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FIGURE SKATERS: DO NOT SHARPEN YOUR SKATES HERE!
I’m a figure skater (competitive at the Bronze level, skating skills at the Silver level), and I was in need of a skate sharpening, so we went to this place. The people were nice, and there were dogs which was a plus, but the next time I skated, something felt off. My spins weren’t getting as many revolutions as usual and I kept falling out of spins I would normally do just fine (I’m on jumping restrictions because of injury so I can’t comment on jumps). My overall skating felt a little off, too, but I chalked it up to just not being used to the sharpness. Then I skated again the next day, and my skating still felt weird. After I got off, I looked at my blades, and they seemed flatter than they used to be. The rocker seemed to have disappeared or have been moved back, and the end of my blade was way too curved. I asked two of the coaches at the rink to look at them, and they agreed my blades didn’t look right. My mother went to see our normal skate sharpening guy, Jan the Skate Man, and she came home and told me to put the blades with my pond skates and that they were ruined. She had to spend $350 on new blades because of a bad sharpening.
This place is probably fine for hockey players, but if you’re a figure skater, do not go there. Better to have dull blades than have to spend hundreds of dollars on new ones because your normal ones are ruined.