Hi everyone,
I’m at the end of my tether and I’m hoping someone’s had experience with this and can tell me what’s wrong or what to do!
I’ve been skating for a year and am on my 4th pair of boots. Currently my left boot and blade are perfect but my right boot and blade are messed up somewhere. I’m able to skate in a perfect straight line, although I’ve found that my left hip has to twist in slightly. And I don’t fight my blade that much when it’s sharp but it loses sharpening quickly on the back inside edge until there’s a visible difference in edge height and you can feel it in skating and with your finger on the blade (takes about 9 hours of skating). I can still spin mostly fine (I spin clockwise and on my right foot).
However, when I bend my knee, everything falls inside edge. My knee is forced at an awful angle inward that doesn’t happen off ice and I’m starting to get pain in my knee from it. When I bend my knee into its natural position in the boot, it forces me into a deep outside edge. When I’m actually skating, I find I can get my outside edge but my knee is still twisted in.
My local skate tech has moved the blade inward and outward and we’ve had no luck. The only other thing that I’ve noticed is that the overhang of the boot on the right inside side is much more than the outside side of the same boot and there is a little bit of weird plastic warping (they’re Jackson debuts). The left boot is even on overhang past the sole on both sides.
For additional context, my right leg is my dominant leg and I do everything clockwise. I pronate in both feet but not as much on the right to the point where in my previous 3 boots, I’ve never needed to have the right side adjusted and have not had knee pain. Off ice, my knee tracks normally.
Does anyone know what’s going on?
I’m at the end of my tether and I’m hoping someone’s had experience with this and can tell me what’s wrong or what to do!
I’ve been skating for a year and am on my 4th pair of boots. Currently my left boot and blade are perfect but my right boot and blade are messed up somewhere. I’m able to skate in a perfect straight line, although I’ve found that my left hip has to twist in slightly. And I don’t fight my blade that much when it’s sharp but it loses sharpening quickly on the back inside edge until there’s a visible difference in edge height and you can feel it in skating and with your finger on the blade (takes about 9 hours of skating). I can still spin mostly fine (I spin clockwise and on my right foot).
However, when I bend my knee, everything falls inside edge. My knee is forced at an awful angle inward that doesn’t happen off ice and I’m starting to get pain in my knee from it. When I bend my knee into its natural position in the boot, it forces me into a deep outside edge. When I’m actually skating, I find I can get my outside edge but my knee is still twisted in.
My local skate tech has moved the blade inward and outward and we’ve had no luck. The only other thing that I’ve noticed is that the overhang of the boot on the right inside side is much more than the outside side of the same boot and there is a little bit of weird plastic warping (they’re Jackson debuts). The left boot is even on overhang past the sole on both sides.
For additional context, my right leg is my dominant leg and I do everything clockwise. I pronate in both feet but not as much on the right to the point where in my previous 3 boots, I’ve never needed to have the right side adjusted and have not had knee pain. Off ice, my knee tracks normally.
Does anyone know what’s going on?