Frågor & Svar

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 blades 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 rail I choose? 

What is affected by which rail 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 blades. 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 radius, these radius 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 hollow for everyone in a team where the players are young? 

- No, you shouldn't do that. The hollow 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 a blade? 

There is only one answer to this question, YES. 

How you sharpen a blade is directly decisive for how it is ridden. 

A poorly sharpened blade 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 rail 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 blades 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 rail 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.

Hur tar jag bort en skada på en skena?

Jag föreslår ofta att man ska försöka att inte använda klykbrynet som anses som en räddare i nöden, finns lite olika varianter av den typen beroende på vart man letar. Ett sådant bryne tar ofta bort mycket mer än vad som är nödvändigt på kanten, och använder du det på en skena bör du köra det på båda för att få samma känsla.

Det som är viktigt att tänka på och som man måste lösa vid en skada är;

Om du har fått ett jack i skenan, då är det inte själva jacket du måste få bort vilket många tror. Det är materialet som har vikt ut sig som måste bort, drar man fingret efter kanten så kan man troligen känna att något sticker ut. Det materialet måste bort.

Det innebär att man inte behöver dra ett bryne efter hela skenan, man behöver istället koncentrera sig till stället för själva skadan.

Jag föreslår ofta att man ska använda Prosharp Polish Hone bryne, detta är dessutom utmärkt till att reparera skador med också. Dra det på skadan tills du känner att det som är utstickande är borta, då är det klart. Själva jacket kan du slipa bort efter träningen eller matchen, jacket är ofta inget som spelaren känner av.