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ice-skating, olympics - March 08, 2021

Kickin’ it with K.O. Ft Michael Marinaro & Kirsten Moore-Towers

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....

Joining The Jackson Family Team…

We are exceptionally excited to add our newest member of our Jackson Family Team: Kaetlyn Osmond.

Kaetlyn will be partnering with us as a Jackson Ultima Skate Brand Ambassador. She will join us through various means at events, rinks and clubs, performing Social Media activities, interviews and promotions, showcasing the entire Jackson Ultima offering, and assisting in product testing and...

Jackson Flex Boots

If you have been following the skating trends, younger skaters are doing more advanced elements and demanding more from their equipment. But being an advanced skater doesn’t mean you need the most expensive equipment; you need what your body can control.

Introducing Flex. Jackson’s Flex boot is exactly as it sounds, with a softer stiffness rating of 35, it allows skaters to have increased flexion...

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