- Joined
- Feb 16, 2010
Hi all,
I returned to skating a couple months ago after a couple years off. I posted on this forum about a year or so ago when I was first thinking about coming back to skating, but then didn't get back to skating until now. I probably posted about the phobia and broken bones stuff... my skating history has been terrible.
I have pronation of the right foot because my tendons/muscle/nerves were cut/damaged by surgery and the placement of a metal plate that was allowed to rest on top of my inside ankle bone (plate was removed). Unlike most pronators, I have normal arches, so sticking something in my boot has not proven helpful. Physical therapy was also not helpful. I can't hold a ROE for more than a few seconds, or even just keep my blade flat, because the pronation causes the outer edge to lift up off of the ice as the pronation action shifts weight to the inside edge.
I know that moving my blade inward will help, but the problem is, the shops at both of the local rinks are telling me that a coach has to tell them to do it. I taught skating 20-some years ago (I'm 49), before taking a 17-year break from the ice to live a life, so I am not paying someone $40 just to tell a shop guy to move my blade.
What I would like to know, is what I can say to these guys to get one of them to move my blade?
I am planning to get new boots in a few months if I decide to keep skating "this time around" (will keep same blades). It doesn't make sense to fill a new boot full of re-positioning experimentation holes, when I can do it with this old boot then get the new boot done right on the first try. If I can't resolve the issue of compensating for the pronation while I still have the old boots, I can't get back to doing much on the ice, and if I can't do much, there is no point in buying new boots because I won't need them.
Any suggestions? If I can't get these guys to listen to me, does anyone know of a place around the WDCMA (MD-DC-VA) that won't be so uncooperative?
Thanks.
I returned to skating a couple months ago after a couple years off. I posted on this forum about a year or so ago when I was first thinking about coming back to skating, but then didn't get back to skating until now. I probably posted about the phobia and broken bones stuff... my skating history has been terrible.
I have pronation of the right foot because my tendons/muscle/nerves were cut/damaged by surgery and the placement of a metal plate that was allowed to rest on top of my inside ankle bone (plate was removed). Unlike most pronators, I have normal arches, so sticking something in my boot has not proven helpful. Physical therapy was also not helpful. I can't hold a ROE for more than a few seconds, or even just keep my blade flat, because the pronation causes the outer edge to lift up off of the ice as the pronation action shifts weight to the inside edge.
I know that moving my blade inward will help, but the problem is, the shops at both of the local rinks are telling me that a coach has to tell them to do it. I taught skating 20-some years ago (I'm 49), before taking a 17-year break from the ice to live a life, so I am not paying someone $40 just to tell a shop guy to move my blade.
What I would like to know, is what I can say to these guys to get one of them to move my blade?
I am planning to get new boots in a few months if I decide to keep skating "this time around" (will keep same blades). It doesn't make sense to fill a new boot full of re-positioning experimentation holes, when I can do it with this old boot then get the new boot done right on the first try. If I can't resolve the issue of compensating for the pronation while I still have the old boots, I can't get back to doing much on the ice, and if I can't do much, there is no point in buying new boots because I won't need them.
Any suggestions? If I can't get these guys to listen to me, does anyone know of a place around the WDCMA (MD-DC-VA) that won't be so uncooperative?
Thanks.