hi Guys
i´ve been reading a lot in this interesting forum, and now i´ve signed up to gather some advice ond opinios.
We live in Germany, i have 2 kids figure skating, a girl 8 yrs and a boy 5 yrs.
My daugther is on her 3rd season, although the first one was only a few weeks due to corona lockdowns.
She can do all single jumps, is starting to learn axel (but under rotates so far), has problems with the sitting pirouette.
Her size is 140 cm, which would be 4.5 foot and her weigth is 27 Kilos, which would be approx. 59 punds.
She trains 6 days a week, 2 hrs on ice, and once or twice off ice training.
As a beginner she started out in Wifa Shoes, thats a softer leather boot from Austria.
The second season we went to a fitting shop, they recommended Risport Rf Pro 3, which she had in her 2nd season.
Now for the 3rd season she tried both Risport Rf3 Pro 3 and Edea Chorus in the shop, and she immediately liked edea, so the fitter said, we can get that one. The Blade is MK Professional Light.
She did a good season on that boot, i think, but towards the end she had pain and something like a blister on the achilles tendon.
Now my question/problem: Our Trainer hates edea shoes. She was always against that boot, she wants all kids to wear the Wifa boots, but we don´t like the boot and the quality.
The Trainer thinks, the boot is too hard for my daugthers weigth and Skill, and that the stiff boot ist the reason, thats she can not go deep enough in the sitting spin.
That she is working with her feet against the hard shoes without succeeding.
And without that spin, she can´t have her own skating freestyle program.
just now we got a used Risport Electra light, which is a lighter boot. my daughter is trying it, but she is scared to jump now, because the boot feels less supportive and she is used to edea now.
I also ordered a Edea overture without blades for comparison, that one is supposed to be less stiff than edea chorus, but doesn´t seem much softer to us, although she didn´t try it on ice.
I don´t know what to do now.
I think, the fitting shop we went to may have sold us the wrong boots, but now she´s been skating most of her "career" so far in hard boots. I don´t know, if and how we can switch.
i could try to find another store further away, that also fits.
Any ideas and advice is very appreciated!
Thanks!
i´ve been reading a lot in this interesting forum, and now i´ve signed up to gather some advice ond opinios.
We live in Germany, i have 2 kids figure skating, a girl 8 yrs and a boy 5 yrs.
My daugther is on her 3rd season, although the first one was only a few weeks due to corona lockdowns.
She can do all single jumps, is starting to learn axel (but under rotates so far), has problems with the sitting pirouette.
Her size is 140 cm, which would be 4.5 foot and her weigth is 27 Kilos, which would be approx. 59 punds.
She trains 6 days a week, 2 hrs on ice, and once or twice off ice training.
As a beginner she started out in Wifa Shoes, thats a softer leather boot from Austria.
The second season we went to a fitting shop, they recommended Risport Rf Pro 3, which she had in her 2nd season.
Now for the 3rd season she tried both Risport Rf3 Pro 3 and Edea Chorus in the shop, and she immediately liked edea, so the fitter said, we can get that one. The Blade is MK Professional Light.
She did a good season on that boot, i think, but towards the end she had pain and something like a blister on the achilles tendon.
Now my question/problem: Our Trainer hates edea shoes. She was always against that boot, she wants all kids to wear the Wifa boots, but we don´t like the boot and the quality.
The Trainer thinks, the boot is too hard for my daugthers weigth and Skill, and that the stiff boot ist the reason, thats she can not go deep enough in the sitting spin.
That she is working with her feet against the hard shoes without succeeding.
And without that spin, she can´t have her own skating freestyle program.
just now we got a used Risport Electra light, which is a lighter boot. my daughter is trying it, but she is scared to jump now, because the boot feels less supportive and she is used to edea now.
I also ordered a Edea overture without blades for comparison, that one is supposed to be less stiff than edea chorus, but doesn´t seem much softer to us, although she didn´t try it on ice.
I don´t know what to do now.
I think, the fitting shop we went to may have sold us the wrong boots, but now she´s been skating most of her "career" so far in hard boots. I don´t know, if and how we can switch.
i could try to find another store further away, that also fits.
Any ideas and advice is very appreciated!
Thanks!
