In changing your skates in ice skating is it regularly or you can change your skates when your feet gets big?

Question

how do i break the skates so i wont have bloody socks and feet?

Answer 1

It depends. If you are skating to compete than youshould definitly get new ones as soon as they start to bother you. As a skater my coach is always telling me to look after your feet. If something happens to you feet than skating will become very painful. To wear in your skates you can put gards on the blades and walk around inside the house for 5 minutes every day before you go skating again. Also I woulnd recomend you were socks the sock will rub against you skin giving you the blisters. When you get your new skates that will most likely to have skating tights. When they fit you for skates you should ask them what you should do. I they are good they should know. Hope I helped.

Answer 2

You change your skates when they are too small. But you can also change them if they are really marked up and you can afford a new pair. You can break in new skates by putting on hard guards and walking up and down stairs with them on.

Answer 3

Skaters get new boots when they outgrow the ones they have, or when the boots break down.  Broken down boots have large creases on the sides, and usually the skater feels that there isn't enough support around the ankles.  If the blades are still in good shape, and you don't need an upgraded set of blades, you can have your old blades mounted on a new set of boots to save some money.

For breaking in boots, be sure to get them heat molded to your foot when you buy them at the pro shop.  That helps SO much with the breaking in process.  Wear the skates around the house (with the guards on, of course), like when you're watching tv or on the computer.

When you skate, do lots of moves that require good knee bend to help break the boots in, ie. back crossovers, dips & shoot the ducks, sit spins.  Breaking in takes time, but it usually doesn't result in your feet becoming a bloody mess.  You might get a few blisters though.

You can also buy gel pads and bunga pads to help protect your feet against the new boots.

Answer 4

I don't quite understand, when your feet grow, you change skates. If your old skates get ruined or you get tired of them you change skates. But make sure you break them in first of you'll have bloody feet and socks. To break them in(without the blood and stained socks) you can do what many of the others have said, but personally I would just use them a little bit each day. For example, bring your old skates and new ones and skate in the new ones for 10-15 minutes or so, then put the old ones one. Doing that for a week or so should break them in fine.

Answer 5

If you feet grow too much, you'll feel too much pain skating because the boots have to be firmly tied. Only the skater will know when they outgrew their skates. Other times, skates don't last forever, they will be busted if you pound double jumps or higher on them all day eventually.

Top level senior skaters usually change to new skates in 4-6 months.

Now, get bloody feet? That has never happened to me, but I am not idiot in breaking in skates improperly. I agree with suggestions in alternating between the new and the old skates. That way you do break a bit into the new ones but you still salvage a practise.

To accelerate the breaking-in process, wear the new skates at home with the guards on the blades to avoid damaging them. Take them off after 20 minutes or until you feel pain. Since you're just wearing them watching tv or something, you won't get blisters and they will break in faster because you're stil sweating into them. Speaking of which, break them in at home wearing no socks, that way the sweat will mold the leather faster.

This even works with custo skates in my experience, I had a far harder time getting used to the smaller blade than the actual breaking in process of the boot. If done well, you can break in a new pair sompletely in less than 3 weeks.

If you do things right, you should not get blisters, I only got them once as a beginner because my feet weren't used to skates then. When skating, if you start to feel jet pain in the foot, take the boots off and put band-aids on whatever part of the foot needs them. If the skins isn't too cut yet and you still need to skate, do it but you risk worsening the blister and it will take longer to heal. Always bring band-aids when you skate.

Ice Princess isn't the standard of skating experience BTW but the blisters thing could happen if you're dumb enough to compete wearing completely new skates you didn't wear even once before.

Answer 6

It's no fun to have to break in skates all the time but if your foot is growing, it's a necessity. When my daughter was younger I made a point to find used skates so that she wouldn't have to break them in.  Now that she's at a higher level we don't really have that luxury; they're more fitted to her foot and personalized.  It's just something all skaters go through.