I've lost a glove, and had to wear different ones today, started me thinking about gloves in general.

I wear cycling gloves. They are fingerless, lycra back and synthetic leather palm, with gel pads where I am most likely to fall on, and they're fingerless. They look awfully butch, but I really like them. Now I have lost one (sniff - they cost about $50) so this morning I had to wear magic gloves. Wasn't long before I took them off, they made my hands way to hot. It felt weird skating without gloves, sort of naked and a bit daring. I fall too often and the ice is too rough to consider going naked, though I will for a comp.

So, what sort of gloves do other people wear?

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Sorry to hear you lost your expensive glove.

I like the little knit "magic gloves".. but then I have a tendency to need something bright at the end of my hands to remind me to keep my arms outstretched and at shoulder height for most things. And I don't get too warm, because generally I wear sleeveless dresses. I also like that they are easy to mend and CHEAP!!!

A former student gave me a beautiful pair of fleece gloves that matched my rink jacket, and I had a pair of gloves with cute little penguins and mini-pompom-snowballs, but I loaned them to one of our skating school assistant instructors and she kept "forgetting" them at home. I don't lend out anything now, not even markers.

I now have two pairs of black gloves that I bought at a supermarket for $2 each. They look like wool, but they're really polyester. They're sized for an adult so they don't need to stretch very much. This is my second year with them and I keep watching to see if the supermarket gets them in again this year because I like them so much.

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cheap super stretchy gloves from Target. They're usually around $3 for 2 pairs and are identical to the super stretchy gloves in the rink pro shop except for the price (much cheaper at Target).

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Cross country skiing gloves, made by Swix. They are thin yet warm with synthetic leather on the palm side & made for aerobic activity in the cold. I buy them when they go on sale at my local nordic ski shop.

Otherwise, just cheap knit gloves bought in bulk.

Jon

I wear these:
http://www.rainbosports.com/shop/sit...CE77AA8A049AB0

Cheap, keep my hands warm- and with my nerve damage that's important to me.

I think I can get them cheaper at a target, but I just threw em in with my skate order.


I have an awesome pair of pearl izumi cycling gloves with gel pads that I use for cycling. I guess they would cushion if I fell onto my hands, but they are a little chunky around the fingers and I would have a hard time making "graceful hands"

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I wear close fitted red ones, which are that soft material which looks like wool but feels a bit like velvet. They are knitted and do leave patterns on your hands if you fall!

My hands have never got hot in them, and they feel nice too!

I really only wear gloves if it's cold, and try to take them off once I've warmed up. But I do keep a pair in my skate bag, just in case it is cold - although last week Husband didn't have a pair and it was very cold, so I kindly lent them to him and wore the gloves out of my coat pocket.

But we both try to wear them as little as possible.

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I wear those stretchy fabric gloves from Target. They're $1.50 for 2 pairs, or they were when I got them. You get 2 pairs in a pack. When I lose them or htey become torn or something, I just toss them. I also am known to wear 2 different color gloves when I forget where my arms are supposed to be. When coming out of a spin, it would take me a while to realize which was my right and which was my left. So I started wearing 2 different colors, and it was easier to say the blue hand goes in front and the green in the back. Then, I got used to it, and can now wear the same colors. But I do wear 2 diff. ones on occasion when I need a reminder,

I wear the stretchy gloves too. I have a couple pairs of them in a chenille fabric that I wear now, for a little extra warmth. Our rink is VERY cold and I have been known to wear two pairs during Dec and Jan. I have about 15 pairs or so and I just stick my hand in the bag and grab two. I have a black dress with pink and blue side stripes and I sometimes wear one blue and one pink glove for fun. Or a friend and I will each wear a orange and a green. Things like that, just for fun. For competition/test warm ups we wear black, white or beige gloves.

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My rink is a very cold rink. It seems when the temp outside is cold, they keep it even colder inside. During last winter, I could not skate without a hat or my ears would get freezer burnt! I wore ski gloves that are high quality and made for very active outdoor sports. For the summer I wore only ski glove liners that are also for high activity. Might be my Texan thin blood but I am always cold on the rink unless it is 100 degrees outside!

