bulwinkle

The problem I have is that the only skates I've ever found that fit my freaky feet are the (nike)/Bauer Flexlites. I play defense, so if you know these skates, you know that they're like wearing slippers. They're comfortable, but they have no protection at all. So I took an old pair of soccer shin guards, cut out the plastic part, and pulled the remaining sleeve with the foam padding over the tongue, under the laces. The plastic part, I velcro'd to the inside of my skate, where I've blocked many bone bruising shots. It looks like crap in the picture, but it doesn't really look that bad on the skate, and it's unnoticable on the ice. I bought a pair of HockeyGiant's KOR one offs with the Gear brand for $100 last year, after reading the fit reviews on here. They fit my feet pretty well, but the heel was too wide, so I stuck some $4 heel grips that I got at Meijer. Best $4 spent. My heels don't move at all in them. The only other change I made to them was that although the Kor Shifts are advertised as 1 piece composites, the toe cap is plastic, and it is poorly attatched to the one piece boot. I blocked a shot right off the toe cap 3 months ago, and the seam that connects the two failed. I ended up fracturing the toe next to my big toe, and my big toe's nail is _still_ black and blue underneath the nail. So I epoxy'd the toe cap at the seam on both skates. Dunno if it'll hold because I've been skating in my reinforced flexlites since then... -ted [iniNew++ for telling me that I had to host the images offsite] If anyone cares I'll retake the images in focus. Just got a new cell phone and apparently/obviously I don't know how to use the camera yet.