Figure skates help?

ok. i am interested into these skates but i need help.


http://www.skate-buys.com/donjafrlafis.h...


Ok my skates right now are a size 5. but my shoe is like 6. I need help on these new skates. They say to go down 1.5 shoe size. My probelm is my skates right now have no padding in them. but the new ones do. Shoud l get a 5 or a 5.5 or 6. DOES padding in skates affect the size to get.. I am so confused.. WEll i need to know bc i found different types of skates that i might get but i am thinking that these would be more for me. I just need the size help.


If this is confusing then sorry.i can%26#039;t reallymake it sound good.


thanks

Figure skates help?
Each brand and type of skates run differently in their sizing. You need to go to a pro shop and get sized for your skates because the size and width you need may vary depending on what skates you are coming from.
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Reply:Hun, I skated from the time I was 11 until I was 18, and I wish that I would have started taking lessons at a much younger age. My beginning teacher taught me in rental skates. Then after I moved past Basic 1, Basic 2, and then went into Intermediate, I bought custom made ice skates in San Francisco, CA because my middle toe was longer than my big toe (hereditary thing). My basic figure skating teacher happened to be a man and he also ran the pro shop. He measured my foot and I only went down one half size because my foot was still growing. And at first when my boots were too big, I used to pack the toes with lambswool, which took up just about the right amount of space until I fully grew into the boots.


Once I got to Freestyle 2, I went through two pair of skates a year but my foot had stopped growing, so I had a mold made in San Francisco and when I reordered my skates, they were made from the mold that was made of my foot.


My parents took me to CA and my Dad paid for these skates for me, but I think they ran somewhere in the vacinity of $250.00, but that is because they were custom made to fit my feet. I was moving up into competative ice-skating, figure 8%26#039;s, by the time I finished Intermediate 1. I even started working a little bit in ice-dancing with a teen that was in the same class as me and my Basic 1 teacher was working with me in partners skating. At that time, we didn%26#039;t have a young man my age to skate with a partner until another 6 months had passed.


When I graduated from high school, I had to stop figure-skating classes even though I made it to Freestyle 4 and the only thing holding me back was my Axel. It was time for me to go to college and my parents were going through a bad divorce, so that is why I gave up figure-skating, although I still skated whenever I could sneak in a little bit of time in between college and studying.


I know I got off track here, but I%26#039;ve heard that Reidell%26#039;s are okay for beginners, and Jackson%26#039;s are fine for Intermediate level, but as you progress you are probably going to need a lot stronger boot to support you when you get into Freestyle 1 and 2. In Freestyle 2, you should be pretty well through or finishing up all of your single jumps. In Freestyle 4, I was working on my single Axel and all of my double jumps, so that is when you are really going to go through probably two pairs of skates per year, if you skate and practice a lot like I did.


Personally, it would be best if a Pro fitted you in a similar pair of skates before you order these skates. But if you are going to buy them off of the Internet, all I can say is try the boots on when you are on a carpeted floor so you don%26#039;t scratch the bottoms or sides up, just in case they don%26#039;t feel right, too tight, not enough room in the toe, and you need to return them for a different size, etc. You should have at least 1/2 to 3/4 inch room left in the toe area to allow your feet to grow some more. You didn%26#039;t give your age, but if you wear a size 6 shoe, I%26#039;m willing to bet that you are a teenager. That%26#039;s about what size I wore in high school until my Junior year, and then I grew into a size 7. So I always had my skates at least one/half size smaller than my shoe size (6.5), which allowed some extra space, but not too much. If you have more than one inch left at the end of the toe, then you are probably going to wobble a lot because the skates are going to be too big. Try one/half size smaller since the Jackson%26#039;s run a little large. As long as you don%26#039;t mess up the bottom or scratch the boots, and if they do not fit, you can always return them, but not once the blades have been mounted.





Here%26#039;s some extra tips that you might find useful:


If you can find lambswool, you can pad the toes or use it to take up a little extra growing space. I found mine at local pharmacies and I think I remember actually seeing some lambswool in a Wal-Greens store. But I am not going to swear that it was Wal-Greens because it has been about three months or longer since I saw the lambswool. It can be hard to find, but if you need a little extra padding in the toe area, either to take up a little bit of space or to pad your toe area a little more, lambswool is great, if you can still find it. I%26#039;ll look around a little more and see if I can%26#039;t locate a place that sells lambswool, in case you need it. Padding in the boots does affect the way the skates fit, but since Jackson%26#039;s tend to run large, I think you will be okay for about a year in size 5.5%26#039;s.





I found 2 sites for lambswool located on the Internet. I used to pull off a chunk of lambswool padding and put in the bottom of my toe shoes (for ballet) and I also put a chunk of lambswool padding down into the toe of my ice skates -- I never had to wrap my toes with lambswool, which is what one site illustrates. I am sure there are more places that you can find this product and it is invaluable when helping to pad your toes or prevent blisters on your toes. When I started wearing the custom made ice skates, I also used moleskin which is a stickybacked type of fabric that protected my heel areas from getting blisters and to help pad my heels against a piece of steel that was put into the ice skates as they were being made. These steel plates (no, you never see them because they are covered by the leather of the boot) can cause friction around the heel area and cause you to have major problems with your heels. Ice skating has been known to cause bad bone spurs and calcium buildup on heels that are not well protected when you are strenuously ice skating or skating competatively, as this will require a lot of practice. These bone spurs and calcium deposits can hurt terribly, if you ignore them.


Anyway, these are two tips I have for you that you might want to give some thought to, if your skates are too big or they begin to cause irritation on your feet. Ballet dancers also tend to use these materials because they help protect your feet from a lot of abuse. Just something for you to ponder over if you need answers to questions about your skates causing you some foot pain. And you may be able to find these products locally and not have to order them from the Internet if you should need them. At least you will know what to ask for, should any problems arise.





I hope all this information has been of some help to you. If you need more information, try posting another message in this area, and I will see what I can do to help you with any further questions, should you have any. Best of luck to you, sweetie. :-)



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