Question for the QUAD profile skaters

[Radien55 8]

Did you ever find a profile that's better than the Quad?  Did you switch to something else: Successfully or eventually came back to the Quad?

Personally I can't skate in Zuperior they feel like skis. Transitions are terrible and I skate backwards a lot. Too long in the front and not enough blade contact in the rear half. I catch edges all the time. I have never tried Ellipse so I can't comment on them, but an ellipse is just a squished circle, so it seems like they would feel long?..

The Quad (2) is great! I have been using it for the last 2 years and I love the pitch and agility in the front, with a lot of blade on the ice in the rear half. Thanks to the pitch (-20mm pivot point) you have a lot of steel under your heels to work with and you can really lean into the heels without ever tipping backwards. Move your weight just slightly forward and you can transition so easily, they are very responsive and don't require big movements to achieve what you want, so they don't tire you out like bigger profiles do.

The only downside is that it has transition points all over the blade. When you are on a transition point, you don't have a contact patch with the ice, so the skate wobbles backwards/forwards until it finds the next radii section. This can be unsettling. It is especially noticeable when you jump out the door onto the ice on one skate, you can feel the blade hesitate and wobble over a transition point instead of smoothly gliding along the ice. I have not found a profile that gives me everything the Quad does, so I just live with it, but I am curious if there is profile that solves that without feeling long?