Does figure skating help?

[furlanitalia 1]

If you wonder if figure skating "edges" are relevant to skating in hockey skates...check out this video of former world champion figure skater Kurt Browning (he's the guy that landed the first quadruple jump in competitition) performing in hockey skates:

Browning clearly has great edge control but his stride looked like crap there lol. I'm gonna assume because of the shorter blades. Watching that though reminded me of this guy:

[n3ss 0]

yellow laces? what a bender.