Do you subscribe to a particular style of skating? If so, far along were you into your skate journey when you decided what your style would be? I’ve been skating for about a year and I’m still focused on really locking in my basics and trying to develop a flow and I realized… I haven’t even really investigated skating styles. So now I’m curious. 🥸

I was communicating with Bont customer service about boot sizing and they said to make sure I don’t go too large or it will feel like I’m “skating on boats,” meaning that my feet would look very large. I had the random thought of wondering whether anyone ever skated on a cruise ship, and he said “So just recently Mr. Bont went on a cruise and they had a small rink aboard and he skated.” I never had any desire to go on a cruise, but if they had a skating rink, I would consider it. Know of any?

What brand of pads are you wearing these days? What do you like/dislike about the ones you’re using? I have great wrist guards, but I’ve only been using volleyball knee pads and no elbow pads. However, when I go to skate camp next weekend full pads are required. I’ve bought four different sets of pads from amazon and none of the knee pads fit. They’re either too bulky or too small. For now, I’m wearing elbow pads on my knees (!) and a different set of elbow pads on my elbows. I’m about 5’ and 105 pounds, so would be especially interested in what those on the smaller side have to share. Thanks!

I broke my pinky toe. Been out of commission. Bruising is gone but it's still swollen and hurts to wear a closed toe shoe. I'm going to wrap it and see how it goes in skates. Any of you ever have a broken toe while skating? Im going loop loop without my quad wheels on 🤪 lol!

We started here this week. Here’s a video on skates. (Not us. Yet.) And a tutorial for slow learners like me who need to start out in socks sans skates.