McJesus

-Hollow: 7/8” -About Me: I’ve played hockey for 20 years and coached for 10 years. I used to consider myself a powerful skater, but recently started to work on my smoothness due to getting older/weaker/tired ☹. With that, I feel like I can offer some good points to consider depending on what type of skater you are. If you are a powerful, choppy, hardworking player, then you’ll most like profiles that cater and supports those characteristics. If you are a smooth, tension free, and efficient skater, then I would think you would prefer a certain set of profiles. Picture yourself in a game chasing down a puck. Do you grit your teeth and bear down, tighten up, get set, and PUSH off as hard as possible? Or do you stay loose, stay relaxed, and use the whole blade to get going? Do you push in linear 45-degree strides, or do you land on a edge and let the skate collapse out? I wouldn’t advocate either being a power skater or efficient skater. But I think your style is really going to dictate your preference. Mobility, Stability, Speed, and Acceleration are going to be perceived differently IMO depending on your style. My ratings will be based on my personal preferences and effort to be smoother. I’ll note in my reviews how I think the profiles would feel to different types of skaters. -Mobility: 2 -Stability: 5 -Speed: 5 -Acceleration: 3 -Review: This one has to be a power skaters dream. I felt like the rink was not big enough! Crossovers felt great; glide was awesome. I can see this as being great for a forward flying in off the rush. In a crossover or straight-line situation, there was really no downsides. Inside the defensive zone, I didn’t notice to much of an issue unless I gave to much of a gap. So great for offense coming in with speed and ok for playing d inside your zone. Thing with this profile is that I felt like as long as you could dictate the play with speed, you were going to have a good time. However, if you didn’t have momentum, it was really hard to manipulate the heel of the blade. Coming off a board battle, you couldn’t accelerate without setting up for it almost. It was also hard to defend the rush. I felt like I couldn’t control my gap and the line I did take was a commitment. Even if you don’t cross your feet going backwards, you were still easy to beat. I was either to fast or to slow. The transition from inside edge to inside edge just felt slow. I could see why certain forwards and better defensemen would love this profile.

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-Hollow: 7/8” -About Me: I’ve played hockey for 20+ years and coached for 10 years. I used to consider myself a powerful skater, but recently started to work on my smoothness due to getting older/weaker/tired ☹. With that, I feel like I can offer some good points to consider depending on what type of skater you are. If you are a powerful, choppy, hardworking player, then you’ll most like profiles that cater and supports those characteristics. If you are a smooth, tension free, and efficient skater, then I would think you would prefer a certain set of profiles. Picture yourself in a game chasing down a puck. Do you grit your teeth and bear down, tighten up, get set, and PUSH off as hard as possible? Or do you stay loose, stay relaxed, and use the whole blade to get going? Do you push in linear 45-degree strides, or do you land on a edge and let the skate collapse out? I wouldn’t advocate either being a power skater or efficient skater. But I think your style is really going to dictate your preference. Mobility, Stability, Speed, and Acceleration are going to be perceived differently IMO depending on your style. My ratings will be based on my personal preferences and effort to be smoother. I’ll note in my reviews how I think the profiles would feel to different types of skaters. -Mobility: 1 -Stability: 1 -Speed: 2 -Acceleration: 2 -Review: This profile felt awful. I skated on it for an hour and hated every minute of it. My feet were throbbing from trying to manipulate the blade. I couldn’t get wide, anytime I tried to turn I just felt the blade pulling me in the same direction. I was so limited in whatever arc my skate was going. I couldn’t tilt it over and change the path of the skate enough. Acceleration was hampered by having to push out with a skate that felt like it didn’t want to come off the ice. I didn’t feel stable, because I felt like my feet were stuck in cement and my posture was not adjusting to it. Obviously, never felt like I was going fast. I don’t understand how anyone can skate in a longer profile. I guess the glide felt ok, but my calves and core were so beat up just trying to keep my upper body and lower body in sync. Stops and starts: it’s faster to just hit the boards, get up, and then get going again in that direction. If you’re a power skater you may have better luck, but I just felt stuck -Profiles tested: 12’ -Profiles to test: Quad 2 Zuperior M 10-20’

12' -Hollow: 7/8” -About Me: I’ve played hockey for 20 years and coached for 10 years. I used to consider myself a powerful skater, but recently started to work on my smoothness due to getting older/weaker/tired ☹. With that, I feel like I can offer some good points to consider depending on what type of skater you are. If you are a powerful, choppy, hardworking player, then you’ll most like profiles that cater and supports those characteristics. If you are a smooth, tension free, and efficient skater, then I would think you would prefer a certain set of profiles. Picture yourself in a game chasing down a puck. Do you grit your teeth and bear down, tighten up, get set, and PUSH off as hard as possible? Or do you stay loose, stay relaxed, and use the whole blade to get going? Do you push in linear 45-degree strides, or do you land on a edge and let the skate collapse out? I wouldn’t advocate either being a power skater or efficient skater. But I think your style is really going to dictate your preference. Mobility, Stability, Speed, and Acceleration are going to be perceived differently IMO depending on your style. My ratings will be based on my personal preferences and effort to be smoother. I’ll note in my reviews how I think the profiles would feel to different types of skaters. -Mobility: 3 -Stability: 3 -Speed: 3 -Acceleration: 3 -Review: This was the first profile I tested. I don’t think anything really stood out to me too much. Mobility wise I could turn while having pressure on the heel or toe. I felt very comfortable accelerating out of 10-2 position or on an outside edge. I didn’t feel the toe catching or slipping on crossovers. Top end speed was decent, but I wasn’t any faster. Stability wise when skating or even along the boards, you just had to widen your base and stay moving. I didn’t feel like I would get bumped or knocked off the puck etc. This isn’t to crazy from a stock profile a pair of skates. I think I would prefer maybe an 11’ to this in many ways. Profiles tested: none Profiles to test: 14’ Quad 2 10-20’ Zuperior M

Where do the different radii get placed on the blade for the Quad, Zuperior, and Dual profiles? The only illustration is with the quad where you essentially have a heel, full arch (base radius), Ball of foot, and toe roughly. Is that accurate? And how do the Zuperior and Dual space out those radii? For example, is the Detroit I mostly a 20ft up to the ball of the foot, or split right in the middle of the arch, or is it a mostly 10ft and the heel gets a 20ft? If I decided to get say a medium forward pitch to it as well, does that shorten the 20ft area or prevent me from settling on the 20ft when at speed? The pitch concept is also really throwing me off when it comes to multiple radii. I've had a 13ft single with a forward pitch, but how does the smaller front profile effect that idea? Would the Detroit I be a faster profile for crossovers and top end speed than the Quad 2 or Quad S (non prosharp profile/unknown specs)