Aren't the small children hilarious? I sometimes wonder what happens once they ditch the support and have to shift their posture back upright, but in the meantime, ZOOOOOOOMMMMMMM! *unpredictable swerve* ZOOOMMMMMMM!
I hate to say it, but a lot of the lacing problem is probably the rental skates. Anyway, make sure you've got the blade flat on the floor while you're tightening the laces; you don't want your toe sticking up in the air. And I'm not sure how well this translates from eyelets to hooks-and-eyes, but I always do two rounds of tightening - once quickly, and then once by hooking my index fingers under each lace crossing and really *YANKING*. I think of Scarlet O'Hara every time. Maybe you could try doing that up to the point the hooks take over, and then do two crossings, tighten the lowest, do one more, tighten the next lowest, etc.?
And sometimes you just have a crummy lace day and you keep having to stop and readjust. I've been there.
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Date: 2013-04-17 11:39 pm (UTC)Aren't the small children hilarious? I sometimes wonder what happens once they ditch the support and have to shift their posture back upright, but in the meantime, ZOOOOOOOMMMMMMM! *unpredictable swerve* ZOOOMMMMMMM!
I hate to say it, but a lot of the lacing problem is probably the rental skates. Anyway, make sure you've got the blade flat on the floor while you're tightening the laces; you don't want your toe sticking up in the air. And I'm not sure how well this translates from eyelets to hooks-and-eyes, but I always do two rounds of tightening - once quickly, and then once by hooking my index fingers under each lace crossing and really *YANKING*. I think of Scarlet O'Hara every time. Maybe you could try doing that up to the point the hooks take over, and then do two crossings, tighten the lowest, do one more, tighten the next lowest, etc.?
And sometimes you just have a crummy lace day and you keep having to stop and readjust. I've been there.