Technical Information?

The edge of the blade is the most important part of the blade, this is the surface that touches the ice. A bad edge or a curve that is not correct will effect the skating.

Grinding the blades flat

The Paramount blades are precession ground one each side perfectly flat.
To a tolerance on .0002 inches. Having this accuracy insures a perfect edge along the length of the blade. If the blade is not perfectly flat it will effect the edge quality where some areas will grab the ice better than other areas. None of the Wilson or MK blades do this important step and the blade can vary in thickness as much as .0100. inches.

Machining the hollow

Paramount is the only company that machines the hollow into the runner using computer controlled equipment, with an accuracy of .002 difference between the blade. , Wilson MK puts the hollow in by hand and the tolerance can vary as much as .125 between on blade to another .

Leveling the boot

The boot must be leveled to the blade. If it is not leveled and the boot is warped this can twist or torch the blade. If the blade is bent it will affect the edge where one side or area will grab and another area will slip.

There are 2 methods of leveling the blade on the boot.

The role of Inertia in skating

There are various parties within figure skating that believe that Inertia is a key component to the physics of skating. The belief is that a skater with a higher inertia will stay in the air longer and allow more time for the skater to perform a jump element. The analogy is presented with a bowling ball. A heavier bowling ball will travel farther than a light one. And this is correct assuming both bowling balls have the same initial velocity. However this analogy doesn’t work when it is realized that the assumption about both bowling balls having the same velocity isn’t valid. In bowling and figure skating a heavy and light object will take different amounts of effort and time to get to the same velocity. A figure skater and a bowler only have a fixed amount of muscle energy available to accelerate the bowling ball or figure skates. In both scenarios the athlete only has a certain amount of time to accelerate the bowling ball or figure skate up to the maximum velocity possible to develop the Inertia required.

So while Inertia is an important element of the physics of figure skating it is not the critical component of the physics. Velocity is far more critical than Inertia. Weight by itself will not have any Inertia with Velocity, and having the most amount of force acting on the lightest object maximi;ll;zes Velocity.

Figure skating coaches stress having quick muscles not big muscles. Why, because quickness is the key component to figure skating. SO, why slow your quickness down with unnecessary extra weight?

Brochure	Lift Angle	MK vs Wilson