- Joined
- Jun 28, 2021
Hello, I’m a beginner/high beginner adult skater (working on scratch spin, have a decent waltz jump, and a hit or miss half flip) that takes a 30 minute LTS lesson once a week and due to local rink schedules during COVID only gets to do 1-2 hours of on ice practice a week outside that.
I realized a couple months ago that I would need a new skate setup soon because I was finally starting to progress past what my beginner skates are rated for, but I didn’t actually go in until last week. I’m currently in Jackson Elles with the stock blade that I bought when I was just learning swizzles/crossovers/etc. I went to see a local skate tech that specializes in figure skates to get an upgrade and we settled on Jackson Debut boots with MK Professional blades to get me through my single jumps. I’ve just started trying to learn salchow/toe loop in lessons, but have currently been sort of marking/walking through them because I don’t trust my current boots to support the full jump and I don’t want to risk injuring myself.
I was satisfied with my decision to upgrade to the debut boots and like the fit of Jacksons, but the issue is that I got a call today and there was a miscommunication with Jackson and apparently the debuts are currently completely sold out in my size and won’t be back in stock until approximately mid august.
My current options are to just suck it up and wait for the debuts to come in in a month and just not practice much in the meantime, or choose a different boot that wasn’t the first choice and risk wasting my money and time.
What should I do?
about me and my feet:
•5’3”
•~125lbs
• 29 yrs old
•Greek/Celtic foot type?- 2nd toe longer than 1st, 3rd toe equal to 1st, 4th toe barely shorter than 1st, 5th toe drastically shorter than the rest
•Med/high with some pronation issues
•Slightly stronger ankles than average due to doing ballet/Irish dance recreationally for over 20 years
•weaker than expected knee bend due to naturally hyperextended knees and subsequent history of knee surgery several years ago
•narrow heel with more medium width ball of foot so a split width option feels the best out of the boots I’ve tries
•live on the east coast of the US
The shop stocks Jackson, Riedell, Risport, Graf, and Edea. He had me try on Riedell (felt god awful and shoved my 5th toe into the side of my 4th toe), Risport (the only ones in stock in my length felt way too wide in both the toe box and heel and felt so much less stiff than even my broken down Elles so it was hard to judge if I really liked them), and a too stiff style Jackson just to test if I liked the fit which I did. The options he gave as alternatives that would come in quicker than the debuts were a model by Graf which I’ve never tried on and don’t really know anything about, or a Jackson Premiere which he wouldn’t put me in without doing something to break them in some first because neither of us want me to be overbooted. I believe he originally mentioned that Risports also currently have a fairly long lead time on getting boots in due to pandemic supply chain issues/import time.
I’m open to all of your expert opinions even if the best option is to just not skate much/not jump until I can get my original boot pick in.
I realized a couple months ago that I would need a new skate setup soon because I was finally starting to progress past what my beginner skates are rated for, but I didn’t actually go in until last week. I’m currently in Jackson Elles with the stock blade that I bought when I was just learning swizzles/crossovers/etc. I went to see a local skate tech that specializes in figure skates to get an upgrade and we settled on Jackson Debut boots with MK Professional blades to get me through my single jumps. I’ve just started trying to learn salchow/toe loop in lessons, but have currently been sort of marking/walking through them because I don’t trust my current boots to support the full jump and I don’t want to risk injuring myself.
I was satisfied with my decision to upgrade to the debut boots and like the fit of Jacksons, but the issue is that I got a call today and there was a miscommunication with Jackson and apparently the debuts are currently completely sold out in my size and won’t be back in stock until approximately mid august.
My current options are to just suck it up and wait for the debuts to come in in a month and just not practice much in the meantime, or choose a different boot that wasn’t the first choice and risk wasting my money and time.
What should I do?
about me and my feet:
•5’3”
•~125lbs
• 29 yrs old
•Greek/Celtic foot type?- 2nd toe longer than 1st, 3rd toe equal to 1st, 4th toe barely shorter than 1st, 5th toe drastically shorter than the rest
•Med/high with some pronation issues
•Slightly stronger ankles than average due to doing ballet/Irish dance recreationally for over 20 years
•weaker than expected knee bend due to naturally hyperextended knees and subsequent history of knee surgery several years ago
•narrow heel with more medium width ball of foot so a split width option feels the best out of the boots I’ve tries
•live on the east coast of the US
The shop stocks Jackson, Riedell, Risport, Graf, and Edea. He had me try on Riedell (felt god awful and shoved my 5th toe into the side of my 4th toe), Risport (the only ones in stock in my length felt way too wide in both the toe box and heel and felt so much less stiff than even my broken down Elles so it was hard to judge if I really liked them), and a too stiff style Jackson just to test if I liked the fit which I did. The options he gave as alternatives that would come in quicker than the debuts were a model by Graf which I’ve never tried on and don’t really know anything about, or a Jackson Premiere which he wouldn’t put me in without doing something to break them in some first because neither of us want me to be overbooted. I believe he originally mentioned that Risports also currently have a fairly long lead time on getting boots in due to pandemic supply chain issues/import time.
I’m open to all of your expert opinions even if the best option is to just not skate much/not jump until I can get my original boot pick in.