Required apology for clogging this forum up with my issues:
Okay so to start off with sorry for making another boot thread, this issue has honestly been racking my brain for the past couple of days.
Introduction with how far I have gotten skating:
I am an 18-19 year old male who weights 165lbs at 6 foot 1 and has been skating for around 3-4 weeks seriously, I have gotten to skate uk level 5, working towards level 6 and beyond the main issue there has been learning backwards crossovers as a block but that is besides the point. I have began basic jumps such as bunny hop and 3-jump, I have been told by a few people a lot more experienced than me that my jump has good height and is coming along in terms of quality. I can just about do 1 foot spins however the entry is rough. Then for the last piece of information I have been going skating around 8-16 hours per week depending on session availability.
My Actual Issue:
So to start for the first week I had used some cheap (sub 40 pounds cheap) which obviously did not have any ankle support which everyone commented on especially the proshop not even in a terms of trying to sell me a new boot but just as some advice.
Then following for the next couple of weeks until now I had been sold a jackson marquis (support rating apparently 45), these I felt were a lot more comfortable in both fit and the support they gave made me feel so much more comfortable even doing basic activities. I was told in the shop these would good until just before an axel and should last me long enough.
After my boot began to break down at the heel where the sole began peeling up and the sides had began long creasing along near the ankle again. I was told this was not normal for a boot of this level and they should have held up much better and they apologised profusely and said they would contact their jackson distributer because this was more a case of a factory fault.
My actual issue begins here, they believe in the proshop the modern day equivalent to the marquis is the artiste which only has a support rating of 25, I don't know if this is simply a change in way they are rated by jackson as the marquis are older boots being rated 45 on another scale. I had no issues with how hard the boots were and in fact preferred that feeling so I don't really want to go to a softer boot.
I was wondering if it was as I said above and it really is a different stiffness scale and if that is not the case what should I do?
Many Thanks for reading this.
Side note: then again I have read on here the stiffness of the marquis is a 10 vs what is said on other places to add even more confusion
Okay so to start off with sorry for making another boot thread, this issue has honestly been racking my brain for the past couple of days.
Introduction with how far I have gotten skating:
I am an 18-19 year old male who weights 165lbs at 6 foot 1 and has been skating for around 3-4 weeks seriously, I have gotten to skate uk level 5, working towards level 6 and beyond the main issue there has been learning backwards crossovers as a block but that is besides the point. I have began basic jumps such as bunny hop and 3-jump, I have been told by a few people a lot more experienced than me that my jump has good height and is coming along in terms of quality. I can just about do 1 foot spins however the entry is rough. Then for the last piece of information I have been going skating around 8-16 hours per week depending on session availability.
My Actual Issue:
So to start for the first week I had used some cheap (sub 40 pounds cheap) which obviously did not have any ankle support which everyone commented on especially the proshop not even in a terms of trying to sell me a new boot but just as some advice.
Then following for the next couple of weeks until now I had been sold a jackson marquis (support rating apparently 45), these I felt were a lot more comfortable in both fit and the support they gave made me feel so much more comfortable even doing basic activities. I was told in the shop these would good until just before an axel and should last me long enough.
After my boot began to break down at the heel where the sole began peeling up and the sides had began long creasing along near the ankle again. I was told this was not normal for a boot of this level and they should have held up much better and they apologised profusely and said they would contact their jackson distributer because this was more a case of a factory fault.
My actual issue begins here, they believe in the proshop the modern day equivalent to the marquis is the artiste which only has a support rating of 25, I don't know if this is simply a change in way they are rated by jackson as the marquis are older boots being rated 45 on another scale. I had no issues with how hard the boots were and in fact preferred that feeling so I don't really want to go to a softer boot.
I was wondering if it was as I said above and it really is a different stiffness scale and if that is not the case what should I do?
Many Thanks for reading this.
Side note: then again I have read on here the stiffness of the marquis is a 10 vs what is said on other places to add even more confusion
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