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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for the info, glad you found a nice setup! Never considered heating the boot itself, seems kinda risky.

It turned out that the Intuition liners do adapt to your feet after skating them for a while. I could even put the valcro butterflies back on for better responsiveness without introducing new hot spots.

How about the 2nd Skin liners? Did they require much breaking in? Or did they fit right away?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Seems like a decent pair of skates, glad you found something that works well for you!

Can you maybe explain the wheel setup? I guess with 80-80-76-76 you are referring to different sizes; what benefits do you gain from this arrangement compared to a flat setup?

Will report back with a longer term review if anyone’s interested.

If you like to, please do!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They do offer some strange technology. Even after reading most of their explanations I still don’t quite get how this kind of rockering is supposed to help but as I said, I have no clue about hockey. Anyway, fascinating stuff!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I created [email protected], a community for quad & inline skating. So far there was only a single post from someone other than me. 🥲

I’d also like to go much more niche with a community specifically for wizard skating. But considering the limited popularity of skating communities, there is no need to hurry creating that one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I use it on a Raspberry Pi 4.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

On the one hand I like Lua for its elegant, minimalistic design. I enjoy writing Lua, most of the time when working on Neovim plugins.

On the other hand I value the raw expressive power of C++. It is a beast, but I enjoy taming it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

You’re welcome!
I’m curious which setup you’ll end up with and if it works out for you. So if you have the time, please feel free to share. Also, if you have further questions, please don’t hesitate to ask.

Anyway, good luck, I hope you and your son have fun!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Unfortunately, I do not know anything about hockey. However, I recently did a bit of research on rockered frames in the context of wizard skating.

These are the brands I know of that are selling rockered frames:

A pair usually costs around 200 €.

You could get a relatively cheap boot, like the Powerslide Zoom (the same boot as in the USD Sway), but with wheels and bearings you’ll arrive at 300 to 400 €.

Maybe check out some freeskates instead, like this one: https://bladeville.com/seba-e3-80-black-black.html, Seba has a good reputation, as far as I know.

Whatever model you choose, I’d recommend going for a skate with removable frames (check out this video, if you want to know more about frame mounting).

You could also ask a store directly what they would recommend, they can mix and match different parts for you, at least some stores do (like thisissoul.com in the Netherlands, or skamidan.com in Germany).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

A lot of effort has gone into improving the performance and speed of all aspects of Inkscape.

Oh yeah! That’s what I want to see.

This involved the refactoring of inefficient code, rewriting how Inkscape works with patterns, moving bitmap tracing into a separate thread and so much more.

Canvas rendering is now both multithreaded, and done outside of Inkscape's main process thread.

If your computer's processor has more than one core (which it most likely does), this can result in a 2–4× speedup while zooming / panning / transforming objects.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hah, same. As an overambitious employee of Grizzco the catalogue pages just fly by.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Lol, turns out it was just a shill for selling shoes. Under these circumstances their about page seems especially obnoxious and cringy:

Something is happening. We don’t know exactly what shape it will take, but it’s been brewing for a while. It feels like an attitude, but it's more of a movement. It caught our attention, so we brought together some of the best from roller skating and action sports to create Lazo, and capture it in the design of our products.

Ridiculous.

 

I love seeing aggressive skating becoming more technical. (I’ll probably stay closer to the wizard end of the wizard-aggressive spectrum, though. 🧙‍♂️)

 

One of my favourite wizard edits with Joey from Mushroom Blading and Leon Basin.

The edit is full of smooth, creative and silly tricks; also there is no music, just the soothing sound of big wheels in solid metal frames sliding on nice concrete.

 

Some crazy good skating from the 80s: incredible levels of flexibility and control!

 

These guys never fail to motivate and inspire me to go out and try stuff. Even though this one is pretty different from their usual videos I still felt like going out on a stroll through nature after watching this one.

 

I am so glad that this edit was released! It raises the bar significantly and shows that quad skaters can easily compete with inlines in terms of style and skill.

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