My daughter and I wear the Target stretchy gloves, too - in fact, we just stocked up for the season last week. We also have these enormous double-layer fleece mittens we wear over them when it's really cold.

Umm, am I the only person who wears cheap 99 cent brown cotton garden gloves?

They last about two weeks before I manage to slice a hole in them putting on my blade guards. Because they are so cheap, I buy several pairs at a time and treat them as expendable.

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when I dont lose them i just get the one from the 99c store too... i used to have leather biker gloves, but i lost 'em

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I have problems getting gloves to fit. I have a very broad palm and gloves often squeeze it in making my hand cramp, so I must use very stretchy gloves. THe rink barier is slick plastic so I can't really use knit gloves unless they have the little rubber beebles on the palms.

My favorites are a little more expensive - they are $11 a pair "mechanics gloves" from Walmart. The palm and fingers are thin leather. The rest of the glove is nice stretchy lycra. I wear out the leather in about 6 months - better the gloves than my skin.
Lyle

I use the stretchy knit gloves from Walmart, about $1.42 for 2 pair. When they get ripped, I chuck them. I buy up their stock at their end-of-season clearance sale, when they are usually 25 cents for 2 pair.

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I always start out with mittens (Isotoner mittens, cream color with brown suede palms -- have bought several pairs of these over the years) -- mittens keep your fingers warm because they are all together and keep each other warm.

Eventually my hands get hot and then I switch to those super-stretchy cheapo ones that you get at Target, only I usually get mine from the lost and found. I have about 10 pairs of them, mostly black, and right now I am wearing a nice light green pair.

I occassionally skate with no gloves (at the cold, regular rinks) -- at the mall rink where we ice-dance, I don't wear any gloves (or any sleeves for that matter -- too hot!!).

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I wear a combination of these and the cheapo $1 Magic Stretch Gloves. I also have the gel pads from SkatingSafe.com under my leather gloves for extra cushion on falls too.

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I think it's better to forgo the gloves altogether; Otherwise, you get used to wearing them during practices and then you'll feel naked without them during tests and competitions.

Yes, my padded Pearl Izumi bicycle gloves were a godsend when I was first landing my axel. I kept landing backwards on one foot, but then falling backwards and having to break my fall with my palms. My palms got so bruised they hurt, so my husband suggested them and they worked like a charm. But I eventually stopped wearing them because they were leather and so I never washed them and they got stinky. . .

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I agree that you definitely need to get used to skating your program without gloves before you skate it in competition or for a test. But if the ice is rough or you're practicing something you're likely to fall on, gloves are a really good idea!

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"You don't have to put an age limit on your dreams." - Dara Torres, 41, after her 2nd medal at the 2008 Olympics

When I started skating I used to wear Damart gloves, that is until I left them in the tumble dryer and they came out pixie sized! By the time I got around to getting a new pair, I'd got used to skating without gloves.

I am however thinking about getting another pair at some point for hydroblading. Does anybody here hydroblade without gloves?

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Does anyone else think it's funny that a question on gloves generates over 20 responses?

Edit: Not that there's anything wrong with it, but only on a skating forum will it get this kind of response. I just find it amusing. Now back to your original discussion on the benefits of different gloves.

Oh, I dunno. . . Wanna go to a softball or cycling discussion board, plant a "What gloves do you wear" thread, then run and hide and see what happens?

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"You don't have to put an age limit on your dreams." - Dara Torres, 41, after her 2nd medal at the 2008 Olympics

See, that's the other thing I never understood. Maybe because I am not much of a cyclist, but why do they need to wear gloves? To stop there hands from slipping off the handlebars? Or is it for protection from falling?

I don't know if a softballer or cycler would have the same response. In softabll, you wear the softball gloves. Sure there are different brands, but skating, we can wear any kind of gloves, from the cheapo stretchy gloves, to garden gloves, to ski gloves, to cycling gloves. That makes us special