What is the best way to dull the blades on my ice skates?

The best way to get over that is skating more! Keep practicing stops (even if you can't do them right away, keep trying it) and making snow. It may be uncomfortable and hard at first, but be persistent, and they will dull down.

I know that my sharpener rubs skates on a block of wood to dull them slightly, but I would never do that myself. Too risky; you could make a mistake and chip your blade or something. Just go skating and do stops.

EDIT: As I said before, I would never try the wood thing myself. I'm not sure how to do it properly, and I'm not sure if there's a specific type of wood you're supposed to use. So I wouldn't say that it's safe to try, unless you don't mind the risk of damaging your blades.

The best and safest way to dull the blades is to skate in them. Don't try to stop or anything, just stand on the ice and make snow with one blade, then switch to the other. Or you could always go back to the sharpener and ask them to dull the blades.

Like the other answers said, the best and safest way to dull your skates is just by sharpening them more. It's not a problem of the blades being to sharp, because they are never really "too sharp". Its just that if its the first sharpening in new skates or in a really long time then it will feel a bit strange and uncomfortable to skate. If you continue to just skate a lot then the problem should be gone in about a few days, depending on how much you go to the rink. When you are on the ice, don't really spin or jump at first, just focus on stopping and a lot of warm up excersizes. Just simple things like different types of stops and turns (three turn, choctaw, rocker, etc.) will help your blades feel normal again. Resharpening your skates will not help, but actually make it worse.

This isn't because the blade is too sharp, but because the blade is sharper and able to get a firmer grip onto the ice. When your blades are dull and you haven't sharpened them in a while, you are sliding and skidding all over the ice because there is no grip and no edge. So when you get them sharpened, the difference is shocking because you are not used to it.

Just like all the other answers, the best way to dull your blades without hurting them is by skating. You could possibly ruin your blades trying to ''fix'' them. The easiest ways for me to stop are swizzles and the snowplow (if you need to youtube has videos for these). The only guess i can come up with for your turning problem is that maybe your skates aren't tight enough. Also newly sharpened blades can sometimes have you slide a little more (even though you stopped). Anyway keep skating and it should be fine.

Hoped this helped! :)

Skating. That's the only way to dull the blades. If you can do a snowplow stop, do a lot of those. (Or just stand and make snow with your blades, that should help a little.) If you know how, do swizzles. Swizzles are one move thatyou could look up on YouTube and probably not do them totally completely wrong without proper instruction.

One time I got my blades sharpened and the guy who sharpened them sharpened them way to much. and he told me to go to the wall and do snow plow stops on each foot for a few mintues. Another good way is to rub you blade on the little plastic thing (right before you get on the ice, the step in the wall.) but just rub it for a second because you don't want to hurt your blade.