Blade Survey 2013

[FigureSpins]

Goldenskate is hosting an online blade survey.  It's a collection of opinion questions regarding brands of skates and particularly, blades.

LINK: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/thegoldenskatesurvey2013

There's no closing date, but the first screen says that "All completed surveys will be entered into a monthly draw where two lucky winners will each receive a pair of competition blades worth over $400!"  Worth answering a few questions just for the sweeps entry.  It does ask for your name, City/State/Zip, email, gender, age group and category (Recreational Skater, Competitive Skater, Coach and Parent/Guardian.)

There is one question regarding where you research skates and blades.  I know many people use our message board as a critical place to research and discuss purchases.  If you would, please give us credit for this by answering this question with "www.skatingforums.com"  Thanks.

[davincisop]

Completed and named skatingforums.

[iomoon]

Done. Thanks for the link!

[ChristyRN]

Did it. Think my PB skating status will win me a set of competitive blades? 

[TreSk8sAZ]

Done!

[icedancer]

Thanks - interesting survey - hoping to win the blades of course but wondering what exactly they mean by "competitive blades'

also seemed skewed somewhat towards questions about Reidell and Jackson -

It will be interesting to see the results of the survey.

[FigureSpins]

Thanks all!

I answered on behalf of my students, who are all recreational skaters.  I was very honest, saying their choices are more influenced by appearance than technical features, their parents by $$ and I by quality.

Christy - I think it'll be a random draw.  The real question is what will you do with the top-end blades if you win?

Interesting that Wilson and MK stopped their monthly Facebook giveaways.  The prize might be a pair of blades from those brands.  (Just a guess, no insider info.)

I forgot to give credit for this: I found out about it via a promotional email from the PSA.

[WaltzJump413]

I just did the survey--interesting because I *just* got my very first pair of skates and was more concerned about boot fit than blade.

Mentioned the forums as one of my information sources.

[Qarol]

Showed me just how little I know about blades...ha!

[WaltzJump413]

Showed me just how little I know about blades...ha!

I felt that way too!

[icedancer]

Showed me just how little I know about blades...ha!

Well, I know a LOT about blades (I think I do anyway) but I think part of this was that it was a very poorly written and seemed to be targeting towards how people are experiencing the "new blade technology" - so if you haven't been in this sport a long time or haven't changed the type of blade you are skating on (who has hte $$$ to be trying out all of these blades???) then a lot of the survey was not meaningful.

Even the way they asked about price was confusing -

[sarahspins]

I took this survey a while back and I have a feeling it's sponsored by either Jackson or Paramount since the whole thing seemed strongly biased towards "new technology" - and I agree that the way many questions were worded was very odd.

[FigureSpins]

Even the way they asked about price was confusing -

ITA that section was confusing.  They should have used a different scale, like cheap to expensive.

I thought it might be sponsored by Riedell since they now have their own lines of both blades and boots.

[Qarol]

I thought it might be sponsored by Riedell since they now have their own lines of both blades and boots.

The part where we were to write a comment about each brand, for Riedell I wrote: I didn't know Riedell made blades.

[FigureSpins]

The part where we were to write a comment about each brand, for Riedell I wrote: I didn't know Riedell made blades.

lol

[ChristyRN]

Christy - I think it'll be a random draw.  The real question is what will you do with the top-end blades if you win?

Fall and bust my a$$??