Ticomaya wrote:gungasnake wrote:Closest I've ever come to killing myself in anything resembling sports has always involved a pair of figure skates.... check this out:
I'm struggling with the imagery, GS.
Don't get me wrong, I can do pretty much anything on hockey skates, but the figure skates are just crazy; they have barbed hooks on the front so you have to pick them up dead flat and level, i.e. the first time you ever try to come to one of your toes on the things you go head over heels.
Kids should DEFINITELY learn to skate on hockey skates and not figure skates. If nothing else it teaches you to skate properly (i.e. off the edges of the skates) rather than trying to pull yourself along with the barged hooks which is what you see most beginning skaters doing.