Need a new pair of blades - Help/tips!

[Diana95]

Hi! I need advice on new figure skating blades as the topic says. I have the Jackson premiere boot with the Ultima Elite blades. It works quiet well except the fact that I scratch the ice with the last tooth of the toepick during spins and other footwork. I compared my toepick to a pattern 99 blade and the last tooth is actually not pointing down in the ice as much as the one on my blades. The mainly reason I bought these were that I thougt they are going to help me through the jumps and that they had this EXT-function.

I feel that I have improved a lot in my skating since I got this pair of blades/boots, and I feel safe on the ice, just except the toepick and maybe if the 8" rocker makes a difference in spins.

Now I am thinking of buying another pair of blades that does not have this massive toepick and thought of the paramount blade (coronation ace profile). I read that they are getting dull really fast and I want a longlasting edge.
My mainly question is - is it worth buying these blades, or should I get a pair of paramounts with stainless steel, or another ultima blade like protege/legacy? I don't really want another pair of ultimas, because I am worried that I will have the same problem with the toepick and that they are a bit flat.
I don't compete or so, but I skate as much as I can and skate with an adult skating group once a week.

Haha sorry for the long post! 

[AgnesNitt]

You can have the bottom toepick (called the 'drag pick') angled. This does not mean removed. It means you skate tech can take just a tiny bit of the back side of the drag pick off. It's cheaper than new blades, and if you don't like it you can still get new blades.

I've had this done to every single pair of blades I've had.

[Loops]

Up 'til now, I've always skated on Professionals, and once a long time ago on Coronation Aces.  On both, the toe picks are big enough without being overly aggressive (I did free/dance/synchro, now just dance/synchro).  They have a 7' rocker, to which you'd need to adjust, but they're good all around blades at a nice price point.  I chose which depending on which, if either was cheaper at the time.  I feel like the toe rake is slightly less aggressive on the Prof though.

I doubt it's what you're looking for, but I just switched to Vision Synchros, and am finding that I really like them, now that I'm getting accustomed to the angled drag pick (it makes some things interesting....like stopping while going fast backwards, say when a pinwheel  breaks).   I don't think the "normal" vision has the angled drag.  (for the record though, I like the short length- I don't hit my tails anymore, and it's not at all holding me back from jumping)

I've never used paramounts, but have heard that they do hold sharpenings longer.  I can't really comment on them beyond that.