An edge is described by the way your skates lean. So, how many different edges can your skates make?
Instructors have names for 4 edges that can be made with a pair of skates:
Outside, where both skates lean out away from each other. |
Inside, where both skates lean in towards each other. |
Center, where both skates are upright, as in the ready position. |
And the one very few people get: corresponding, where both skates lean in the same direction. |
It's usually corresponding edges that people don't get.
Now don't ask me why other combinations aren't present: why isn't there a position where one skate is leant onto an inside edge and the other is on a center? I have no idea really, except for the feeling that left-inside-right-center is a bit of a mouthful!
