What is the pitch in an ice skate?

Question

What is the pitch?

Is it the angle between the blade and boot or the curve of the blade?

Answer 1

It's the angle that the blade is put on the boot, either pitch forward or back...

http://www.mts.net/~ghymers/Contouring/P...

Answer 2

Do you mean toe pick?

http://www.soyouwanna.com/site/syws/skat...

I've never heard of a pitch. But maybe we call it something different here.

Answer 3

I think you might mean the toe pick. It is the sharp part on the front of the blade. You use it for jumps- toe loop, flip, lutz - and you land all of your jumps on your toe pick.  Also, when you spin, you should  be near your toe pick.

When you are just beginning skating, a small toepick is fine, but as you get into the higher levels, like FS 2 and higher, you will need a larger toepick. At about FS 6, you should also get new skates or even just a new blade, because you need a larger toe pick.