How to lace figure skates | Risport, Jackson, Edea | Step by Step |EVERGLIDES

Hi guys, I'm Lara from everguide. If you follow us on Instagram or Facebook you may already know that we recently launched our new online fitting service which allows us to fit virtually anyone anywhere in the world, so this video really comes out of online fittings. Well, because we've definitely found that once we've tested and shipped the

skates

, many of our customers will need an in-person follow-up video just to make sure they're doing things right, so today's video is about how tie your ice

skates

so I have three of the main skits here I have a day

jackson

and rice fort and I'm going to tie them all to my feet and just show you how you should be or just a way to tie your ice skates to your feet , brands of boots

lace

differently and it is very important that you know how to properly

lace

the boots that you have because if you don't lace them or you overtighten them in certain areas and things like that you are going to cause them to break very quickly, jump in and start to tie these boots on my feet.

Step number one is to make sure we loosen the laces on your boots enough so we can get your feet really comfortable. Now take your boots and take out the laces so that you have two to three inches of lace on each side. Then you will continue going down until you reach the toe and then what are you going to do? is to pull the tongue up and back, open the boots and they are ready to put on your feet. Try to avoid only loosening the skates partially and flexing the tongue forward, this can damage the tongue and cause it to split or break very quickly and does not allow the toe to open enough to pass the widest part of the ball of the foot towards the section you need to sit on.

Now that we have the boot open correctly, we will place it on our feet. The second

step

is to remove your jeans or leggings from the ice skate or the area where the skate will be attached. Anything left inside the ice skate will cause rubbing and irritation, so the third

step

is to make sure the heel is placed in place. right place, so now we have the skate on, just take a moment to move it around a little bit, make sure your foot is right against the bottom of the skate, you can even hit your ice skate depending on what your blade is. resting just to make sure your heel is completely on the back of the ice skate cup.

Here what you're going to do next is just pull your tongue up a little bit just to make sure that it's not You didn't slip on your toe while you were putting on your skate. Once you know everything is up, just push the tab in nice and flat against your leg. It is very important that you allow your foot to relax completely inside the boot if you hold your foot at an angle or hold it a little with tension, you will end up with a big gap in the back, so you want to make sure that when you have the skates positions, keep your foot up. back of the blade, but you relax the whole leg and just let the whole foot relax there because again we're going to tie the boot around the foot and we don't want to irritate any tendons, starting with the toe area. then all the way to here, so with the toe area you don't need to tighten it too much because this is where your toes and the ball of your foot sit.

We recommend these first six holes, so one two. three and then four five six just enough to make them nice and clean and hidden, but there's no real pressure there, um, nothing really like pulling on the toe or pinching the toes, so in the next section we go a What we're doing is really important to make sure that your foot goes into the back of the boot and that's where you're going to get control of your ice skates, so we want to make sure that we're doing this firmly, but we do not do it. We don't want it again, we don't want it tight, we don't want to tighten this section too much because it will cause cramping and things like that, so when we say tight or firm, this is what we mean, so you want to take it. your laces and once you've got them tucked in like we did with the first three, then you're going to provide a little extra pull and that's enough, just rest against the foot there, um, and just provide that nice little bit. of firmness that we need so again we are going to take the cord.

I tend to wrap it around my hands like this just to give me a little bit more to pull on, then you'll give it a little tug like this just to give it a little firmness and that's more than enough for what we need, so in the next section there's a lot different ways you can do this, but for the sake of this video today I'm going to show you a really lovely, beginner level way to tie this section of your boots, so what we're going to do is place a knot here and I'm going to Go over and over and tighten it well. so it's a really great way, especially if you're not sure how to tie your laces to get a little knot in there and it'll also mean that everything stays nice and tight and comfortable while you're skating, go to the top. you're going to twist and then you're going to cross the laces so the top of the hook goes through the laces so another way that people do this is they go from the bottom up so they go this way because they don't has nothing to block. you can slide through it, whereas when you have this little cross here it tends to keep the lace a little bit tighter as you skate, so if you're doing your states this way and you find that your skates end up being a little bit loose and you have You'd rather take them off and tighten them and then try another way just because that will provide a little more resistance and prevent them from slipping, so the next step is pretty simple: tying your laces.

If you find that you have too much lace left over and it will create a loop that is a little too big, then this, I would say, is a loop that is too big for ice skating, it will allow your sword to get caught in these loops and cause problems when skating. , so we want to try to make this bow a little bit smaller, so a great way to do that is to take the cord and just hook it back onto the hooks so you can run. go up the hooks, go back down until you've used enough lace so that when you tie the bow, the bow is nice and small and nice and neat and will cause as little trouble as possible, okay, so tying your ice skates is an idea.

You're going to follow the same steps we just followed for the Jacksons up to this point when we get to the hooks, so I'm going to go ahead and put all that on my feet and do it right. to the stage where we're ready to do the hooks and that's where the difference is and then I'll just explain that to you and explain it to you so this section of the deer can be a little bit complicated to understand correctly. As a deer always stays more open at the top, so I'm going to show you what is normal for a deer and what it looks like so you have some reference and make sure they are not too tight or too loose.

Okay, so you should see now how tight you should have your ice skates, so in a

jackson

and an idea here is an idea if you tighten this top hook and you really eliminate all these kind of gaps in the front, what happens? The boots start to wrinkle very quickly here and are not designed to wrinkle. Ideas aren't designed for flex the way Jackson's are designed for reeds. They're very soft, they're very flexible, and they're designed to flex here. here in order to make sure everything is covered, now I'm going to show you how to put the rice for electra light.

The thing is that with Rye Sport it stands up more like a Jackson ankle, um, but it's not quite. as tall as jackson, so let me go and put it on my foot and I'll show you again, with these hooks we're going to start from the top and we're going to go around and cross showing you here the difference between the rice sport electra and the uh jackson artist again, unlike the idea that the Rye Sport wraps around the ankle a little tighter, so this is again just kind of a reference if you have the right sports boot. how tight it wants to be looking around your foot when you go skating with it, so that's really all there is to how to lace your ice skates.

If you have any questions, please leave a comment below or you can get in touch. with us on instagram or facebook to organize your virtual try-on, then all you need to do is go to www