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  1. Leif
    I prefer wider unwaxed laces, the extra width makes them easier to grip and causes less discomfort in the hands. They also tend to slip less in the eyelets. The default Bauer laces are narrow and soft, horrible, no idea about Trues.
  2. Leif
    Even though I have Bauer customs, not Trues, I think the question is relevant. My understanding is that custom skates are designed to be a close fit, to remove what most people call negative space, or empty space (which I think is a clearer description). Anyway, I have had sore toes, where the sides of my toes rub against the sides of the skates. Is this normal? I discovered that if I wore soft wool socks, not only does this stop the rubbing (or more accurately, the discomfort from rubbing), but my feet are warmer.
  3. Leif
    Sk8Stk: I don’t have the knowledge to comment on most of your post, but your suggestion that some people pay a significant sum of money and want the skate to not fit is bizarre. Are you really asking us to believe that? It’s possible they think they should fit from the word go, and aren’t willing to have them adjusted. As an aside, socks make a difference. I got pain today when wearing thin cheap socks, and none when wearing wool skiing socks, I think the latter are softer and warmer.
  4. Leif
    The originals ones had poor durability, so no, I prefer the new ones. And I like the padding. To be honest in Custom skates I’d rather have basic lightly padded insoles, as the skate base is moulded to your foot, but the standard insoles are too thin and the rivet heads cause discomfort/pain.
  5. Leif
    From previous posts it’s quite obvious that he has had badly fitting skates from True, at least twice. As for the current ones, I can only accept what he says. Honestly I think he’d be better off getting his money back and going with Bauer or CCM. I don’t doubt the quality of True skates for most people but it looks like they failed smu/Alan.
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    Smu: I have no idea what to say, except maybe you have an unusual foot shape.
  7. Leif
    Nicholas G: I had issues with my Bauer Custom skates compressing my toes and rubbing against the outsides of my small and big toes. As I mentioned earlier, they seem to be adjusting themselves, maybe when I skate they warm up, and expand slightly in response to pressure. To be honest custom skates of any brand are a close fitting item, and the foot is a living item that changes in size throughout the day, so expecting a perfect fit from the outset is perhaps unreasonable. However, the improved fit does give me a better feel for the ice, it is quite a revelation. Hell, one day I might learn to play hockey. 🙄
  8. Leif
    Smu:I hope you find a good solution, whether that is using the skates you have, or otherwise. I guess I am lucky as my Bauer s160 skates were okay, and my current Bauer Custom skates are wonderful. Yes they were a bit painful at first, but they seem to have adjusted themselves to my feet. I think this is because my feet are fairly average. I’m sure you know, but there are posts in this forum about using a clamp to compress the heel. I have a feeling that the True skates are so mouldable that you should be able to get a nice fit. I’ve poked and prodded my friends pair, and without doubt they are quite different from my Bauers.
  9. Leif
    Many female skaters will have feet that small or smaller. I can think of one in a team I used to train with.
  10. Leif
    Are they now a decent fit? Not sure if this is relevant, but my Bauer Custom skates were a bit tight in the toes, two more bakes, and many hours on ice and I'm rather impressed at how each is gradually forming a close mould around the foot. I assume True would be similar.
  11. Leif
    I have a fishbowl. I tried it once and within minutes it was dripping with moisture, totally useless on our cold damp rink. I tried washing up liquid on my eyeglasses during public skating, and it sort of works, but the air is so humid and cold that they did steam up a bit. The Bauer hybrid visor-cage is an alternative, more airflow than a fishbowl, more protection than a visor. Someone at our rink got a puck in the face and lost four teeth. Oddly enough lots of players then switched from a visor to a cage, even though months earlier I'd expressed concern that they wore visors. At their rec sessions there is an ex-pro Slovak who is first rate, who takes slap shots even when someone is between him and the goal, I've taken a few from him. And I will be wearing a neck guard in future at those sessions, a puck to the throat could kill. I took a puck to the ribs last week, and that hit a non padded area, and it hurt.
  12. Leif
    I bought a Bauer Re-akt cage for my large 4500 and Reakt 200 helmets. It needed widening a bit before it would fit properly, not easy but doable by hand. Much better than the normal cage I had before.
  13. Leif
    I went from Supreme S160 to Bauer Customs, and the latter are from another world. The ankle areas have some lovely foam padding, and the tongue wraps my foot, in a way the s160 tongue never did. They grip my ankles, but leave me with ankle flex which my s160 skates did not. I sometimes got lace bite from the s160, never from the customs. Lacing is easier, and the wrap is more even around the foot. I did have tightness and discomfort round the front of each foot, but with a couple more bakes, and lots of skating, they seem to be stretching, and forming round my feet rather nicely. I have a suspicion from what numerous friends have told me that the higher end non custom skates are more comfortable, and less prone to lace bite and other nasties, assuming you have reasonably ‘normal’ feet, due to the extra effort Bauer, CCM and others put in when making them.
