I have been skating since September 2021. (I'm not a professional skater; I skate just for fun!) As an adult figure skater, I completely agree with your opinion. I used the Gold Seal Revolution blades for a year but had difficulty with my scratch spin. However, I recently switched my boots and blades due to arch pain. I changed from Piano+Gold Seal Revolution to RF3 Pro and Gold Seal. Now, my pain has disappeared, and my scratch spin has become more stable. Finding my spin rocker was challenging initially, but now it's easy with my new blade. As you mentioned, Revolution's tail is definitely shorter than the original Gold Seal. When I used Revolution, I often fell back because of its short tail. However, I feel more stable now. I don't perform Biellmann or catch foot spins, but Revolution's small holes always frustrated me as they made drying my wet blades tiresome. Initially, I hesitated to buy a new blade due to its high price, but now I believe it was the best purchase I made this year. I also think Gold Seal and Gold Seal Revolution are completely different blades. I apologize for any mistakes in my English; it's not my native language. Have a nice day! From a South Korean skater♡
I'm having so much trouble with mine too! I've almost completely lost my backspin, and my back inside edges were really hard to control. Turns out my right blade is bent slightly, and it's a fairly common issue with the rev blades. Never again.
i’m having the same problem with my gold seal revs :((( i’m also struggling with spinning as it seems unless the ice is perfectly smooth the edge on the gold seal revs gets caught on EVERYTHINGGG i’m wanting to switch to reg gold seals
Hi guys. From my perspective, the main, say problematic issue with the Gold Seal Revolution blades, is their non-parallel sides. The blade is 3.8 mm wide in front near toothpicks and 3.0 mm wide at the rear side. And the shape IS NOT a line, it is a curve. Probably parabolic, and the higher/deeper side curvature is near the front or at the sweet spot in front part of the blades. This makes all things more complicated and the blades are extremely problematic to get clamped into any type of clamp of any sharpener. Blademaster, Pro-sharp, Sparx. Does not matter. All are designed to clamp the blade on its parallel sides, not curved. And, you guessed it, this makes extremely difficult to get the sharpening properly done to deliver the same edge height, outer and inner. Even Matt Redmond did not notice this problematic shape. He perceive there is something wrong, namming it "these are often curved somehow" and he is hunting the moving target as anyone would do. (check this video: ua-cam.com/video/-YFmzCkq4gg/v-deo.html ) So bassically, the parablic curve on blade sides is a big troublemaker from my perspective, both for skater and for skates tech. It delivers inconsistent sharpening no matter how experienced the person, who is doing the sharpening, is. Anyone who reads this, do you have an experience with sharpening this model? I'd love to share my. Please, contact me via this youtube discussion or email me jan.zilka@krasobrus.cz
Any tech who knows what they're doing can sharpen tapered and parabolic blades just fine. Obviously, the sharpening is done manually "by hand" in this case (although I wouldn't trust automatic sharpening machines with high end figure skating blades even with parallel edges. Hockey skates, ok). Parabolic blades are rarer (and a custom order), but are actually pretty cool to skate on. If I had to sharpen my blades myself, the gains are totally not worth the extra effort tho. You need to clamp them from the stachion that is made parallel to the blade, since yes in Gold Seals not only is the blade not parallel, but neither are the sides which are "side-honed" as well (giving them a parallel shape, but this does not affect the stachion that connects the blade to the screw floor, this part is parallel to the blade).
Unfortunatelly, no stanchion side on Gold Seal Revolution is parallel. Maybe, there is one area near the toothpicks, that is, but maybe it is not. Nobody is really sure. And even if it was, it would not help at all. I claimed my concern directly to JW, but they pointed on unspecific "we have some video on youtube". Which does not help either.
@@janzilka1470 Oh yeah, Revolution Gold Seals are trickier, my bad. And yeah, there shouldn't be side honing near the toepicks. What do you mean it's no help at all, can't you use that to measure the squareness (as long as you can get the blade on in your jig)? From what I've seen, Revolution blades are horrible anyway. As a skater, grabbing the thing: horrible. Quality assurance: horrible (having a tech sharpen them properly is one thing, but you'd be lucky to get one from the factory that is even straight, and even if you were lucky to get one, you need yet more luck to keep it that way, because the blade is too damn thin). And don't get me started on the price, absolutely ridiculous, given what you get. On the straightness point btw, I wonder if the blade is actually even meant to be that way, or if it's just the result of bad manufacturing? Because to me that sounds more like a tapered edge (that regular GS, Revolution included, is supposed to be) that's crooked, than a true "parabolic" blade...
