There Are Three Types Of Ice Skate Blade

Ice Skate Bladecan be roughly divided into three categories:

Speed skating skates, figure skates, ice hockey skates

Speed skating skates:

It can be divided into large runway speed skating skates and short runway speed skating skates. The large runway speed skating skates have a long blade body, a small blade arc, a large contact area between the blade and the ice surface, and a large turning radius. They are suitable for long-distance skating on large runways. Short runway speed skating skates have a short blade body, large blade arc, relatively small contact area with the ice surface, and small turning radius. They are suitable for skating on short runways (500m-1000m). The thickness of the blade body is 1.4±0.1mm, and the hardness is HRC56. ~60.

Figure skates:

Figure skating movements are difficult and require high stability, so the waist of the shoe is hard and high to protect the ankle. The blade is wide and has a groove in the middle. The radian of the blade body is relatively large, so that it is easy to turn in a small radius for rotation and footwork, etc. . There are teeth on the front end of the ice blade, so as to facilitate the braking of taking off and kicking the ice, falling and rotating.

According to the action on the ice and the shape of the blade and the blade body, it can be divided into free figure skates, prescribed figure figure skates, and dance figure skates on ice. Since figure skating sports are mostly jumping and spinning steps, the difference from other skates is that the front blade teeth allow the bottom teeth to touch the ice surface when the blade is tilted forward by 10 degrees. The blade is thicker, among which the general ice skates are not less than 3.5mm, and the advanced ice skates are not less than 3.8mm, the hardness is HRC56-60, the blade body is short, and the blade arc is large.

Hockey skates:

Ice hockey is very confrontational and requires good protection measures. Therefore, the toe of the ice hockey shoes is very hard, the waist of the shoe is high, the upper is very thick, and the body of the ice hockey blade is very short and has a large arc to facilitate the skater on the ice. It can move flexibly on the surface and change the sliding direction.

Ice hockey knives are divided into goalkeeper ice hockey knives and player ice hockey knives. Since players often need to stop and turn suddenly during sports, the blade body needs to be higher in strength. The thickness of the blade is 2.8±0.1mm and it is arc-shaped. 80 mm.