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Skating Tips and Articles
Fitness Skating: The term “Fitness
Skating” is defined as skating for the specific purpose of improving
ones physical and mental fitness. Aerobic Benefits: You can achieve
a superior cardiovascular workout while fitness skating. Weight
Loss: Fitness skating provides for an unbelievable weight loss
opportunity. Endurance: Fitness skating provides a superior method
for building an individual’s endurance. Muscle Toning: Fitness
skating provides an excellent method for muscle toning. Mental
Benefits: Fitness skating can do wonders when it comes to increasing
mental fitness by giving your mind a break from life’s daily
stressors. Visit our Fitness section for more
information.
Roller Skating: We offer advice and
few practical roller skating tips to help you get started roller
skating. We look at the best times to go to the roller skating rink,
discuss safety issues, and talk about some of the intangible things
that will help you like ‘patience’ and a ‘positive attitude’. You’ll
also learn about the risks of roller skating (while skating both
indoors and outdoors) and how to mitigate those risks. We encourage
all skaters to wear skate protective gear as appropriate;
specifically knee pads, elbow pads, wrist pads, and a skate helmet.
Find the closest roller skate rink in your area -
Roller Skating
Rinks and visit Roller Skating for more information.
Inline Skating: Inline skating offers
the same outstanding aerobic benefits of running or jogging, without
the pounding that goes along with running and jogging. We’ll answer
the following inline skating frequently asked questions: What
equipment do I need to inline skate? Are there any health benefits
gained from inline skating? What are the major muscles worked when
inline skating? What are the risks of inline skating? What is inline
speed skating? What is aggressive inline skating? What is the
difference between inline skating and rollerblading? Visit
Inline
Skating for the answers to these questions and for more inline
skating information.
Ice Skating: We provide you with ice
skating information and ice skating tips, and connect you with an
excellent selection of quality ice skates, and ice skating
equipment. Ice Skates: We discuss the three of the most common types
of ice skates; figure ice skates, hockey ice skates and speed ice
skates. How to Ice Skate: We offer lots of useful information that
will help you learn how to ice skate. Ice Skating Tips: We will
start with what we consider to be two of the most important ice
skating tips; learning how to fall, and how to stop. Health Benefits
of Ice Skating: Ice skating can help you lose weight, increase
endurance, tone muscles, enhance mental fitness, and can provide you
with a superior cardiovascular workout. We'll help you find ice
skating rink or ice arenas in your area; visit Ice Skating Rinks.
Visit Ice Skating for more ice and
Figure Skating information and
equipment.
Hockey Equipment: We offer excellent
hockey equipment information about: hockey sticks, hockey goalie
equipment, hockey skates, hockey helmets, hockey gloves, inline
hockey equipment; basically any piece of hockey equipment you'd need
to get into an ice or inline hockey rink! Some examples: Hockey
Skates: We will discuss what you should look for when purchasing a
pair of hockey skates, and point out some of the most common
purchasing mistakes. Hockey skate maintenance: Hockey skate
maintenance requires some attention in order to extend the life of
your hockey skates. Hockey Sticks: You will learn what hockey stick
is best for you, the advantages of putting tape on a hockey stick
blade, and how to determine the proper length of a hockey stick.
Visit our Hockey Equipment page for much more hockey equipment
information and tips.
Skateboarding: We provide the latest
in skateboarding information and equipment.
Skateboard Decks: The
skate “board” is known as the skateboard deck. The skateboard deck
is the foundation of the skateboard, and arguably the most important
piece of the skateboard complete. Skateboard Wheels: Just as
skateboard decks are arguably the most important piece of
skateboarding equipment, a strong argument can also be made for
skateboard wheels. The size: The skateboard wheel size has a direct
correlation on the skateboard’s speed. For more skateboarding
information and an excellent selection of skateboarding equipment,
please visit Skateboarding.
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