I have been skating since September 2021. (I'm not a professional skater; I skate just for fun!) As an adult figure skater, I completely agree with your opinion. I used the Gold Seal Revolution blades for a year but had difficulty with my scratch spin. However, I recently switched my boots and blades due to arch pain. I changed from Piano+Gold Seal Revolution to RF3 Pro and Gold Seal. Now, my pain has disappeared, and my scratch spin has become more stable. Finding my spin rocker was challenging initially, but now it's easy with my new blade. As you mentioned, Revolution's tail is definitely shorter than the original Gold Seal. When I used Revolution, I often fell back because of its short tail. However, I feel more stable now. I don't perform Biellmann or catch foot spins, but Revolution's small holes always frustrated me as they made drying my wet blades tiresome. Initially, I hesitated to buy a new blade due to its high price, but now I believe it was the best purchase I made this year. I also think Gold Seal and Gold Seal Revolution are completely different blades. I apologize for any mistakes in my English; it's not my native language. Have a nice day! From a South Korean skater♡
they could bave plug your boot and install the regular GS. Rev blade is shorter length and mount as wel, so I would get a size up.
curious why they couldn't plug the holes in your boot and put the new blades on! : O
YESS ! This is great😮 love your content
Hi good morning happy Friday morning and I loved your chit-chat vlogs and this was amazing video I enjoy your channel
Thanks!! 😅 (I thought the revolution looks cool and it could be better than the regular blades!)
I'm having so much trouble with mine too! I've almost completely lost my backspin, and my back inside edges were really hard to control. Turns out my right blade is bent slightly, and it's a fairly common issue with the rev blades. Never again.
i’m having the same problem with my gold seal revs :((( i’m also struggling with spinning as it seems unless the ice is perfectly smooth the edge on the gold seal revs gets caught on EVERYTHINGGG i’m wanting to switch to reg gold seals
Hi guys.
From my perspective, the main, say problematic issue with the Gold Seal Revolution blades, is their non-parallel sides. The blade is 3.8 mm wide in front near toothpicks and 3.0 mm wide at the rear side. And the shape IS NOT a line, it is a curve. Probably parabolic, and the higher/deeper side curvature is near the front or at the sweet spot in front part of the blades.
This makes all things more complicated and the blades are extremely problematic to get clamped into any type of clamp of any sharpener. Blademaster, Pro-sharp, Sparx. Does not matter. All are designed to clamp the blade on its parallel sides, not curved.
And, you guessed it, this makes extremely difficult to get the sharpening properly done to deliver the same edge height, outer and inner. Even Matt Redmond did not notice this problematic shape. He perceive there is something wrong, namming it "these are often curved somehow" and he is hunting the moving target as anyone would do. (check this video: ua-cam.com/video/-YFmzCkq4gg/v-deo.html )
So bassically, the parablic curve on blade sides is a big troublemaker from my perspective, both for skater and for skates tech. It delivers inconsistent sharpening no matter how experienced the person, who is doing the sharpening, is.
Anyone who reads this, do you have an experience with sharpening this model? I'd love to share my. Please, contact me via this youtube discussion or email me jan.zilka@krasobrus.cz
Any tech who knows what they're doing can sharpen tapered and parabolic blades just fine. Obviously, the sharpening is done manually "by hand" in this case (although I wouldn't trust automatic sharpening machines with high end figure skating blades even with parallel edges. Hockey skates, ok).
Parabolic blades are rarer (and a custom order), but are actually pretty cool to skate on. If I had to sharpen my blades myself, the gains are totally not worth the extra effort tho.
You need to clamp them from the stachion that is made parallel to the blade, since yes in Gold Seals not only is the blade not parallel, but neither are the sides which are "side-honed" as well (giving them a parallel shape, but this does not affect the stachion that connects the blade to the screw floor, this part is parallel to the blade).
Unfortunatelly, no stanchion side on Gold Seal Revolution is parallel. Maybe, there is one area near the toothpicks, that is, but maybe it is not. Nobody is really sure. And even if it was, it would not help at all.
I claimed my concern directly to JW, but they pointed on unspecific "we have some video on youtube". Which does not help either.
@@janzilka1470 Oh yeah, Revolution Gold Seals are trickier, my bad. And yeah, there shouldn't be side honing near the toepicks. What do you mean it's no help at all, can't you use that to measure the squareness (as long as you can get the blade on in your jig)?
From what I've seen, Revolution blades are horrible anyway. As a skater, grabbing the thing: horrible. Quality assurance: horrible (having a tech sharpen them properly is one thing, but you'd be lucky to get one from the factory that is even straight, and even if you were lucky to get one, you need yet more luck to keep it that way, because the blade is too damn thin). And don't get me started on the price, absolutely ridiculous, given what you get.
On the straightness point btw, I wonder if the blade is actually even meant to be that way, or if it's just the result of bad manufacturing? Because to me that sounds more like a tapered edge (that regular GS, Revolution included, is supposed to be) that's crooked, than a true "parabolic" blade...