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- Oct 25, 2023
Just a weird thing that keeps popping up, and I'm curious what other people's experiences are like...
When I got my first good skates, the guy at the shop measured me and said I should be in wide skates. The results were not good. Over time they caused pain up the ankles/legs and were difficult to control.
When I went to get my current skates, the first shop assumed my foot was wide just by looking at it. Measured it as normal width. The second measured and pronounced me on the edge between normal and wide. To contrast, dance stores that fit pointe shoes and ballroom dance heels have told me that my feet are not wide at all.
Today I wore my old skates for a public skate (for the first time in a year, because I didn't want to dull my newly-sharpened good blades) and could feel the massive difference. The boot leaves so much excess space around my foot and ankle! My foot can move far more than it should be able to. Aside from the lousy blades (so glad I upgraded those), the boots just don't provide much ability for fine control. Meanwhile my husband, with narrow feet in hockey skates, had to loosen his skates early on because he'd tied them too tightly and his forefeet were "curling under".
When we got home I tried squishing my foot with my fingers and it hit me - my foot is incredibly compressible, and doing so doesn't curl my foot under like it did to my husband, it just increases vertical volume slightly. I still have my full footprint on the ground and functioning normally - my bones shift a bit to accommodate it. His feet don't compress at all. My daughter's do.
Perhaps that's why the wide boot was far too wide - if my feet aren't already slightly compressed they will slide to the side and compress when they hit the wall, leaving even more room in the boot and causing my weight to shift unevenly within the boot.
I have been diagnosed with EDS and my daughter likely has it, too. Is this just a thing some people's feet do, or might it be related to the EDS?
How do people with very compressible feet (width-wise) find they need their skates to fit? Do they frequently tend to wear the width they measure or do they tend to go narrower so that the foot fits snugly?
I clearly know what works for me, I'm just curious if there is any sort of trend.
When I got my first good skates, the guy at the shop measured me and said I should be in wide skates. The results were not good. Over time they caused pain up the ankles/legs and were difficult to control.
When I went to get my current skates, the first shop assumed my foot was wide just by looking at it. Measured it as normal width. The second measured and pronounced me on the edge between normal and wide. To contrast, dance stores that fit pointe shoes and ballroom dance heels have told me that my feet are not wide at all.
Today I wore my old skates for a public skate (for the first time in a year, because I didn't want to dull my newly-sharpened good blades) and could feel the massive difference. The boot leaves so much excess space around my foot and ankle! My foot can move far more than it should be able to. Aside from the lousy blades (so glad I upgraded those), the boots just don't provide much ability for fine control. Meanwhile my husband, with narrow feet in hockey skates, had to loosen his skates early on because he'd tied them too tightly and his forefeet were "curling under".
When we got home I tried squishing my foot with my fingers and it hit me - my foot is incredibly compressible, and doing so doesn't curl my foot under like it did to my husband, it just increases vertical volume slightly. I still have my full footprint on the ground and functioning normally - my bones shift a bit to accommodate it. His feet don't compress at all. My daughter's do.
Perhaps that's why the wide boot was far too wide - if my feet aren't already slightly compressed they will slide to the side and compress when they hit the wall, leaving even more room in the boot and causing my weight to shift unevenly within the boot.
I have been diagnosed with EDS and my daughter likely has it, too. Is this just a thing some people's feet do, or might it be related to the EDS?
How do people with very compressible feet (width-wise) find they need their skates to fit? Do they frequently tend to wear the width they measure or do they tend to go narrower so that the foot fits snugly?
I clearly know what works for me, I'm just curious if there is any sort of trend.
