DG Tips: Skate Sharpening

Just a few tips to help you get sharp skates. If you have any questions we didn't address in the video, feel free to comment below or send us a tweet @dgskating
Tips not in the video:
1) When sharping straight back and forth, remember to slowly move your stone to both side to prevent the blades from digging into one spot on the stone over time.
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[@danypetit6967]

Hi, do you start with the red or the blue side?

[@dgskating]

"I don't use different stones for different blades per say. I use different stones at different stages. The carbide bit helps rip off lots of burr when rockering, rough stones during the sharpening stage, and finer stones during the polishing stage. I also have a lot of stones because I like to try everything on the market." Reece

[@PD19954]

ah, what were you using? or which duo stone grits do you use?

[@PD19954]

was that dimond stone red (fine) and blue(course)?
was the other diamond stone for polishing? (green)?

[@dgskating]

The diamond stones have different levels of grit. Black is the most coarse, then blue, red, green. The green stone will provide a pretty good polish, but something like a marble stone would be a better polish.

[@mark23197]

hi I have a doubt I just bought some new ice Speed Skates (long track) viking red bar but it's not sharpened, so if I don't sharp the blades I wont be able to skates?

[@xxtoxxicgamerzxx6945]

Mark Diaz i do short track so from my experience (ive skated for 2 years) you dont have to sharpen but you won't get any grip where if you sharpen them you will get more grip

[@dthammify]

Any basic sharpening technique differences between ST and LT???

[@OlympischbriesjeNadaAverage]

4:03 carbide bit? I can find one online ...

[@user-ch1fb6kn5k]

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[@cbeaudoin2001]

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[@JeffSmith-eq3kc]

This is confusing to me as someone who sharpens knives. I don't see how there is an angle created. If I sharpened a knife this way, I'd be eliminating the edge entirely. Is there no edge? No two angles coming to an edge?

[@Gamepaj]

Well the cross section of the skate is rectangular, so actually the bottom is completely flat ao that the skates glide with no friction and the skater uses the 2 90 degree angles created on the side of the skate to get grip and turn

[@MaxMax-xc4cs]

「目標を指定してお金が必要」、

[@user-ch1fb6kn5k]

house

[@dgskating]

Nope everything is the same. The goal is just to get a nice square edge.