Peter Attia· MD
they then evolved to a clap skate which means that the rear heel of the blade was in touch with ya and detaches so that when you push the blade actually still stays on the ice as the heel comes off so you get like a 5 to 15 percent additional advantage every single time you push and I was I watched that phenomenon come on come with you an impact did that have on times it changed everything it changed who was good it changed who wasn't good at change which countries were really strong for a period of time because people couldn't understand how to skate in a clap skate mechanism because the technique is so much different and it really became a lot to do with the type of equipment that you had and your ability as an athlete to transfer your power through the clap skate mechanism you could be the world's greatest on a fixed skate mechanism go to the clap skate and not even make the top 20 so it was a really difficult learning curve for a lot of athletes and a lot of people started just to just basically give up and they just they just dropped out what year did that transition take place this was 1995 when we really start to see it 95 96 and 97 was when that was the peak years of the clap skate