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I stumbled on a video of the British guy who does hockey tutorial I think it was called. He did a comparison between the sparx sharpener and the expensive automatic home sharpening machine. My impression was both did equally good jobs. The sparks sharpener had a short wheel life and the wheels are more money . I can't remember the average amount of sharpening per wheel exactly I think it was 40 for the sparx and 200 for the more expensive brand. I think the sparx machine is going to have failures when it gets used beyond what it's designed to do is be a family sharpener. That's no fault of the company. It may create warranty repair or replacement because the machine was used for a team or commercial use. They may have to make the machine more rugged and increase pricing to survive

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I'm in the Albany N.Y. area and teach power skating and skills and off ice training. You have to public skate ever chance you get . Take power skating. And work on flexibility, agility, strength, do squats start with a 100 twice a day in a month 200 twice a day , another month 300 twice a day. Calf raises , vertical leaps, push ups, pull ups, work on your core muscles. Create a routine. Make it fun .

Do you love the game? If yes sit down with the coach and (1) ask him or her what you need to work on . (2) then ask to practice with the team. And put the work in on and off the ice ; always in all ways.

Have at it . If it works for you ; use it until it doesn't.

I'm not a fan of automatic sharpeners .there is alot of plastic in the machine. Skate sharpening is easy to learn. I can get you a professional quality sharpener for $ 1850 with travel case ,edge checker, honing stone,took kit . It weighs 65 pounds in the case . The thing to do is have your close hockey friends go in on it . 8 friends go in on it and it pays for itself fast . And when you sharpen your own it only takes a couple of passes to sharpen them . I use the machine as a professional SSM2

The VH looks like a fantastic skate . I wish I could afford them now. Going to try for February .

Follow threw point the toe of the stick at your target..

Mark I teach power skating and train players . If your self and your son wanted to come to the Albany N.Y. area for a week we can get a lot accomplished in a week or two . While no on the ice you can enjoy the surrounding areas beautiful lakes . A week or two of fun hard work will change your skating like you wouldn't believe..

They are good machines.

What machine do you have?

Are you sharpening your own skates? If so . When your skate is in the holder . Lightly kiss the wheel on the toe and the heal. A) the marks should look the same. B) a centered skate will leave a rectangular mark . If it's off the mark will become a trapezoid . If so the wide part is hitting the wheel first. Wide part on top the blade has to be risen the opposite lowered. Double check me here for I extremely dyslexic and often have things correct in my mind and say opposite. . Blade checker if you're paying to have your skates sharpened 1) take a sharpy and run it on the blade bottom. If the grind is off it will be clear . 2) a dime works as good as any blade checker . I do professional sharpening and blade profiling. I use The SSM2 sharpener. I used the machine for awhile then I loved the machine so much I became a Rep for sales and service of the brand. The North American distributor has taken me on to cover sales and service. The machine is built and engineered in Sweden. I really love the machine. The price point is very worth the investment for a hockey families..more importantly you control the quality.