I tried to teach a lesson in one of the new soft shell skates and had to stop in
mid lesson and change skates because there was no support, I couldn't execute
basic moves. That's why I'm back in my E-pros. With the price of oil what it
is and the cost to produce a hard shell boot vs. soft shell, eliminating hard
shells was a no brainier. Let the skaters suffer... I suggest hockey skates
with a brake to people that absolutely can't wear the soft shells.
Walter Johnson

Gordon Sanders <gordon.sanders@...> wrote:
I find this entire discussion interesting and want to share my
thoughts.

Many of us have been involved in the industry almost 20 years. And all of us
have tried most of the skates that have been made during that time. Why dou you
think htat the most popular skates among us are...lightning (20 yrs old), aeros
(15 yrs old) and e series (10 yrs old)?

Could it be that the manufacturers have quit having SKATERS design and test the
skates ...or.. Are they making sktes only based on price point? Imade a comment
to kalinda just the other day about needing thr brake to "start" much higher off
the grouund the way we used to be able to do w the abt. Instead it starts too
low ans you can even adjust it lower.
This sint practical from a skater or instructor mindset.

Thoughts?

Gordon sanders....

-----Original Message-----
From: Amy Krut <amykrut@...>
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 6:32 PM
To: inline-instruction@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [inline-instruction] Looking for Aeroblades, Coolblades and/ liners

Ah, my favorites are the old lightning TRS's! I hoarded them when I
knew they were being discontinued!!

Amy

On May 1, 2008, at 7:21 PM, Stephen Fisher wrote:

> Definitely Walter. No conflict with my size 9s!
>
> Stephen
>

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