I occasionally skate in jeans to coach, but never to train in. I used to wear tracksuit bottoms/sweatpants but now I wear proper skating pants all the time. Jeans are too restrictive or if they are looser they move too much and both jeans and tracksuit bottoms just feel untidy to me. I actually got on the ice wearing tracksuit bottoms for the first time in ages a few weeks ago and I had to get off and change. Skating pants move the way they should and they show your lines, I find that makes me skate better.

I get my skating pants from Jerry's, they are quite a modern cut in matt fabric and no crease down the front.

John

I had no problem skating in jeans, provided they were not baggy or didn't have that wide/flared boot cut. I was able to do spirals, camel spins, flying camels, Y-spirals, shoot-the-ducks, hydroblades, and other moves in them.

I no longer skate in jeans because, well, they just don't breathe enough and when they get wet, ick. I now wear an old pair of Blue Skys competition pants that never quite fit me properly. Before that, I wore warm-up pants and Nike running pants.

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