All About Figure Skating Blades
You will learn from here the importance of taking care of the blades. The figure skating blades has its own characteristic depending on your needs or level of skating. The blades will help you to achieve your goals but practice and determination will lead you to one of the best figure skaters. Figure skating blades has three parts, the toe plate , heel plate and the part that actually works on ice sometimes it is called as the runner . The blade of figure skating are made from long strips of steel which has carbon content depending on the quality of particular skate blade. The figure skating blade once assembled is chrome plated. The chrome is removed in the edges by grinding, this is line you seat each side of the blade edge, that hardened steel and not chrome is at the working surface. Figure skating blades are made in ¼” inch lengths . The blades also have different widths, radii, configuration of the rocker and toe pick. These has a major effect in figure skating blad
