I do this sometimes, it does work. Ive also found I almost always can relace the shoe as normal after 20-30 miles and the upper has changed enough to keep the volume this initially provided

Wowwwww!!! This is a shoe saver! I bought a pair of Takumi Sen 10’s online. My Boston 12’s are a size 10.5 and they are too long, so I ordered the Takumi’s in a size 10. The length was way better, and I loved the weight and the cushion, but my left foot felt way too uncomfortable after each run as I was getting strong pressure on the top of my big toe joint. I only wore the shoes twice and boxed them up and tossed them in the closet extremely disappointed. Lacing this way relieves the pressure on the top of my big toe joint and I can run in the Takumi’s again. Thank you so much!

Learned this years ago and has helped me run in some shoes that I might have passed on because my wider forefoot. Thanks!

Creating a ' lace window' any where up the lace chain helps with so many shoe fit issues, there are literally so many lace techniques, thanks for this video Matt 😊

Brilliant, will do this on my endo pro 4 as I got a blister in mine due to my toes being bunched, will test this week 👊 cheers!

I use the same technique but in the mid foot, as I have very high arches and I usually get loads of pressure on the top of the foot

So simple and yet fantastic! Please keep doing more videos like this. Thank you!

Thanks Matt! This is just what I need. Probably consider to demo this with differrent color lace and shoe for higher contrast and better clarity. But good stuff as always. Thanks!

This was so helpful!! Thank you a lot!!!

Thank you so much for this video, as well as for all the other great content you provide. I often struggle with crammed toes and had no idea this was a thing. Really can’t wait to try it!

Thanks so much for the tip. I'm going to try it on my pair of Mach 6's, which are still a bit tight after 50 miles.

Have been waiting for this! ❤

This is brilliant. Thanks!

Tried this on pairs of endorphin pro 3s and Superblasts that run a little long but narrow in the toe box and mid foot for me. Can’t believe how much it improves the fit! Thanks for the great tip.

Brilliant - thank you!

Maybe shoe companies should make wides or higher volume lasts instead of making uppers built for bird feet just so they can advertise lower weight

Thank you. Very helpful. 👍

Also great if you find the laces are too short and you need to use the upper hole to lock your heel in. Great video!

Please do more ❤

Omg brilliant! I’ll give asics another chance with this tip 😊

Good tip. Thanks

Thanks Matt and DOR 👍 Tried it on a pair of Hoka Challenger 6s that I'd shelved for being too tight. Worked a treat, including on a trail marathon at the weekend. This, combined with toe socks and a few bits of Rocktape, saw me finish with no foot problems at all.

Thanks Matt !! That is a Great Lacing Tip / Technique....that will help a lot of runners out there... Awesome Video...😃👍🏃

The tip to widen the forefoot finally starts at 1:48 👈🏼 click. You're welcome.

Haven't tried this, but usually skip the first hole and start lacing on second whole works for me

Thank you for the video I really love my Takumi Sen 9 and Streakfly but both give me annoying blisters on my pinky toe. Despite a perfect fit everywhere else

Thank you, thank you, Gracia. So many of the super shoes run so narrow: endorphin pro and speed 1&2, 3; SC Elite.

Thank you.

Cool idea. Some of On shoes come this way but I’m not sure if is just aesthetics for them.

I found better success by skipping the first row althogether and starting the lacing on row 2.

Even better, start the lacing by skipping the first and / or second loop. This applies mostly if the laces aren't long enough.

I'm going to try this with on the Rincon3s, in which I could use some more space. So the only issue left on those will be that annoying tongue!

Is there a reason you are lacing the very first part of the shoe from below the holes rather than above? All my shoes come laced with that for horizontal section laced from above, so the laces sit above the holes, not below. Does that make sense?

What is the best way to keep the tongue centered and avoid slipping into the shoe laterally ? 🦋👣

Ho lee shit how did I never know about this

This has no effect on the size of the metatarsal and toes area. Fortunately most of current running shoes (and most other shoes too) are thermoformable. After spending years in termoforming Intuition boot-liners and shells of sky and mountaineering boots, I developed a simple technique that anybody could learn. It requires just a shoe-stretcher (on sale everywhere, incliding online) and a a pot of boiling water. It makes possible to widen the whole toe box volume, ot to mold a bunion garage etc. I wrote about this technique on "Correre" magazine, time ago (italian text), and I am available to spread it.

Just get wider shoes.

Anything for middle top of foot pressure/pain? Especially with shoes that have things like gusseted tongues.