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figure-skating, ice-skating, nathan-chen, new-ice-skates, olympics - August 25, 2020

Basics Of Skating: Breaking In Your New Figure Skates

Skaters get used to the particular way their skates feel and react to their movements. When getting new equipment, the time from 1st fitting to feeling like they were always your skates, is called the “break in.” You can shorten this time with a couple of steps and tricks.

First, be honest with yourself and your skate tech.

These are not your old skates and there is a reason your old skates are no...

Basics of Skating: Blade Care

Watch Where You Walk:

Congrats on your new skates! Ice skating is the most unique form of exercise. Protect your investment by watching where you walk. Hard surfaces like concrete, linoleum, etc. can dull your skate’s blades making it unsafe to skate. While most rinks have rubber mats leading from lobby to rink, you should purchase a pair of hard-plastic “guards” to walk around in your skates....

Jackson 5300 Elite Boots

Tradition meets innovation with the new Jackson 5300. The 5300 is the evolution from the top selling Elite 5200. We took feedback from many elite athletes, coaches and skate techs to create the new 5300 boots.

What’s different from 52. to 53? First is our path back to leather. Traditional leather maintains it’s shape the best and will mold and shape to your foot better...

Returning To Ice Skating

Are your local ice rinks opening up? Have questions on how your equipment has survived being off the ice for the last few months? Here is a quick and easy checklist to run through!

Jackson 6000 Tongue

Jackson’s 6K Tongue

While the evolution of boots the last 10 years has happened at an exponential pace, tongue design has been slow to move. That being said, we are here to show you change.

Tongues may seem insignificant, but they are an essential part of your skates. Keeping tongue consistency reduces premature breakdown. When a tongue overly compresses, it creates space in the skate which allows...

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