Major boot makers such as Jackson (Canada), Riedell (USA) both produce rental skates and entry level skates in factories in southern China. These boots are made to Canadian and USA Standards and are of the highest quality. If you're after competition level boots and blades, the finest boots come from San Francisco (both Harlick and SP Teri are based there and they serve the majority of the world's best skaters. Kneble in Canada also makes competition level boots but their market is primarily Canadian skaters.
There are a few other boot makes in Austria and even in Australia that also serve this exclusive market. As for blades, well all of the MK and Wilson blades come from England where they've made skate blades for more than 100 years. Wilson even made blades for the boots worn by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. These old skates are now kept in a bank vault and are brought out only on special occasions. The Jackson-Ultima company of Canada also produces beautiful figure skating blades that are made in Taiwan.
The World Ice Arena Hangzhou will supply just about any kind of skate you might need but in some cases we might have to order directly from the manufacturer. We specialize in figure skating equipment but can also get most hockey and speed skates as well.
As a matter of curiosity, there are 2 other sports which use ice rinks but without ice skates. One is Broomball (highly popular in the USA) and Curling (an Olympic sport popular in Europe and Canada and now even in northern China).
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