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How Profiling Affects Performance
On top of baking your skate, molding your skate, and doing everything you can to make your skate comfortable, skate blade profiling can greatly help your skating ability. There’s lots of options out there, enough to make your head spin. You can have a forward lean, reverse lean, centered lean, what degree you want the…
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Footbed/Insole Options to Reduce Foot Pain for Hockey Players
In the last video in this series, we looked at how baking your skate can improve the comfort, and really make your skate feel like “second skin”. If that hasn’t completely worked for you, because your skates are on the lower end and don’t have mold-able material, or something went wrong in the baking process,…
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Testing a new Easy Backyard Rink Kit
I’ve built a few backyard rinks in my time. One thing remains the same, when it’s time to build you need tools, you need a friend and you need at least a full afternoon to get everything laid out. The build typically involves planning, measuring, getting all your supplies in order and then carefully following…
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Old Hockey Player Forgets About Scoring Stats
By Eric Miller “A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.” Wayne Gretzky Some scoring statistics are best forgotten. You’re not a hockey player until you’ve scored on yourself a saying goes, quoted by an anonymous player too embarrassed to admit doing it. In hockey we score on opponents—not on one’s…