JimmyTheDriver

Pencil test, over the region of the foot where I am getting the pain, is just barely a pass. The pencil grazes over that bone in the picture. Thanks for the advice - I'll check out some other skates to see what the depth is like, and look into the lace extenders.

Any thoughts on it just being a depth issue? I used the word volume, but maybe in my case "depth" is a better word. Thanks for the feedback!

Hey fellas, need some skate help. I plan to make a trip to try things on, but its a few hours away, so I need some preliminary advice. I currently skate in Bauer Supreme S190s, and they kill the top of my foot. Right around where the 4-5th eyelets are - bones across the top of my foot. I have a feeling mine are a bit larger than other peoples. See included image. My solution has been to tie the skates loose through there, which helps, but then I lose some of the rigidity of the boot. Almost feels like the boot is bowing outward through the middle. but no visible creases or anything. If I tie the skates tighter through the middle eyelets, the support comes back, but so does the foot pain. While I don't otherwise have a high volume foot- do I need a higher volume boot? If yes - could that be the CCM Tacks? The Tacks 9090s are in my price range, and seem like they might fit the bill. I've done the volume calculations found on some hockey websites, and my score falls in the average category... but I've gotta stop this top of the foot pain. Thanks! Jim

Consider the CCM p29 / Bauer P92? Aka.. Sakic, Ovetchkin, Crosby, Nugent-Hopkins. A great all-rounder that lifts the puck nicely and much easier to shoot than the p28, in my opinion. Cut a bit shorter than you are used to, and I bet you could get the feel in no time. https://www.thestickguru.com/pattern-database/

This is spot on. They feel similar, but the p28 was too unforgiving. Every shot either never left the ice - or took out the lights. When it was perfect though... wow did it rip. In the end, I'm more comfortable with the p92 and went back to it. I think the p92 loads great without the sensitivity of the p28.

Arch in the skate or the steel?

Thoughts on replacement steel? I feel like the pitch is a bit much for my liking, especially since adding superfeet yellows. Step Steel the only good replacement? If so, what size is my runner? Skate size is 8.5D, kind of had trouble following their size chart.

Did it work? The steep arches of these skates cramp my feet. Unfortunately that area of the skate is the hard carbon. Curious if this area can actually be shaped. Thanks!

Let's say you add Supefeet yellows to other wise stock Makos, is that slight heel lift enough to consider it more like a +4?

Great info, thanks!

They can be purchased like this so all I would have to do is a normal sharpen and I'm good?

I like this idea. Since putting in Superfeet, I am pitched extremely far forward.

When I was having fitment issues my case got passed around a bit and landed with the Easton skate R&D guys. They had me go 15 mins in a standard skate oven and made a passing comment they could handle even more. They were extremely soft after 15 so I couldent imagine doing it longer.

I never count on length while baking. Every skate I've run that gamble on, I curled my toes for the next year. The solid plastic toe cup and carbon fiber heel (whatever they call it) at the rear of the skates makes the front and back non-moldable. Now - the liner/padding within the heel does form some, but if you are toe curling, thats not going to stop. Your toenail grazing the front ever so slightly, maybe, but the toe actually banging up against the front... I'd go a half size up. -Jim

To me the rubbery mesh seems more for looks. The structure of the skate comes from the material under it. I wouldent be too worried about it.

Yeah. I have basically zero negative space. Now is the time with Easton skates future up in the air. Rumor had it Total Hockey stores gave mako 2s on sale for 400.

Are VH as moldable as Makos or is their draw the fact that they are essentially the shape of your foot before you even put them on? Many of you switch from Makos?

Damnit Gosinger, we are grieving!

The purchase really has be bummed out. Just dropped 800 on skates that were discontinued like 10 days later. I feel lucky to have gotten a pair but worry about availability of parts in the near future, like replacement tendon guards. My worry legit or do most guys never have to replace anything and I can rock these new beauties for a few years without manufacturer backing?

For sure. Like I said back when I bought them, I practically had to grovel to get them to shut up about Jetspeeds and let me try Makos on. I will say though that was only the retail store experience, Easton customer support on the other hand, blew me away. They made everything right by me, and then some. I am a born again, lifelong Easton customer now.

Yeah... but I also drove 4 hours to go to this store to be able to try some on. It worked out in the end so thats good :)

I tried this tactic at a Hockey Giant retail shop and they refused bake without buying them. They were convinced these were like all other skates out there and once baked were fit for your foot forever - thus can't be sold to someone else.

Wow these are gorgeous

I just went through a bunch of this, maybe its helpful (although I might have already told you this) --- -The steep arches can be mostly fixed with Superfeet Yellows. Most skates accomplish arch support via the insole, these skates have a formed/solid arch, so it takes something like the yellows, which lifted my foot off the arch a bit to provide relief. Needed to rebake after adding yellows -I had rub on the inside of my foot, enough to draw blood after a 10 minute skate. A $15 heat gun from Northern Tool and a few minutes fixed that. Just heat a little a push it out with thumbs or back of screwdriver -Waxed laces feel just as amazing in these skates as your old. I just put mine in and they are better than ever -If the volume is in a place that looks heat mold-able, the matrix/grid looking rubber, use the heat gun on that area and shape that section to foot better

Does anyone use superfeet yellows in their skates? I threw some in to lift my arch off a rub spot which basically worked but... Between the aggressive pitch of the skate and heel lift of yellows, I am a little wobbly out there. This something I will get used to?