Aussie Willy
01-16-2005, 12:55 AM
Okay after 10 months of problems getting new boots (yep that long but it is a long story worthy of an Academy award type saga - Steven Speilberg should make a movie about it) over the new year I finally got them on my feet.
It has been worth the wait. I have skated in them 3 times so far and today I was able to do my sit spin, all jumps up to a flip (they felt a little bit uncomfortable) and a bit of footwork.
They are of course a bit stiff and feel very different from my old Risports but the biggest blessing is they DO NOT HURT MY FEET like the Risports did. Every time I skated in the Risports I had to take them off three or four times during a session because they hurt my insteps so much and this was over FOUR YEARS (I just could not afford to buy new ones until last year). These Jacksons, apart from a couple of sore sport around the tounge area are so comfortable that I am sure in two weeks I will be able to work on new programs and do every thing I could before but even better. Some elements seemed to work so much better than previously and I think they have better balance because they a positioning my feet much better than the old ones.
So blessed are the Jacksons and a pox on the Risports. I still have not thought of an appropriate way to treat the ye olde Risports. Any creative methods of disposal would be great (I could throw them in the local river but that has already been done by Toller). A ceremonial burning on the ice? I was actually thinking of painting them gold and creating a little statue out of them.
It has been worth the wait. I have skated in them 3 times so far and today I was able to do my sit spin, all jumps up to a flip (they felt a little bit uncomfortable) and a bit of footwork.
They are of course a bit stiff and feel very different from my old Risports but the biggest blessing is they DO NOT HURT MY FEET like the Risports did. Every time I skated in the Risports I had to take them off three or four times during a session because they hurt my insteps so much and this was over FOUR YEARS (I just could not afford to buy new ones until last year). These Jacksons, apart from a couple of sore sport around the tounge area are so comfortable that I am sure in two weeks I will be able to work on new programs and do every thing I could before but even better. Some elements seemed to work so much better than previously and I think they have better balance because they a positioning my feet much better than the old ones.
So blessed are the Jacksons and a pox on the Risports. I still have not thought of an appropriate way to treat the ye olde Risports. Any creative methods of disposal would be great (I could throw them in the local river but that has already been done by Toller). A ceremonial burning on the ice? I was actually thinking of painting them gold and creating a little statue out of them.