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- Nov 24, 2019
Hello everyone!
I'm in my late teens, and for most of my childhood I did competitive figure skating. I've always been flat footed, but that was never an issue (I have always worn Jackson boots). When I was 13, I had grown out of my Jackson Freestyle, and so I got a new boot, this time Jackson Finesse. They were fitted to my foot in the store (put in the oven and even had the ankles popped out), and everything seemed perfect. I was skating about 6 times a week at that time, so I had no trouble breaking them in. But from the very beginning, I had this intense pain in my arches after only a few minutes of skating. It was unrelated to breaking them in, and only got worse the more I skated. This has got to be one of the most painful things I have ever experienced, and it's like a brutal cramp that just encompasses the entire inner part of my foot, and only subsides when I take the boots off. It's awful.
I continued to skate for a few months, and the boots were completely broken in, but that arch pain never went away. I frequently left practices in tears, or even left early. This got so bad that I began to dread skating, and I quit.
It has been 5 years and I think about how much I miss skating every single day. For the past 5 years, every winter, I get my hopes up thinking I can skate again. I have tried various insoles, including Superfeet. I have tried cut-out cookies for arch support. Different lacing techniques, tighter laces, looser laces. I've even tried different socks, and putting gels over my arches. Nothing helps, and after precisely 6 minutes of being on the ice today, I was wincing with every stroke.
If anyone has any ideas what this could be, or how to help me, I would be so very thankful. I'm considering buying a new pair of skates (Edea, maybe?), but I'm scared this is a problem that isn't just these boots (although I never had the issue before). Please, if you can, help me. I miss skating so much.
I'm in my late teens, and for most of my childhood I did competitive figure skating. I've always been flat footed, but that was never an issue (I have always worn Jackson boots). When I was 13, I had grown out of my Jackson Freestyle, and so I got a new boot, this time Jackson Finesse. They were fitted to my foot in the store (put in the oven and even had the ankles popped out), and everything seemed perfect. I was skating about 6 times a week at that time, so I had no trouble breaking them in. But from the very beginning, I had this intense pain in my arches after only a few minutes of skating. It was unrelated to breaking them in, and only got worse the more I skated. This has got to be one of the most painful things I have ever experienced, and it's like a brutal cramp that just encompasses the entire inner part of my foot, and only subsides when I take the boots off. It's awful.
I continued to skate for a few months, and the boots were completely broken in, but that arch pain never went away. I frequently left practices in tears, or even left early. This got so bad that I began to dread skating, and I quit.
It has been 5 years and I think about how much I miss skating every single day. For the past 5 years, every winter, I get my hopes up thinking I can skate again. I have tried various insoles, including Superfeet. I have tried cut-out cookies for arch support. Different lacing techniques, tighter laces, looser laces. I've even tried different socks, and putting gels over my arches. Nothing helps, and after precisely 6 minutes of being on the ice today, I was wincing with every stroke.
If anyone has any ideas what this could be, or how to help me, I would be so very thankful. I'm considering buying a new pair of skates (Edea, maybe?), but I'm scared this is a problem that isn't just these boots (although I never had the issue before). Please, if you can, help me. I miss skating so much.