Since my sewing has been completely focused on skating costumes for others recently, I have very little to show, I thought I would continue my Skate Equipment review series so that I at least have *something* to talk about. My plan is to do a weekly skate-part review post until I have covered a majority … More Skating Equipment: Let’s Talk Bearings
I did a fair bit of talking about skate equipment this past year as I documented my transition from Atlas Plates to Roll Line Plates (and something of a transition back on my loop skates). I thought it might be fun to do something of a series on skating equipment and the options available. Since … More Skating Equipment: Let’s Talk Wheels
After reading Roller Skating for Gold, I was inspired to try to find videos of many of the legends mentioned in the book. I have been doing a series of posts on the various dances used on the international level, but I have been quite lax in posting other great skating videos to my blog. … More Artistic Roller Skating – An Overview
I was wasting time on YouTube and found this video about making costumes for ballroom dance. If you can get past the cheesy dancing in the intro, you can see some fabulous gowns being made. Enjoy!
Ok, so there were a lot of proposed changes up for the 2011-2012 USARS skating season. While the new official rule book isn’t out yet, and, indeed, even the official announcement of the dances and figures haven’t been posted, I was able to find the requirements posted to the North East regional website (opens to … More Newsflash – 2011-2012 Skating Dances and Figures Announced (Sort Of)
Ok, so this may be the last skating update for a while. I wore the yellow rubber upper/blue urethane lower cushions for a week, but by the end decided I didn’t really like it all that well, at least not for the big figures. Whereas the all urethane felt fairly stable on the large figures, … More Fancy Italian Footwear, Part V
Ok, so I switched out the figure cushions for the yellow rubber top/blue urethane bottom. Rubber/urethane combo. This was actually quite an interesting experiment. It gave the skates a feeling of stability a bit more like my old skates, but still had the responsiveness of the new skates. It almost felt like the yellow rubber … More Fancy Italian Footwear, Part IV
Ok, so I am really starting to like my new equipment. It still takes me a while to get settled into them (they don’t feel quite natural yet), but I think overall in the lessons today they performed pretty well. After two more sessions on the figure skates, they are starting to feel a bit … More Fancy Italian Footwear, Part III
Ok, so I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to practice on my new skates the day after they were mounted. This is good, because it gives me a week of adjustment period before I have any more lessons, so I can hopefully get them somewhat stable, if not actually completely correct, in terms … More Fancy Italian Footwear, Part II
So, I have been talking a lot about skating, what with the dance video posts, and the new updates about regionals and nationals, but I never actually got around to posting the skating costumes I made for this year. My original pattern review was located in this post, so you can see some of my … More Skating Costumes – More Kwik Sew 2601
Doctor T Designs 