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mako II skate holder snap.. watching a good vid and i came across it. ff to around 1:05.....but the whole vid is funny

that might be true. dunno what constitutes cool for youth>college...outside of cage, cage color or hang. (my son is 1of 2 kids on the team that doesn't have a white cage..lol) i guess these alien looking skates could be perceived as uncool from a kids/teens... unless it's just a brand thing..which is lol...my son won't drink the kirkland brand vitamin water but he swears by the original vitamin brand version. pretty sure they're made for costco by vitamin water. marketing/brands and consumer psychology is pretty amazing..

2 years of peewee and 1 year of bantam youth hockey only yielded me seeing 2 other pairs. and one pair was at a clinic. i don't think mako is getting to the youth the way they should....nor do i think they care.

has anybody stretched their mako's to make them 1/2 size larger? can this even be done?

i just looked at the steel very carefully and this is in fact think my son's problem...the toe is very rockered now ty smcgreg for pointing me in this direction

thank you. i never thought of this. and it could very well be the problem. they've been sharpened quite a bit since july, and it only recently started happening. he also had a couple of bad sharpening's during that time and they had to be re-done. i'd say we have 20+ on them and i noticed that they're pretty mucked up . i've also noticed that just recently they can't seem to hold an edge either.

maybe this is a pitch problem? if it is, why is it just happening now?

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my pee wee son has been skating on the makos since july. what i recently noticed is that he seems to be stumbling more the past few games. at first it was due to ice conditions and the edge on the blade, but now i'm not sure that it was the only problem. i had them do almost a 3/8 hollow and it still happened. is it possible that the boots are breaking down? or maybe not being in an aggressive enough skating position?,..he hunches too much being a taller pee wee...when he gets low and bends his knees he's one of the quickest on his team. but he doesn't always do this. also..he's a size 7.5 pushing 8 sneaker and he's still wears a 5EE skate..i'm waiting for the day he says, it doesn't fit or it creates a problem for him..and it hasn't happened yet. maybe it's because the skates aren't tied tight enough?.. i don't know what the root of the problem is, but it has happened more as he tried to increase his quickness and speed...getting feedback from him is still hard to do as to "why" things are going down like they are. also,... almost 15 games into the season and i haven;t seen any other kids wearing makos.

still going strong w/ size 5 EE and my son is pushing a size 8w sneaker. the skates have obviously loosened up for him w/ clinics, but he hasn't been sktking 4 times a week yet, and i dunno if he will have any problems like people have encountered here, but he likes them tight, and he wanted another pair for his next size......we're on the clock with this size..so much so that i had to buy adult size 6 EE to have as a quick backup........it pains me....... even on sale at $399...

my son first tested these out at a stick and puck session. things seemed to go okay, but he then wanted to use them in an euro skills clinic for 2hrs instead of his older easton skates. the kid was falling all over the place trying to keep up. i hope this doesn't continue

what is the bake time for this skate? do i set the oven for 200 and when it reaches that turn it off when i put the skates in? or put both in and literally bake them w/o turning the oven off for up to 16 minutes?

has anybody seen any youth travel or high school kids use this skate? my area is pretty wealthy and i've still only seen the skate once. bauer seemed to be on over 90% of the kids

can anyone else confirm this as well?....

does EE in an 04 easton z-air comp..translate into an EE for the mako line..and is the sizing =