  14. Leif
    I have it bad in my right hand, first few fingers, left hand is okay. It seems quite common, a friend had it recently during public skating, he’s almost the same age as me, 55, maybe it’s an age thing.
  15. Leif
    The cold toes are at the start when I’m dry, our rink is very cold as there is no heating, it broke down years ago and they can’t afford repairs. I picked up some wool skiing socks, and my toes are now very toasty, so I’ll see how they do on ice. Mind you, they are so warm I’ll wear these during the day given the cold winter mornings. Edit: skated with wool socks today, two hours hockey scrimmage, they’re great, much warmer at the start of the session, they do get quite damp but that didn’t bother me as by then my feet were warm. Much better than Bauer socks. Good tip, thanks.
  16. Leif
    I assume you mean Raynaud’s syndrome. No idea. I have that in my fingers when it gets very cold, but my toes are fine once I warm up, and only when the ice is very cold. I guess one issue with custom skates is the lack of room for toe warmers. My boots do get sweaty after a few hours, and the powerfoots just absorb sweat, not sure it’s unusual, they are a porous foam.
  17. Leif
    My current skates leave almost zero space above the toes, no way any foam can fit, however the s160 does have enough room, I’ve used a pair with powerfoot inserts. I like the idea of DIY, they are no more than small pieces of cheap foam with a sticky surface. It’s worth mentioning that mine got very damp from sweat.
  18. Leif
    I get horribly cold feet when the ice is hard/cold, the heel is okay but the toes feel frozen, not nice at all. I’m not sure there is much that can be done about it apart from moving around. I was told by a coach that you should tighten skates not tight at the toes, tight at the mid foot, and not tight at the top. I do the laces up not tight at the toes, tight at the mid foot and semi tight to tight at the ankle. I found having them too loose at the toes caused discomfort, no idea why. You might want to try tightening your laces differently and see if it helps, or not. Personally I hate waxed laces, I prefer wide laces which are easier to tighten, but many will disagree with me, each to their own.
  19. Leif
    What results did it give, and were the different results from different shops?
  20. Leif
    Surely the scan would tell you the best fit. I’m guessing you are a Nexus, or borderline Supreme. I take it you’ve read online guides to fitting skates?
  21. Leif
    Mine was a Bauer scan with socks, and Mark in the LHS is very careful. However, I think in retrospect ordinary thin normal socks would have been better. One advantage of Bauer, and CCM, is that you can try on stock boots to get a feel for the fit. One thing I noticed about my friend’s True skates is that they seem to grip the leg above the ankle, whereas my skates grip the ankle, but not the leg, which I feel gives me more freedom although it took a while to adapt. I certainly noticed it when going from mid range Bauer skates which grip the leg.
  22. Leif
    Another thing that might be worth doing when having a scan is wearing appropriate socks. I've noticed some allow the toes to splay, and some such as Bauer hockey socks pull the toes in as they seem to be made for narrow feet. This wasn't mentioned to me as I bought Bauer socks in the shop before the scan thinking they would be ideal.
  23. Leif
    Yes you need lots more knee bend, take it slowly, practice practice practice. A common problem is to go too fast, and lose control. Use your stick as a support. You need to learn to ride your edges, which feels unnatural. Can you do one foot inside and outside edge drills? If not, I suggest you practice them, lots. It takes many many hours of hard work. There are many good YouTube videos.
  24. Leif
    👍Buying the previous season’s gear is an excellent way to get quality at modest prices. As to whether or not technology improves, maybe a bit, but manufacturers have to update gear on a regular cycle so that customers don’t think products are getting outdated, and to encourage gear heads to ‘upgrade’ when they don’t need to. So some of the ‘improvements’ are simply changes to the styling.
  25. Leif
    You can’t make any judgements based on posts on forums. For every person who has issues, and comes online to find out what they can do, there may be huge numbers of satisfied owners who do not post online. Also you don’t know how many they make in a year, the more they make the more likely someone has issues. Certainly some posts here reflect badly on True, but we may see similar reports about CCM and Bauer customs once lots are out in the wild. My LHS is the biggest Bauer custom seller in the U.K. but they’ve only sold ~20. As an owner of custom skates, it occurred to me that manufacturers are making a skate that is supposed to fit very closely around a foot requiring tight tolerances. That is no mean feat (no pun intended). And as said expectations are high. I have had to bake my Bauer’s three times to get a near perfect wrap. Something that does puzzle me is that a friend who has True skates likes them, and they look good, but he has to really tighten the laces such that his feet go numb. He says he can’t skate if they are not tight. I do wonder if they restrict his ankles flexing when that tight. I tighten my Bauer’s, but nowhere near that tight.
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