Ric_Flair

Please weigh in on.... Quad XS vs. Quad 0.5 vs. Ellipse XS... on a 254 blade length. Feel free to freelance and mention other profiles if you wish, your experiences etc. Thanks folks.

I’m relatively new to profiling; what’s the 35/65… does it have any big “pitch”? (Sounds like it would.) I don’t like to be pitched forward, but I do play forward. My best skating days (Jr. hockey, 20+ years ago) was on a Bauer Supreme 7000 when I had no idea of profiling (so whatever came stock then I guess), and used a 3/8 inch hollow. Can you kindly explain a bit about the 35/65… and would you how you compare ellipse profiles to quads? Many thanks for your input pal!

Ah ok, good to know. Will try the quad/power profile that comes stock (is it fair to assume it’s a quad XS on the stock 254 Ultrasonics?) I will have couple other sets of blades as well. If I wanted to try other quad sizes, is it better to start from “upper size” and move down, in the event I don’t like it and want to resize the quad, for example? ie. start with quad 1, if I don’t like I can move down to 0 etc… is that the best way to go to not chew away too much blade if/when re-profiling? You’ve tried ellipse? Sizes? Like, dis-like? Compare to quads? Thanks man, much appreciated. Oh… and the pitch, you mean CL moved back 20mm so that you’re “pitched” forward in stance? Don’t think I like the forward pitch feel, remember my old 704s and couldn’t figure out why I didn’t like them… days before all this analysis etc

Ah OK. And how do you like that compared to... whatever quad you have tried/used? Am liking the quad (it's on a 263 runner, so I will assume with 95% certainty that it's quad 0); Am moving down to a smaller skate and hence runner shortly (254). What do you suggest I use to "keep the same feeling" when skating? Thanks maa.

How's it thus far?

Do you have any experience of switching down a size in blade length?

Yea, I noticed that. But figured I'd fish anyway.

Have you skated/ played hockey for a long time?

But afetr a bit, did it become natural again?

This is what I think and hope to experience when I switch. And I\ve been skating/playing hockey a long time. Lets see, fingers crossed.

Which size is it that your skates use, 246 or 254... it can't be both?