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7 G. m7 ^0 p" T- ~# w. N" m5 yStay Sharp Out There!7 U: O$ g; L- h4 G+ p& |; U
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. e, `0 R: w: G7 i8 M/ j. HSo you are in line at the hockey section of the local sports store waiting to get your kids skates sharpened and ahead of you is "Super Enthusiastic Hockey Dad Guy", you know the guy with more muscle tone for a gentleman his age, the almost made it but hurt my knee guy who spends his time now running a buisness from him cell phone wearing matching minor hockey jackets with his son? Anyway, you can't help but overhear him talking to the slightly moustached teenager sharpening skates behind the counter. "Yeah, he's got a big game tonight, ice in that barn is cold and hard so we are going to have to go with a 3/8ths and shift the radius back toward the heel a abit.... blah blah blah". Other than than sinking feeling in your stomache that you get when the pro ahead of you is ordering a grande caramal frappa lappa cappa-cino at Starbucks, you can't help but notice that the boy is only 8!!! Nonetheless, when you get up there and Superdad walks away rubbing little Billy's hair, the best thing you can shamefully blurt out is "I like 'em real sharp".
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The unfortunate truth about minor hockey: Although people make choosing a new stick a "personal and intimate outing", but many of us are too quick put the fate of our skates in the hands of a complete stranger with a grindstone! Some of us may feel fortunate to find a guy who "does a really good job", but what does "good job" really mean? Can Marv at the community center be doing a better job of making them "real sharp"? What type of questions should we ask about the condition of our skates? What do we look for when theyare handed back to us to assess the job done? What types of sharpening technologies are out there and how do they differ? and What the hec does 3/8 radius mean?# V: f& P0 c# ?
4 _- I6 y; t& a/ j. ZI know I was supposed to do a skill analysis this week, but I was motivated to do this peace on skate sharpening by an experience I had with one of my defencemen on my minor hockey team. All year I have been watching this kid struggle to master skills, or fall down unintentionally, and while I focused on technique and motivation, I truly overlooked his skates.* {. w( q' r; j9 O( l8 s a, _
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