Feet width ?

[louis 0]

I think i should wear EE , But i presently own 8 k ( praticly new) E width ! They hurt like hell ! Is there a chart somewhere where i can verify ?

[Ogie Oglethorpe 14]

You'll have to go to your local hockey store

[Guest superman20]

yeah theres a thing you put your feet in that they use to mesure your feet...

I had the same problem and now its gone since I switched to EE..

[toranaga 0]

The whole feet size, and especially feet width situation is someting that has frustrated me over the past weeks. Going to a LHS to try on skates is all good and well, but what do poor bastards like me do, that have no LHS (or one LHS with like 2 skates your size to try on, which aren't even the same brand of anything you're interested in).

I've tried searching the net for some concrete numbers of what is considered a wide foot, or measurements for various skates, to no avail. I've mailed a handful of online shops in the hope to get some help, and the best I got was one answer with a size and "use the same width as your normal shoes". Well unfortunately where I live normal shoes don't have widths, shoes here come in sizes, not widths. I don't have the slightest clue whether my feet are considered normal, wide or whatnot.

Considering how much variety skates have in sizes and widths, I think it's pretty lousy of the manufacturers to not have some more detailed numeric info of all their skates (at the very least supply length and width in inches/cm).

All it would take would be a simple little image of the inside/sole outline on top of a grid, so that you easily can determine measurements on different parts of a boot. The more techie oriented users could even scan/photograph a traced outline of their own foot and super impose a correctly scaled version to see what boot would fit the best. In the age of internet commerce such a standard would make all the sense in the world. Sure it's still no guarantee, but it surely would make it more likely to get the boot with the most appropriate size/width.

Now that I got that rant out of the way. It might be helpful for shop deprived people, if there was some "list" where people could post the length and width (or possibly both ball and heel widths) of their biggest foot (while standing) along with their skate model and size.

I don't know, maybe I'm going mad, but it's hard to keep your sanity when there simply isn't any possibilty to try on various skates, and since you're supposed to try skates on there's no decent measurement info on the net.

[bainsstatic 0]

I'm in the exact same situation

[josh930 0]

This may help some...

http://hockey.philbricks.net/page.htm?PG=hockey_equipment

[TBLfan 25]

that doesn't really help considering that a 9K skate isn't going to fit like a Vapor or a Vector or whatever. Many different skates fit differently.

[Sven 1]

The only advice i can give you is to try the widths. I mean, just put on the skate and walk around in your LHS. After a while it should either hurt (e.g. getting kinda warm (some spots in the skates), numb or ache) or be fine. That was when i tried on XXX in store, when i put them on they were ok and i could get my feet in them without problems but when i walked around it just took me about 5-8 minutes and it started to hurt.

[Hockeydog 8]

I agree, there is really no substitute for trying on skates. They all fit differently, not just sizing either. Some skates may hit you feet in spots that are uncomfortable. You do really need to try on skates just as Sven described. Take you time in each pair!

[voss 0]

it depends on the skates i wear ee in missions but the ccms fit fine in a d width for me

[josh930 0]

Each manufacturer should have a printable version of outlined feet in each D, E, EE that you can match up to yours by standing up and giving you a rough figure of what width you are since theres no other figure to go by if you dont have access to a store or were just wondering. (Deep Breath)

[jokerit1967 0]

yeah theres a thing you put your feet in that they use to mesure your feet...

It's called a Brannock Device. See http://www.brannock.com/

In standard U.S. sizing terms:

Each width is separated by a distance of 3/16 of an inch. There are actually nine widths in the US system (width actually varies with foot length): AAA, AA, A, B, C, D, E, EE, and EEE. (also see http://brannock.com/cgi-bin/start.cgi/bran...tory.html

The problem with most skates is that they are sized in Canadian Shoe Sizes which differs from UK, US, European, etc. sizing. I think both my Nike and CCM boxes listed all these size comparisons. So, one of the problems that normally comes up when people try to figure out their skate sizes is that we don't use Canadian sizing conventions (hence the normal formula about 1 1/2 size drop to skates or whatever) plus people tend to have improperly fitted shoes... by improperly I mean people tend to pick comfort over (tending to prefer looser fitting shoes that are easier to slip and off as opposed to shoes that are conducive to an efficient walking stride)...

since the average dress or athletic shoe is also not as rigid as the average hockey skate... people get away with inefficiently selected street shoe sizes... plus everyone who is the least bit picky and buys enough different brands of shoes should notice that not every shoe is the same size -OR- that there are also shoes that no matter what the size selected feel horrible on your feet and someone else will tell you how comfortable they are...

example of fitting conversion with image of nike label with canadian skate size, us, etc.

http://www.hockeymonkey.com/skatsizchar.html

[jeffw 1]

I saw a Graf fitting guide somewhere online. It has pictures and descriptions of different foot types and which of their skates fit that type.

[louis 0]

I saw a Graf fitting guide somewhere online. It has pictures and descriptions of different foot types and which of their skates fit that type.

Yup i am going with graf's ! Gotta wait new shipment of my LHS in june . Worst case scenario i am going custom wih Graf