All I can suggest is find out the brand name, then Google. I think maybe it is a small market and hard to get into. The person I know undercuts the big names.

I know someone who sells hockey gear including gloves, tracksuits and shirts, and he buys them from factories in Pakistan. I suspect they provide a range of designs and materials to choose from, and he specifies the colours, and designs any emblems such as team logos. I can’t really ask him who he buys from for obvious reasons.

The alternative is to buy a big name brand and deal with the U.K. or European distributors, but of course that would cost more, but require less work and risk.

I have mine done by Sk8mum, who is based in Trafford area.
 
Give her a PM via the forum and she will let you know when she can fit you in.  Usually you drop off your boots and collect 15-20 minutes later.

Noted on facebook recently..

"On Friday 1st March Sheffield ice Skating Club are offering a full day adult training camp, 9-6. This will be hosted by a range of professionals including on ice with David Hartley & Yebin Mok & will include on & off ice training, fitness, ballet with Alison Russel, nutrition & meal planning, warm up/cool down techniques & choreography in line with latest Criteria & guidance. Suitable for dance & free."

..but there doesn't appear to be anything on their website about it yet; http://www.icesheffieldskatingacademy.co.uk/

Everybody slows down on the forwards one foot slalom.  Try it backwards - much more fun!  Known as "power pulls".

How are you on changes of edge?  You need to be able to hold a good edge and then change to the other one.  It's not so much a swivel of the skating foot as a transfer of weight to change the edge.  Have you been taught those as two curves along a straight axis?  If your edges are correct, with your weight in the right place, you shouldn't find your blade acting as a snowplough.

Bending and straightening the skating leg is part of the momentum thing but there needs to be good use of the ankle too, to generate movement and the required curve.  It's all about those edges.  I find it nigh on impossible to explain without demonstrating, though.

Thank you, you’re an angel! I tried this evening and managed a decent one foot forwards slalom. A figure skating friend even described it as good. As you say, it’s not a swivel of the foot, but simply a series of C cuts, with weight repeatedly transferred from one edge to the other. It is a sort of wiggle, with flex of the ankle, but also a swing of the hips. It’s very much a combination of timing and balance. I do slow down a bit, and it certainly needs more work, but I feel I have cracked the basic mechanism. I also tried backwards at the instigation of a friend, and sort of managed it, but with a look of sheer terror on my face. He asked me what the expression meant, as he is not good at interpreting expressions, and I explained that it was fear!