| The celebrated speed-skater, A. V. Panschin, | | | | skating, but offers certainly some advantages in the |
| attempted to bring the racing skate still nearer to the | | | | short and often interrupted movements of the game |
| model of the Jackson Haines skate by rejecting the | | | | of hockey. The Canadians use a skate for their |
| tube-system and passing the long steel blade direct | | | | national game of hockey which presents a much more |
| into the metal sole plate, creating a light, elegant and | | | | pleasing appearance, being lighter and much more |
| fast skate. But with the disadvantage that the steel | | | | suitable for the game in every way. |
| tube was liable to be bent by a strong strike off; | | | | The only other kind of skate which we need mention is |
| moreover, it did not give the stability which the | | | | what is called the sailing skate, about two feet in length, |
| Norwegian with his tube-system possessed. Although | | | | distinguishing itself from the other systems principally by |
| 1910 skates with wooden soles were seldom used, an | | | | its enormous length, and also by the fact that it |
| improved system of the old Dutch wooden skate, | | | | extends principally beyond the heel. Also the blade or |
| called Kiompen, was used for racing purposes, and | | | | runner is quite straight and broader than on the |
| especially for touring over the canals in Holland. | | | | ordinary type of racing skate. As the name implies, it is |
| For the latter purpose there are ordinary metal skates | | | | used for skate-sailing. This skate is used mainly at |
| of several systems in use, but with lengthened blade | | | | present in Norway, Sweden and Russia. |
| and full rounded runner at the toe in order to surmount | | | | During the 1900 to 1910 an innumerable number of new |
| the more easily small unevenness on the ice. Two | | | | skate models appeared, mostly, however, of very little |
| more kinds of modern skates have still to be | | | | importance; such are the skates with Holletscheck |
| mentioned; the first is known in Germany and | | | | springs, and the Admiral skate, with runners consisting |
| elsewhere as the Hockey skate, and is still used in | | | | of three parts, which could be taken to pieces; also the |
| England for figure skating. The blade is short and | | | | Multiplex, a Dutch skate with removable blades, suitable |
| awkward-looking, and touches the metal foot plates, | | | | either for racing or figure-skating. There are many |
| being attached to them by means of two metal posts | | | | other models, but none of them have ever had a |
| or pillars; it is screwed on to the skating boot. This | | | | lasting success. |
| skate, of course, is not suitable in all respects for figure | | | | |