Sharpening Skates
Sharpening your skates
- Sharpen a new pair of skates before you skate on them.
- Use a good skate-sharpening company (ask a professional coach for
  advice) and remember, just because they can sharpen hockey skates
  good doesn't mean they can sharpen figure skates good, and vice-versa.
- Re-sharpen skates after approximately 20-30 hours of skating
  (depending on usage and care).
- In figure skates the bottom pick should NOT be removed. The pick is
  part of the design of figure skates and is essential to proper balance.
- Inspect your skates after they are sharpened to ensure you have a
  quality edge.

What to look for in a proper sharpening
1. There are two edges on your blade, with a proper sharpening these
    edges should be equal.
2. Figure skates should have a flatter edge than hockey skates, a figure
    skating blade should not be rounded off at the end.
3. Figure skates should have all the original toe picks. the bottom one
    should be pointing downward, it should just barely touch when the
    blade is stood up on a flat surface.

To check to see if your blades need to be sharpened, scrap your nail on each side of
the blade, if no shavings come off, your blades need to be sharpened.