tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44160471573415137562024-10-24T21:39:47.592-05:00Want to improve your skating? Lower your times? Increase your top speed? Upgrade your competitive results? Basically, want to skate faster?Skating Coachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04932613354255636323noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4416047157341513756.post-30140842279419492102008-03-02T00:29:00.004-06:002008-03-02T00:50:15.384-06:00

A short tip for today, that I'm sure to come back to and elaborate on later.Good corner-skating technique is a very effective weapon in your Faster Skating arsenal if you can get the hang of it. There are some key points to cover when teaching good corner-skating technique... but I'm not going to cover them today.Today, something you can take out the door with you right now if you are headed out

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4- & 3-wheel skatesSo, picking up from where I left off in Part 1, the widespread use of larger-diameter wheels on the 4-wheel platform meant frame lengths (particularly for junior and smaller skaters) could be reduced to more manageable sizes without any loss in rolling performance. By 2007, at World Championship-level a wide range of 4-wheel frame lengths from 11.9- to 13.2-inches were

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110mm wheels - legalized by the CIC from 2008. There was always going to be, and there has been, a lot of skaters jumping on 4x110mm skates as soon as that announcement came through.From 76- to 80mmWhen speed skating was done on 76mm wheels and 80mm wheels were available, some tried them and found situation-specific benefits from them, some did not. Some of the World's best time-trialists at

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Strength & Conditioning is not just called 'weightlifting' or 'weight training' because strength & conditioning is more than that. Strength & conditioning encompasses the entire development of the athlete and what is needed to improve physical performance. This can include strength training, plyometrics, speed and agility training, endurance and core stability. Strength training is only one part

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Don't forget spare parts. You wouldn't forget to bring your skates to a competition. You wouldn't forget to bring the wheels you plan to skate on (well, most wouldn't). You wouldn't forget your uniform, or your helmet...And yet...Almost incomprehensibly, there will always be a skater or two, at any meet, who is getting around with one old wheel on their skates amongst a set of new ones. Why?

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Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, and expecting a different result - Albert Einstein said that. Einstein was a German-born American Physicist, and that, one of his more quotable quotes, like his theories, was right on the button.But you've arrived at what purports to be a skating website? A faster skating one at that (because let's face it, faster is almost always better) - so what

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