If I have professional figure skates, do I have to get them sharpened specially?

Is there a difference between normal skate sharpening and Pro Figure Skate sharpening?

If I have professional figure skates, do I have to get them sharpened specially?
Yup


If you go to a figure skating shop that sharpens skates they'll know how to do it better than a normal sports store that normally does recreational and hockey skates. They will make it the right sharpness (not too sharp that you can't stop at all and not too little that you can't even feel it) but it also depends if you like really sharp or dull skates to skate on. Plus if you get it some where where the people there aren't used to the different blade types in figure skating they could totally mess up your skates. And whatever you do don't get them sharpened in those sharpening machines or with those handheld stick sharpeners they'll also mess up your skates.
Reply:if you are intending to use your skates for figure skating properly you deffinately need to get them sharpened by a profesional, its too risky other wise, your blades are the most important thing! if you just have skates for fun it doesnt matter so much,


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Reply:YES.





You must take them to a skate shop where there is a tech who is trained to sharpen them correctly. If they aren't sharpened the right way, you won't have the edges needed for jumps or spins.


Ask your coach to recommend a skate shop.
Reply:Well, a lot of places call their sharpening a Pro sharpening. However, as long as they are a ice skate sharpener, it will be fine. Don't take your skates to someone specialized in hockey skates. The last time I did that, he gave me a huge rocker like hockey skates and I had to get new blades. In addition, Pro Shops more often than don't have a bad reputation. Most of the time when I, or my friends, get our blades sharpened at the Pro Shop, it isn't very good. Also, like any place you'll go, make sure this person has a good reputation. You don't want to go to somebody who has a reputation for ruining skates. Ask your friends at the rink and your coach to recommend somebody.
Reply:You can get them sharpened anywhere, but just make sure that there is a trained person there to sharpen them because they can wreck your skates if you don't have them sharpened right; in fact the rink that I skate at doesn't have anybody trained to sharpen skates so I drive 45 minutes to get them sharpened by somebody who knows how.
Reply:No, you don't. I have professional skates, and you should just ask for a regular cut, at a skate sharpening place, like at your arena, or a place like Play It Again Sports, or Sportco. I wouldn't recommend going to a Pro Figure skate shop, because they can sharpen too much, then you have to skate extra hours weekends to dull them, so you can stop!
Reply:Technically you can get them sharpened anywhere, but I recommend going to a place a bit nicer and more professional. Places like Play It Again Sports sometimes mess up and sharpen figure skates like hockey skates. Try asking a coach at your rink for nearby places that are good.



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