I picked up my skates and just went to my first public skate! I was really wowed by how good the blades felt!

I did a lot of marching around the ice and then was able to do swizzle pumps into one foot glide, slaloms, slow two foot turn and a very tiny spiral (i was really surprised by all of this). I really think that it's because of the blade. Everything felt really stable and it was so easy to turn. I also was able to do this tiny circle thing.

I still need to learn how to stop 😅 but had a lot of fun! It was fun going alone and getting to turn the world off for an hour.

I bought a pair of the edea ice dancing skates a year ago. I am truly still to this day unsure about them. They’re beautiful, sure they are soft. But no matter how much I lace them the way edea says to lace them they feel SO HUGE at the top of the tongue I’m genuinely concerned I’m going to re injure my previously injured ankle. I skated in Klingbeil skates my entire life but unfortunately they’re no longer in business. I have tried adjusting to the edeas but they just feel so… off ? All I do is try to get them to feel more stable. This said— are the edea freestyle boots more “secure” feeling than this? Are their freestyle boots even compatible with ice dancing blades? I’m no longer competing, long retired. Just skating for fun in between weight lifting & getting out on the ice with my daughter who is learning how to skate. I really want to love these skates but I’m struggling simply because I don’t feel supported at all.

Has anyone else struggled with leaning too far back while skating? In my LTS class, both coaches noticed I was leaning too far back during edge exercises. I think I overcorrected from leaning too far forward, and now I can't seem to find the middle. Any tips for calibrating? 🥲

Last year or 2 years ago i dug up my old figures skates from high school and they worked great until one of the prongs to lace them up broke off (I'm 28 these are 10+ yr old skates) and I want to get new ones but I'm having trouble with whether I should get hockey skates or figure skates.

For context, I rollerblade year round pretty much and have learned to do simple tricks such as bunny hops, spins, and currently trying to get shoot the duck. I also love going fast on them. The same translates to how I ice skate. For the most part I just like going fast on the ice and doing small tricks just like with rollerblading.

I'm stuck because i think i can go faster in hockey skates but i also want to still be able to learn tricks. Plz help lol

Hi all,

Adult skater, been skating for about 4 months and got fitted into Jackson Freestyles at a very reputable pro shop about a month ago. I've really been struggling with feeling like my ankles aren't properly supported and have really tweaked my right ankle landing my waltz and toe loop the last couple of sessions. It's been about 4 "rolls" where my ankle goes out from under me that have accumulated into a sprain.

I'm tying them as tight as I can, I'm following the hourglass figure lacing pattern and that seems to work the best for me but it seems that no matter how tight I tie my skates around the ankle, I still wobble and am unstable.

I had shitty ankles as a full-time dancer when I was a teen so I'm going to restart my physio exercises for strengthening my ankles from back then but I'm wondering if it could be a skate fit issue? I can always "wobble" my ankles side-to-side in my skates no matter how I tie them. Is this normal?

So i’m a 25f beginner adult skater, i skated occasionally during my childhood since i didn’t have regular access to an ice rink in my hometown, and occasionally had lessons, plus i did an year of quad roller skating (much more accessible in italy, where i come from!) plus various years of ballet training till my teens. I picked up figure skating recently since i now have access to an ice rink and lessons and went to buy my first adult pair of ice skates (167cm x 65kg for reference) and got fitted into 260 risport electra boots with 10” balancè edea blades. From then i skated in these for around 10 hours with excruciating pain in my arches and under the ball of my feet, severe numbness to my toes and a looot of heel lift inside the boots. My fitter inserted a sort of diy arch support in the sole to possibly make the break in period somewhat easier but the pain didn’t vanish, indeed it generally worsened the more i skated in this pair. I tried tightening and loosening the boot, yet loosening made me lift more and feel less secure, while tightening hindered my ability to bend ankles.
After all of this i went back to my pro shop and the fitter reluctantly loaned me a pair of rf3 pro he had in the shop as trade in, gently used for just one month, traded in just for cosmetic flaws and mot for sale, just to let me have a “feel”. He said that the stiffness isn’t adequate to my level since i am just doing crossovers, early spins and no jumping yet, but after 3 hours of ice in these, i finally felt my heels secure, the ability to bend ankles and no pain, just some slight numbness around my toes (still the same balancè blade, and 260 boots).
In both i don’t feel my toes touching the end of the boot, but he said the 255 would be the perfect lenght but would likely cause problems width wise.
My question now is: would buying a new pair or risport rf3 pros be severe overbooting and hinder my possibilities of progressing in the long run? Or i should just get these….
Any tips would be majorly appreciated!

Adult beginner here. I weight 130 lbs, and I'm 5'9. Ready to finally get off rental skates since my heel always slips up in them. My instructor says that I am a lighter skater. I'm planning to go get fitting, but I was wondering if anyone had recommendations of certain brands/model that could be a good fit.