Guard Plastic
Do plastic skate guards really protect blades?
I know this is a little silly, but do they really protect the blade from going flat while walking around in them?
Because the plastic is hard and wouldn't that flatten them?
This explain it very well
"When should I use my skate guards?
Skate guards and rubber floor tiles are used to safeguard your blades. Excessive use of either, however, is harmful to your skating. The rubber floor tiles are particularly bad because they encourage you to walk around with no guards. The dust that collects on the floor tiles acts as a grinding compound to smoothly, almost imperceptively dull your edges. Walk sparingly on these tiles without your guards.
Your skate guards can also be harmful to your blades. Excessive walking in guards causes the blades to develop scallops from toe to heel from the ridges in the guards. Sharpening does not correct for these scallops and in fact tends to exacerbate the condition.
The other more obvious problem with guards is the likelihood of rust occurring if left on the blades while wet.
The proper use of guards is to wear them from bench to the rink and back. If a skater wants to wander about the rink, he should do so in his shoes."- http://fredsskatesharpening.com/qa_blades.html
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