The Ice Man By Mark E. Melone Most people rarely give much thought too, or understand how the ice they skate on is made. In this first, in a series of articles, on ice installation I will explain and illustrate for you how the entire process is done. This is how to take a bare rink floor like the one below, and construct it into the floor that everyone sees as this First, remove all dirt and debris from the floor surface. Th
"Here comes Evan!” Believe it or not, it’s been three years since Naperville’s own Evan Lysacek won the men’s figure skating Olympic gold medal in Vancouver. (Really?) It’s now only a year away from the 2014 winter games in Sochi, Russia, and it appears that Evan has set his sights on trying to become the first since American legend Dick Button (1948 and 1952) to win back to back gold medals! Evan hasn’t competed since his gold medal win in 2010. He toured with “Stars on
Click the Banner below for more information including screenshots of the Application and description. Want more Ice Skating Features at the palm of your hand? Download the Ask. Mr. Edge Android Mobile Application! Introducing the Skating World's first functionally practical Ice Skating Mobile Application. The Ask Mr. Edge app is designed for ice skaters, skating parents, coaches, and ice skating enthusiasts of all ages. Don't be fooled by other useless and over priced ap
Why Do Skater’s Need SkateScience Blade Technology? When skaters fall, get a low technical score, fail a test or have a bad performance, the blame of loss or failure most often falls upon the athlete. However, in many cases equipment design is the real cause of failure. For example: triple and quad jumps use blazingly fast rotation that creates enormous landing torque forces. Sooooooo! Where should the blame lie? With the
Each month Ask Mr. Edge publishes an article for "SKATING" magazine sponsored by U.S. Figure Skating. Visit the website for full details and to submit your questions. I will be posting both current and past articles here in our blog. Got a skating question, Ask Mr. Edge! Click on the logo for more information: May 2013 Article Summertime Care for Your Skates Maybe Spring will have finally sprung by the time everyone reads this article. No matter, summer is on the way and it’s t
MySkatingMall.com is a skater’s one stop shopping web site to purchase both new and gently used skate wear, blades, boots, and accessories. Just like a good brick-and-mortar mall, MySkatingMall.com has everything that a skating shopper would want. One of our goals is to have the best search capability of any skating website. Skaters are able to search by multiple different categories like outfit theme, size, color, etc. in order to find what they are looking for. If there is nothing avail
We did it! Ask Mr. Edge has joined the Twitter community. This is a great addition to both our website, blog and especially for our store, "Geppetto's Skate Shop". Twitter is by far the best way to stay in contact with Mr. Edge. We will be using Twitter quite often for updates such as store hours, Mr. Edges location, and much mor
You can now view the Ask Mr. Edge blog in mobile view through your Smartphone. We are offering both Iphone and EVO support. Please be sure "Mobile View" is checked to "ON", located in the browser settings on your phone, and you will easily be able to view everything and anything our blog has to offer. Now you can stay up to date on our Ice Skating news, even when your away from home. Enjoy!
Hello and Happy New Year to all Ask Mr. Edge reader's. With the New Year at hand we will be doing our best to bring you the most up to date content concerning our sport and some off topic subjects as well. I know there are many questions regarding figure skating equipment such as preventive maintenance, injuries, and how to avoid them, equipment care, and much more. We are also looking forward to posting you, (the readers'), stories, articles, successes and achievments with re
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