benefits riding on the right profiles can bring, then it's a pure investment that your body and development will thank you for.

What is affected by which blades I choose? 

What is affected by which blades you choose is what result you want. If you can handle a result that is often mixed between each sanding, then you can go for a cheaper rail. 

If, on the other hand, you want to feel secure that the result feels as similar as it can be every time, then you often have to go up in price range. 

The more expensive blades are harder and often keep a sharp edge longer than the cheaper ones. If you get damage in a cheaper splint, it often takes more work to remove it. 

So it's a question of how much you want to spend on your blades, you have to start from your own budget. A rule of thumb is; a cheaper blades often gives a slightly mixed result after sharpening, while a more expensive one often retains that real edge that players want longer.

Do profiles matter to a player? 

- Yes, it can have a really big meaning for many, regardless of what level you play at. 

If you are younger, you may not have the same pressure to perform as an elite player. However, it has a big impact on the player's ability to maneuver as optimally as possible on the ice. 

I want to go as fast as possible and be very mobile, is that possible? 

The answer is both and to that. The profiles consist of one or more compound radii, these radii look a little different, which means that they do the job in different ways on the rail. If you want to go as fast as possible but at the same time be very mobile, or vice versa. Then you can have problems, namely a moving surface is short and a surface that gives high speed is long. These then become each other's opposites, on the other hand, you can say that, for example, I want to be as mobile as possible and, based on that, also gain as much speed as possible. 

That combination is possible to achieve with several different profiles, exactly which one is determined by the player's riding style and skills.

Should you sharpen the same bowl for everyone in a team where the players are young? 

- No, you shouldn't do that. The cup grinding affects the knees, hips and groin, and there it looks different for many players. So try to optimize as much as possible for each player. 

It takes time to do an individual grind but the players get so much more out of it.

Does it matter how I sharpen blades? 

There is only one answer to this question, YES. 

How you sharpen a rail is directly decisive for how it is ridden. A poorly sharpened rail can do so much damage to the player you are grinding. Take the time to hone right, it brings so many benefits to the player. 

Make a grinding schedule in Excel where you enter the player's name, make of skate, skate size, profile, bowl and how to grind. Not all players like freshly sharpened, this can be remedied by the way you sharpen. 

Can I ruin a blades by how I brown? Yes, you can, you need to adjust the sharpening according to the type of rail you use. For example, a black rail has a coating on the surface and it does not feel good to be sharpened by a diamond edge. 

You can say that if a blade gets scratched on the surface, you are using the wrong type of sharpening for that blade. Cheaper blades can be sharpened a little harder without the surface layer playing such a big role. On these blades, the edge often becomes folded up when grinding and you have to work it out, to remove this you often have to use a sharpening tool that removes more material.

How do I remove a damage on a rail? 

I often suggest that you try not to use the clove brow which is considered a savior in times of need, there are a few different variations of that type depending on where you look. 

Such a sharpener often removes much more than is necessary on the edge, and if you use it on one blade, you should run it on both to get the same feel. What is important to think about and that must be resolved in the event of an injury is; If you've got a jacket in the blade, then it's not the jacket itself that you have to remove as many people think. 

It is the material that has spread out that has to be removed, if you drag your finger along the edge, you can probably feel something sticking out. That material must be removed. 

This means that you don't need to draw a whetstone after the entire blade, you instead need to concentrate on the place of the damage itself. I often suggest using the Prosharp Polish Hone sharpener, this is also great for repairing damage with as well. 

Pull it on the wound until you feel that the protruding part is gone, then it's done. 

You can sand off the jacket itself after training or the match, the jacket is often not something the player feels.