How tight do you lace your skates

[fawn111 0]

Just curious to see what others do....

I'm a forward.... I like to leave them snug, but too tight through the toes and instep... I crank down pretty hard around the heel and then gradually get looser as I approach the top two eyelets. I have noticed that I cannot skate backwards as well if the skate is too tight at the top.

[NYRSinceBirth 0]

A lot of people disagree with me, but I prefer tight as possible throughout. I do one pass, a hard tug, and move on. I don't over exert myself, but I pull pretty hard, even at the top, although I let a little slip. I started to over-under the top 3 eyelets, and since I've done that it's a little harder to tighten them like the rest of the skate so they're usually not as snug, but it's worked wonders for my forward flex. Weird, but that's how I do it.

[Invert 13]

If I tighten my skates too tight, I get absolutely horrible foot pain. I also have a skating technique that is heavy on the ankles (in a good way) so the top of my skates is always very loose. NBH One95's for ice and CCM ZG110 converted for inline.

[matix218 11]

The whole skate is as tight as I can get it minus the top 2 eyelets (still snug but not cranked super tight). If I crank the top super tight i can not get enough forward flex. I have Vector ZG130s by the way.

[NYRSinceBirth 0]

I have Bauer XIX's, nothing special, but they fit my feet perfectly. I never feel pain/pinching/numbness/blisters anything what so ever.

[Ital79 0]

I lace the skates as tight as possible and do not use the top 2 eyelets.

[furlanitalia 1]

A lot of people disagree with me, but I prefer tight as possible throughout. I do one pass, a hard tug, and move on. I don't over exert myself, but I pull pretty hard, even at the top, although I let a little slip. I started to over-under the top 3 eyelets, and since I've done that it's a little harder to tighten them like the rest of the skate so they're usually not as snug, but it's worked wonders for my forward flex. Weird, but that's how I do it.

+1. Cannot stand a loose fitting skate, even having tongues out can drive me crazy at times.

[deadmanjolt 1]

"pain is insane" so I tighten to the edge of where it would hurt. I skip the top lace and have more than acceptable forward flex. I am curious, for people who say taht they leave the top two eyelets looser, does that not translate into overall looseness as time goes by?

[matix218 11]

"pain is insane" so I tighten to the edge of where it would hurt. I skip the top lace and have more than acceptable forward flex. I am curious, for people who say taht they leave the top two eyelets looser, does that not translate into overall looseness as time goes by?

CCM/RBK lace locks help with that. But on skates without those leaving the upper eyelets looser would definately trickel down to the lower laces.

[starsfan71 9]

I do it as tight as I possibly can through the entire skate including the top 3 eyelets. I don't get a lot of forward flex but I love it.

[GoWings85 0]

I tighten them up pretty snug but I leave the top eyelet open. When I laced it al the way up once it felt like I was on my heels the whole time.

[westcoastsniper 0]

I used to be a super tightener, now I let 'em get sloppier and sloppier except for the forefoot which is super tight.

I think it comes from having skates that never fit growing up and having to tighten the hell out of them to keep 'em place.

now I have snug skates and I don't need them as tight

[sitzlejd 0]

Sounds like I'm the opposite of most. I go tight at the bottom, a little looser at the middle-top, and tight again in the last 2-3 eyelets. Works for me but I've never really tried anything else.

[gelowitz 0]

Sounds like I'm the opposite of most. I go tight at the bottom, a little looser at the middle-top, and tight again in the last 2-3 eyelets. Works for me but I've never really tried anything else.

Exactly what I do, except skip the top eyelet. Seems to work the best for me.

[adcool17 0]

I go as tight as I can, all the way up....If I don't everything just feels sloppy. I guess it is a comfort/mental thing.

[Jordan 13]

I have XXXXs, which are a very stiff skate, and they fit very sung while undone. For me, moderate tightness works along the foot, actually fairly loose above the ankle.

To each his own.

[Darkbyte 0]

My skates dont fit me properly so I have to tighten them up as much as possible or they just feel even more wrong.

One foot fits my skates better than the other. I dont need to lace the better fitting foot as tight as I do for the smaller ill fitting foot.

[Ivan 1]

Custom One95s top eyelet undone.Two next ones down loose. Forth one sort of tight. The rest ones are semi-loose. Nice forwad flex. Good boot wrap helps.

[Jarick 5]

I lace it snug, for the first 6 or so eyelets, outside in so it doesn't really loosen or tighten much. Then I lace inside out for the next 3 or 4 eyelets and pull them fairly tight. I skip the top eyelet. I also use Gorilla Laces so they don't come undone, they hold better than waxed. I'm using Vapors that were baked and bladder molded so they fit very well and I can almost skate in them with the laces untied.

[cityofwalrus 0]

Judging by the responses here... I'm almost by myself. I laces my skates fairly loose, I don't use the top eyelet and I really like my skates a good loose feeling. For me it helps in my skating and with the ankles being loose and free, tongues out and the RBK/CCM Lace lock it helps to keep a small snug tight around that but that's all that is remotely tight.

[Bender 0]

I've got a low volume forefoot and like my forward flex, as such I tie the entire skate quite tightly along the forefoot, as the eyelets slop upwards my laces go under once to help hold my heel in place and the the top is also fairly tight with the top eyelet not laced.

[1stLiner91 0]

I like a snug fit in my custom one95s. I leave the top 4 eyelets loose enough for my foot to move front and back a little.

Tongues out.

[aal 3]

I lace it snug, for the first 6 or so eyelets, outside in so it doesn't really loosen or tighten much. Then I lace inside out for the next 3 or 4 eyelets and pull them fairly tight. I skip the top eyelet. I also use Gorilla Laces so they don't come undone, they hold better than waxed. I'm using Vapors that were baked and bladder molded so they fit very well and I can almost skate in them with the laces untied.

How / where do you get the skates bladder molded?

[Invert 13]

Judging by the responses here... I'm almost by myself. I laces my skates fairly loose, I don't use the top eyelet and I really like my skates a good loose feeling. For me it helps in my skating and with the ankles being loose and free, tongues out and the RBK/CCM Lace lock it helps to keep a small snug tight around that but that's all that is remotely tight.

You seem to have a technique like me. I'm told the Graf Supra 707's would be perfect for it.

[Roach 0]

Snug on from the bottom to the top 2 eyelets. Tight on the 2nd from the top. Super tight on the top. KOR Shift1 skates.