Cool Videos from the Web

[Isk8NYC]

Found a handful of professional videos on the web related to skating and thought I'd share them.

[Isk8NYC]

The History Channel's "Guts and Bolts" program has a 5-minute video about the Zamboni ice resurfacer.

http://www.history.com/media.do?id=gandb_zamboni_broadband&action=clip

(Click the "Play" button to start the pre-video commercial. The video follows afterward automatically.)

[Isk8NYC]

This is a Martha Stewart-narrated video recorded at Klingbeil's shop in Queens, NY. (It's on Klingbeil's website)

The video shows how custom ice skate boots are made, start to finish.

http://www.klingbeilskatingboots.com/video.html

My little ones used this for a first-grade project on "Goods and Services."
These are the "goods," for "services" they went to our pro shop and he taught them how to sharpen blades. Both girls received A+ grades; didn't hurt that one of the teachers is a figure skater's mom. (Yep, her DD wears Klingbeil's!)

[Isk8NYC]

Rob Nokes is a Sound Recordist who is handling the on-ice effects for the Wil Ferrell movie "Blades of Glory." In this video, he demonstrates the equipment and techniques used to get the sound effects for the skating sequences.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4025998672538949026