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

Hi guys, it's Lara from Everglides. If you guys follow us on Instagram or Facebook, you may already know that we recently launched our brand new online fitting service that allows us to fit anyone, anywhere in the world virtually. So this video stems off of the online fittings really well because we have definitely found that once we've done the fitting and the skates get sent out, a lot of our customers will then need a follow-up video, FaceTime, just to make sure that they are doing things right. So today's video is about how to lace your ice skates. So I've got three of the main ice skates here. I have Adia, Jackson, and Rise Sport, and I'm gonna lace all of them onto my feet and just show you how you should be, or just a way of lacing your ice skates onto your feet. Brands of boots are laced differently, and it's very important that you know how to correctly lace the boots that you have because if you don't lace them or you over-tighten them in certain areas and things like that, you are gonna cause them to break very quickly. So I'm gonna jump in and just start lacing these boots on my feet. Step number one is making sure that we loosen off the laces on your boots enough so that we can get your feet in really comfortably. You take your boots and pull the laces out so that you have sort of two to three inches worth of lace either side. You're then gonna keep going all the way down until you reach the toe box. Then what you're gonna do is pull your tongue up and back, open your boots out, and they're ready to now put on your feet. Try and avoid only loosening your skates partway and flexing your tongue forward. This can cause damage to the tongue, cause it to split or break very quickly, and it doesn't allow the toe box to open wide enough to get the widest part, the ball of your foot, through into the section that it needs to sit. Now that we have the boot opened correctly, we're gonna place it on our feet. Step two is removing any jeans or leggings from the ice skate or from the area where your ice skate is gonna do up. Anything left inside the ice skate is gonna cause rubbing and irritation. Step three is making sure your heel is sat in the right place. So now we've got the skate on, just have a moment just to have a little bit of a wiggle. Make sure that your foot is right against the bottom of the skate. You can even tap your ice skate depending on what your blade is resting on just to make sure that your heel is fully in the back of the cup of the ice skate here. What you're gonna do next is then just give the tongue a little bit of a pull up just to make sure that it hasn't slipped down into the toe box whilst you were putting your skate on. Once you know that that's all pulled up, just push the tongue in nice and flat against your leg. Really important that you allow your foot to completely relax inside the boot. If you hold your foot at an angle or you hold your foot a little bit with tension, you're gonna end up with a big gap down the back here. So you wanna make sure when you have your skates on, you keep your foot up on the back of the blade, but you relax your entire leg and just let your whole foot relax in there. Because again, we're gonna be lacing the boot around the foot and we don't want to be irritating any tendon. We're gonna start with the toe box area then. So all the way down here. So with the toe box area, you don't need to be cranking this up too tight. Because this is where your toes and the ball of your foot is sitting. We'd recommend these first six holes. So one, two, three, and then four, five, six. There's just enough so that they're nice and neat and tucked away. But there's no real like pressure in there. Nothing really kind of pulling the toe box or pinching the toes. So this next section that we're going to be doing is really important for making sure the foot gets driven into the back of the boot. And that's where you're gonna get the control from your ice skate. So we wanna make sure that we're doing this firm, but we don't want it again. We don't want it tight. We don't wanna over tighten this section because it's gonna cause cramping and things like that. So when we say tight or firm, this is what we mean. So you wanna take your laces. And once you've kind of tucked them in like we did for the first three, you're then gonna provide an additional extra little pull. And that's enough. That's just resting against the foot in there and just providing that nice little bit of firmness that we need. So again, we're gonna take the lace. I tend to wrap it around my hands like this just to give me an extra little bit to pull on. You're then going to give it a little tug like that just to give it a little bit of firmness. And that is more than enough for what we're needing. Section there are many different ways of being able to do this, but for the interest of this video today, I'm gonna show you a really lovely beginner level way of tying up this section of your boots. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna place a knot here and I'm gonna go through and through again and pull that nice and tight. So it's a really great way, especially if you're not sure how to tie your laces, to pop a little knot there. And it will also just mean that everything stays nice and tight and nice and snug whilst you're skating. Go to the top. It's gonna come round and then you're gonna cross the laces over. So top of the hook, round, cross the laces over. So another way that people do this is they go from bottom to top. So they go this way. Because it has nothing to lock itself against, it can slip through. Whereas when you have this little cross here, it does tend to keep the lace a little bit tighter whilst you're skating. So if you are doing your skates up this way and you find that your skates end up being a little bit loose and you have to get off and tighten them, then potentially try it the other way just because that will provide a little bit more resistance and stop them from slipping. Okay, so this next step is quite simple. It's to tie off your laces. If you do find that you have really a lot of excess lace left over and it's going to create a bow that is a little bit too big. So this, I would say, is a bow that is much too big for ice skating. It will allow your blade to get caught in these loops and cause problems whilst skating. So we want to try and make this bow a little bit smaller. So a really great way of doing this is to take the lace and just hook it back down the hooks again. So you can come up the hooks, go back down until you've used up enough lace so that when you tie the bow, the bow is nice and small and nice and neat and is going to cause as less problems as possible. Okay, so lacing up your D.I.I. skates then. So you're going to follow all the same steps that we just did for the Jacksons right up until this point here, when we get to the hooks. So we're going to, I'm just going to go ahead and put that all on my foot and get right up to the stage where we're then ready to do the hooks and that's where the difference is. And then I'll just explain that and run that through to you guys. So this section of the D.I.I. can be a little bit tricky to get right as a D.I.I. always remain more open at the top. So I'm going to show you what is normal for a D.I.I. and how that looks like so that you guys have some reference and making sure they're not done up too tight or too loose. So you guys should see now like how tight you should have your ice skates. So on a Jackson and a D.I.I. Here's with a D.I.I. If you tighten this top hook and really remove all of this sort of gappingness at the front, what happens is the boots are very quickly begin to crease here and they're not designed to crease. A D.I.I.s are not designed to flex the same way that a Jackson's designed to. The tongues are very soft, they're very supple and they are designed to flex here, not here. In the interest of making sure that everything is covered, I'm going to now just show you how to put on the Rise Sport Electra Lite. The thing is with Rise Sport is it does do up more like a Jackson ankle, but it's not quite as high as Jackson. So let me just go and pop that one on my foot and I will show you. So again, with these hooks, we're going to start over the top and we're going to go round and cross over. Then you hear the difference between the Rise Sport Electra and the Jackson Artiste again. So again, unlike the Adia, the Rise Sport do kind of wrap around the ankle a little bit more snug. So this is the, again, just to kind of reference if you have the Rise Sport boot, how tight it wants to be looking around your foot when you're going to skate in it. So that's really it for how to lace your ice skates. If you have any questions, then please do leave a comment down below, or you can get in touch with us on Instagram or Facebook. To arrange your virtual fitting, then all you need to do is go to www.adia.co.uk.