Ice Skating Guide: Equipment, Maintenance, and Ankle Strength

Strengthening your ankles is essential for stability and preventing pain while ice skating. Learn how to manually sharpen your blades, remove rust, and properly break in new figure skates for a comfortable and high-performance fit on the ice.

Winterlude skaters on Rideau Canal skate-way, Ottawa Canada.

Fun Facts for Kids About Ice Skating

If ice-skating is the latest sporting interest in your household, plenty of history, technical terms, world records and sporting facts can entertain your budding skater when she's not on the ice.

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