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Short Track Ice Speed Skating Equipment: Boots,...

Boots, blades, sharpening kit and the protection short track rules require, plus what transfers from inline and what does not.

Training for Your First Inline Speed Skating Race

Three principles that beat any secret programme: technique before volume, consistency before heroics, and building load gradually, plus race week essentials.

Skate Bearings Explained: ABEC Ratings, Sizes, ...

What ABEC ratings really measure, 608 versus micro bearings, steel versus ceramic, and the maintenance habit that outperforms any upgrade.

Bont Skate Sizing: How to Measure Your Feet and...

How to measure your feet for Bont boots, plus the full size chart with standard, narrow, wide and double wide fits.

Do I Need Custom Boots? How Bont Customs Are Ma...

What a custom speed skate is, how Bont builds one from a mould of your foot, and how to decide whether full custom is worth it for you.

Semi Custom Bont Boots: The Fit Fix Most Skater...

A semi-custom boot fixes fit problems a standard boot can't, without the price of full custom: wide feet, skinny ankles, mismatched feet and more.