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I'm thinking about buying inline skates. What's the difference between Snow White and PIC Skates? Which ones do you recommend more?
Snow White or PIC Skates
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A major consideration is that Snow Whites are only sold as a pre-mounted set with either Risport or Edea boots. Pic Skates plates can be purchased separately and mounted to any figure skate boots.
That's not true, you can buy them separately too (in Poland, don't know about other countries).
Here's the info from the US distributor:
http://www.shopsk8gear.com/snow-white-skates
"The Snow White® company uses Edea® and Risport® boots for their inline figure skate factory assembled collection.
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The Sk8gear Store can also assemble inline frames to boots from our own Belati® Ice Collection. We can also assemble to Riedell®, SP-Teri® and other brands for custom inline figure skate assemblies. "
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That's weird. Snow White is sold separately at my rink pro shop. (premounted with Edea or Risport too but there's no problem to get it mounted to any other boot)
EDIT: I missed this part
EDIT: I missed this part
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I am going by the Snow White website as it was two weeks ago. I could not find any option for buying the plates separately from the boots. Maybe it takes ordering through a private dealer to get them separate from the boots.
Snow White uses the term frames, not plates. The Snow White website has options for ordering complete outfits (boots + frames) or frames only. Here is the page for ordering frames only (there is a web archive of this page going back to 2006, so it's nothing new that's popped up in the last two weeks; perhaps the page was being updated and unavailable when you looked):
http://www.inlinefigure.com/order%20Snow%20White.htm
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There is actually a Pic Skate club somewhere in my area (greater Wash DC area, includes DC, MD, and N. VA), supposedly headed by Nick Perna. I don't know of anyone from my specific rink who belongs to it, I think they practice more in VA. They do their programs on both the wheels and on the ice, which is really cool.
