Does anyone make a skate tongue that actually fits a human shin?

[Beflar 53]

I have lace bite in one foot.  I do the Forsberg thing where I velcro two gel columns to the inside of the skate tongue to give room for that tendon in the front of the shin that sticks out when you bend your knees or lift your toes.  Then I'm like 'how has no one built something like this into all skate tongues already'?   I'm thinking all skate tongues on the inside should be shaped like this  ^  more not like this ( .    Like, you keep the outside of the skate tongue like this  " (   " but the inside should be more like this ^ .

Basicly what I'm saying is the front of my shin is not round.

I'm using a Bauer One 100 at the moment.  So maybe the new tongues do this?  Or if someone knows of a product.

 

Edited February 23, 2020 by Beflar

[Larry54 243]

Bauer once had something like that called the Form-Fit tongue.

https://sidelineswap.com/gear/hockey/skates/player-skates/857038-bauer-new-formfit-plus-felt-skate-tongues

[colins 246]

4 hours ago, Beflar said:

I have lace bite in one foot.  I do the Forsberg thing where I velcro two gel columns to the inside of the skate tongue to give room for that tendon in the front of the shin that sticks out when you bend your knees or lift your toes.  Then I'm like 'how has no one built something this into all skate tongues already'?   I'm thinking all skate tongues on the inside should be shaped like this  ^  more not like this ( .    Like, you keep the outside of the skate tongue like this  " (   " but the inside should be more like this ^ .

Basicly what I'm saying is the front of my shin is not round.

I'm using a Bauer One 100 at the moment.  So maybe the new tongues do this?  Or if someone knows of a product.

 

 

Problem is not the shape of the tongue, it's that your instep is too high for the depth of the boot. If it wasn't, the tongue would sit comfortably on the tendon with the padding doing it's job, and your laces wouldn't press directly down on the tendon when you are flexing your foot while skating.

Do you pass the pencil test on one skate and not the other? 

colins

[Sniper9 530]

Either your skates don't properly fit or your tongue is worn out. Or you have a pre existing lace bite injury that never fully healed.  If the latter is the case you need to be more agressive in the rehabilitation of it rather than rest and hope it gets better. 

[stick9 891]

Actually sounds like the boot isn't deep enough, probably fails the pencil test.

I get what he means. Look at the top of your foot in the boot with the tongue pulled out. It's not a nice rounded surface. It's an asymmetrical inverted V.

Bauer went there a little with the offset quarters.

[Davideo 99]

Skate tongues are typically pretty pliable and form to the shape of your shin. I wouldn't think a V versus a U would make much of a difference.

[Larry54 243]

9 hours ago, Davideo said:

Skate tongues are typically pretty pliable and form to the shape of your shin. I wouldn't think a V versus a U would make much of a difference.

I believe he means a padded V shape on the inside of the tongue and a more rigid C shape on the outside sort of like this cross-section of a tongue expertly drawn in MS paint.😄

Edited February 26, 2020 by Larry54

[wedgylx 8]

Way back in the day I had a pair of skates, I think racks but maybe Bauer supremes, and they had a real thick felt tongue with exactly what You’re  describing - long channel down the center 

[Beflar 53]

35 minutes ago, wedgylx said:

Way back in the day I had a pair of skates, I think racks but maybe Bauer supremes, and they had a real thick felt tongue with exactly what You’re  describing - long channel down the center 

...did it work?

[wedgylx 8]

21 minutes ago, Beflar said:

...did it work?

who knows I was a kid lol. I never even heard of lace bite until I got it as an adult but I’d kill for that tongue now

[BruinDust 42]

I recently had a set of Nash tongues installed on my Bauer Nexus 7000s and I really like them. I like them a lot more than the stock tongues that came out of my Nexus. 

[BenBreeg 493]

1 hour ago, BruinDust said:

I recently had a set of Nash tongues installed on my Bauer Nexus 7000s and I really like them. I like them a lot more than the stock tongues that came out of my Nexus. 

Are they thick, thin?  Can you post pics?

[wedgylx 8]

2 hours ago, BruinDust said:

I recently had a set of Nash tongues installed on my Bauer Nexus 7000s and I really like them. I like them a lot more than the stock tongues that came out of my Nexus. 

guy at my local shop said he uses them exclusively. I see you're a Bruins fan, did you get them done at Cookes in Wilmington MA?

[Larry54 243]

I once did this to my Bauer Flexlite skates to alleviate lace bite. I stuck self-adhesive closed-cell foam weather-stripping strips so they would fall on either side of the tendon. You can find different widths and thicknesses of it at hardware stores. Just make sure you choose the closed-cell foam because the open-cell stuff is not firm enough.

Edited February 28, 2020 by Larry54

[BruinDust 42]

On 2/28/2020 at 2:32 PM, BenBreeg said:

Are they thick, thin?  Can you post pics?

https://imgur.com/gallery/AJ7OvtH

 

 

[BruinDust 42]

On 2/28/2020 at 3:17 PM, wedgylx said:

guy at my local shop said he uses them exclusively. I see you're a Bruins fan, did you get them done at Cookes in Wilmington MA?

No I'm up here in Canada.