Buying new skates

[duch 0]

Chadd's advice is right on. That's exactly how I've sized a pair of new skates for years. It usually works out I can just get a finger behind the back of my foot when I push it forward in the skate when I do it his way.

[Chadd 916]

I can just get a finger behind the back of my foot when I push it forward in the skate when I do it his way.

That's usually enough to go down another size.

[oggy_3 0]

I remeber growing up that when you tryed on skates one finger is fine but a while ago a training session at worked showed us that a finger can be 2 plus sizes, i have small girly hands and one of my fingers are 2 sizes. What we use now is just a small blue pen and when you match it up to the sizing chart it is exactly one size.

[strosedefence34 178]

i wear a

12 in my nike dunks

12 in one pair of lakai

11 in another pair of lakai

11 in supra

and my graf ice skates are 10W

and i just bought a used pair of bauer inlines for street size 9

[hgdaigle 0]

Wow that's really weird, I wear a size 10 D.C shoe and i wear a size 9 EE Vapor XXII skate and i feel great in them, to each is own i guess.

[qmechanic 17]

I wear women's size 6.5 sneakers (equivalent to size 5 men's) and a size 2.5 skate in Graf/Bauer.

[hunterphfr 12]

HOWEVER, thing to remember with hockey skates you want a small/tight fit for nimble maneuvers & performance. However, in street shoes many prefer a larger, looser fit for comfort.

That's the case with me. I wear a larger shoe for comfort, so my skate size is about 2.5 sizes smaller.

I have pretty screwed up feet. They're short (like your sister's), but obscenely wide and big around (as in requiring a deep fitting boot). As shoes and skates get shorter they get narrower and shallower. This can make finding skates and shoes that fit tough. So with shoes and boots I tend to buy sizes that are too big and sometimes take the insoles out. This cheating up a size or so makes the difference between my shoe and skate size bigger than a person with normal feet.

[iceangel 0]

I wear DC Shoes, I just find it strange

I wear DC Shoes size 6 and skates size 4.5D so size 4.0D fitted me just nice.

[hockeyfreak 0]

I feel like my baby toe is a little tight, can that area be punched out at all.. it ijust needs a little give

[Jordan 13]

Yes the toe area can be punched. Get 'er done !

[Jim A 4]

of course it also depends on how you wear your daily footwear..if you buy your skate shoes big and such it will be adjusted....a better rule of thumb is what you wear in a dress shoe since they normally fit tighter..and the discrepancy between shoe mfgs and their actual cm sizing is a company by company basis

I'm a 12.5/13 in a Nike running shoe but 10D in a Flexlite...which fits the range when compared to a 11/5/12 dress shoe..and taking into account the flexlite is a fairly deep skate

[hockeyfreak 0]

just curious but how tight should the toes feel? Not sure if im just used to wearing a skate way to big and not used to a proper fitting skate, or if the toebox should feel lose.. right now it feels pretty snug after buying the skates a few days ago

[Spreedizzle 1]

just curious but how tight should the toes feel? Not sure if im just used to wearing a skate way to big and not used to a proper fitting skate, or if the toebox should feel lose.. right now it feels pretty snug after buying the skates a few days ago

They should feel pretty snug in the toe box. When trying to push your foot into the toe box, the tip of your toes should be able to reach the end of the toe cap.

[JR97 2]

7-8 shoe 5-6 skate.

I couldn't believe the difference going from a size 6.5 to a 5. Not as comfy at first, but the difference in "nimble" was amazing.

[Stephen11 0]

I'm also 7.5-8 shoe size, wearing 4.5 EE Flexlites. My toes do the "just brush the end" thing. The only problem I have is that the skates aren't deep enough even though these are pretty deep skates. I have pretty thick feet though, so I'm not sure if it's because of the junior skate cut or just my big block feet. Probably both.

[hockeyfreak 0]

I'm more talking about toe width, I got a blister on my baby toe after skating for an hour or two in my new vapor 40's. I went to the shop today and they said they would leave my skates on the punching machine for a few hours.. hopefully this will help

[hockeyfreak 0]

I just got my toe cap punched and the baby toe still hurt. I then looked closer at the place where my toe is rubbing and it is not the toe cap, but the stitching between the toe cap and the boot. I hope it will get punched ok. But I am surprised at how rough the protruding the stitching is in my vapor 40's