Custom Skate Sharpening & Contouring and now the Flat Bottom V
Totally new way to have your skates sharpened!
Unlike the conventional sharpening that puts a hollow between two edges, the FBV is a totally new way to sharpen and shape an ice skate blade. With a conventional sharpening, you have to choose between grip/bite and speed. With the FBV, you get both maximum bite (when you need it) but also maximum glide (when you need it).
The Flat Bottom V has virtually zero getting use to time. In a matter of minutes, you'll adapt easy to this setting and soon be reaping the rewards of super speed and endurance, yet at the same time have all the grip you need for hard turns and stops.
Who benefits from contouring and custom sharpening?
In two words, all skaters. With very few exceptions, ice skate blades, as delivered from the factory are not ready for the ice, as it is economically impossible for any ice skate manufacturer to provide a matched pair of accurately profiled, balanced, and sharpened blades to meet an individual skater's preference. Instead most manufacturers provide an excess of blade stock and leave the actual shaping to the skate shop. A major contouring is theoretically required only once in the life of an ice skate blade. In practice, the more a skate is subject to poor sharpening, the more likely it is to require further contouring. It is a fact that there are skate sharpener "pretenders" who can, and do remove a contour during one skate sharpening session.
In addition to quality skate sharpening, having your hockey players skates “contoured” is the single most important thing you can have done to you child’s skates. Contouring is blade shaping, not sharpening. Skate contouring is a precision system of applying a radius along the length of the blade and a lie based on the individual specifications of each skater. Accurate positioning of the balance point of the skater to the blade provides maximum stability and maneuverability. Skates direct from the factory are inconsistent, and in a majority of cases have the incorrect radius and lie for the individual skater.
Once contoured, and with the addition of the " Flat Bottom" sharpen your hockey player will have improvements in:
