Kevlar

I've gotten into the habit of wearing kevlar knee warmers when I do track skating. Many of my friends stare at my legs in amazement before asking me with an incredulous "aren't you hot wearing those?!". The truth is, yes, they are constricting and I would much rather not wear them. On the bright side, I am "blessed" with a pair of legs which are not too sensitive to temperature. I've been known to wear mini skirt without tights in below-freezing temperature.

Having said all that, I honestly don't know how well my legs are protected by those kevlar. You see, I actually haven't given them a real crash test. I've seen ML totally destroyed his and his leg came out without a scratch. I've also seen PP ripped a hole in hers and her knee in one go. I hope that I will never need to find out. One thing that's for certain, you will not see kevlar on me at a race.

Covered knees is a minority in my club.

In the last few practices, we have been working on some technique drills which are building blocks for learning double push. Personally, I'm not too keen on mastering double push so I tend to treat those drills simply as practices for edge control. I must say I'm quite perplexed by this coaching decision. Basically, there are those who already mastered the double push and those who have not. For the nots, most of us are still working on our own laundry list of technique issues for the classic push. I wonder if there's been specific requests from members to learn double push? Well, I suppose it's never a bad thing to work on edge control.