As a fellow figure skater, I salute your bravery for even trying literal knife shoes on ice.

Good job Billy! Way to do something scary and put yourself out there! It’s really cool to see kimono in recreational use. It’s a reminder that kimono were and are everyday clothes, not just something for special occasions

You're so brave, trying the geta skates! They looked like there's almost no support at all! I also loved your skating outfit. You brought spring to the ice. 🌸🌸🌸

Geta skates?! I must say first it sounded like an April fools joke but japanese inventions never stop to surprise me 😃 Thank you very much for bringing Japan closer to me, I love your videos!

You mentioned sharpening the blades, and I was about to suggest that! I remember using the sometimes terribly blunt rental skates at ice skating rinks, and they were just impossible to move in, but if you got them sharpened up, it made it a hundred times better. Thanks for another fascinating video!

Time for a collab between Billy and a woodworker willing to whittle a pair of geta skates that fit perfectly? =0c

In Holland we have friese doorlopers, skates from Friesland. You can bind them under your shoes.

When I was 5 in the Netherlands in the 50s I had wooden skates with a metal blade that strapped over my shoes like sandals. I still have my father's skates that were the same except that they have a cute curl up the front. You can see these if you look at Dutch paintings of the 18th and 19th century. But those geta skates look terrifying. You are very brave.

i absolutely love all the patterns and colours in your first outfit, when you went outside and tied the kimono up and we could see all the layers. and the way you could see a glimpse of the colourful lining on the sleeves on that first kimono is absolutely glorious.

Thank you for sharing. It's very interesting to know. I didn't know about the japanese way but in northern Belgium and The Nederlands kids had skating wooden clog 😃😃😃 My grandfather used to skate like this as a kid in the 20's. 😊 your oufits are all very beautiful and I looove your magenta haori. See you soon😘♥️

That was so interesting :-) For trying them on for the first time, I would count not getting hurt as a success! I hope you can find a way to get them to work for you. Did you have any additional padding in your tabi or something? It looks like it would be quite painful and cold in winter 🥶

I was just thinking about making some geta skates today! I saw them in an antique shop and was fascinated by them.

Your skating outfit was so pretty! O: This was fun content! Wonderful as always!

All of your kimono are lovely!!! They're in such fun colors and designs, too!

I'm happy you didn't break your legs! What a funny idea to try this out, thanks for sharing and greetings from good old Germany! 😊🙋‍♀️

I was surprised that Japan did not develop ice skates independent of the West (assuming I am understanding correctly). Clearly there are bodies of water which froze which one could skate on.

They looked absolutely terrifying to me and you are so brave for trying them

What an interesting invention

It's a really cool video, it's fascinating to see these historical objects in use! Also i really liked the way the kimono you were wearing from 13-17 min of the video looked like a dragon fruit. It's the deep pink and green triangles, and dotted nagajuban colar looking like the insides of the fruit! So pretty!

Thank you! I had never heard about geta skates before (just our budo sensei saying that traditionally a good way to train balance is to run on ice wearing ordinary geta), so this was really interesting.

What a fun yet scary thing to try! I had no idea that geta skates were a thing. I’d love to see a video of you skating in regular skates!

So cool!! The lack of ankle support would make me nervous, but I'm glad you had braces. It will be interesting to see if sharpening or replacing the blades will improve the skates.

Yes, i even had the chance to buy some of the gets ice skates at the 2017 Denver cherry blossom festival! I didn't but maybe i should have! Lol I also tried ice skateing in kimono this weekend and it was scary, probably because it was fake ice, everyone pretty much agreed it's easier to skate on real ice.

I am impressed!! I didn't think there were geta on skates!!Excellent video as usual👏😍😉 !!

We have missed you! I love that you tried this! I have many snow geta and they are incredibly hard to walk in, I cannot imagine how hard this was!!! Thank you so much for sharing!

The second pair the blades look like speed skates. Since speed skates have an upper more like a shoe than a boot it kinda makes sense. Find an amateur speed skater and see what they can do.

This made me smile so much! Thankyou and keep with it!

Could you have a pair of geta skates made? I assume it might be expensive though.

I hadn't heard about geta skates and I had fun seeing this adventure! I can see some diy attempt in your future, to try and get the wooden part of them to be the right size. I'm excited to see them again in another video!

WHOAH!!!

I have the exact same orangey peach kimono with the seigaiha pattern!

Awesome video! Glad to see you back on KZfaq sharing the great culture of Japan

thank you so much for this video, it is lovely and so cooooollll! It is so amazing!

Estoy obsesionada con tu canal✨ gracias por existir💗💗💗

Oh, my…! It looks so scary! 😱 Even if the first try didn’t go as you hoped for, it’s still a great result! I hope that with exercise and maybe some adjustments you will be able to find the right balance 😊

The whole video I was so scared for your ankles. Do you know if in the past, when people were using geta skates normally, there was a lot of injury?

Oh my goodness your ankles! You are so brave! I was a pro ice skater so I know that normal ice skating boots need an enormous amount of support, you had practically none! 🫣 Well done for staying upright!

What a fun video and so interesting! I was smiling the whole time watching ☺️ Also I LOVED all your different styles in this video, especially the checkered fuscia and green - such great colors together!!

着物と　アイススケト も　好きです！

Can't wait to see you skate in these once you've had more practice!

New here love the peach kimono.

Its interesting that the blades are so different

Lol Billie, dein Outfit bei 7:38~ ist super meme Material! Ein bisschen zwischen Taisho Roman und Mod 😍

This was interesting! It's interesting to see how cultures will integrate foreign customs with themselves.

Even if the results were quite what you were hoping for, I still really enjoyed the video! I also thought it was cute when your husband appeared and asked how it was going ♥️ ♥️ I wonder if any of this older relatives ever got to use geta skates. Was it difficult finding geta skates in general, or just ones that were in your size? I know here in the US, it's not uncommon to find tie-on metal roller skates in antique shops.

This was very interesting. :)

Do they make geta crutches?

Wow, when you first put them on I was terrified, thinking you are going to break an ankle😂 But at the end 😮👏🏽 Just awsome. Btw… Hi, my name is Alicia and I‘m from Munich. I started to watch your videos last year and you inspired me to get my own Kimono (Furisode to be exact). In July there will be a Japan Festival in Englischer Garten and I would love to put on my Furisode for that occasion. That‘s where I ask you 😅 Could you maybe make a video where you show how to tie the tateya musubi? I remember the video where you explained the different types of obi and when I saw that obi arrangement I imediatly fell in love with it❤ With best regards and looking foward for future videos😍👋🏽

The blades look more like Nordic skates, which aren't ground in a U-shape (or my grandpa's skates from the 1920s, which also aren't hollow-ground). I'm told that's better for natural (rough) ice than how hockey skates are ground, but I don't know. (I WANT a pair of Nordic skates, but I don't skate often enough to justify them. I fall down enough on the rink.)

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Without the ankle support of the leather boot they just look too scary. But I'm a poor skater. this was quite interesting.

Geta skating experience? Please tell us more! 😯

You can sand blast the rust off. Take them to a professional skate sharpener. The next time you go. try to keep the blades under your feet parallel to each other. I see that you have the skate out like a V shape and not || under your feet. To know that you are skating correctly, is that you should feel the skate glide on the ice and not scrape. Hang on to the wall. Stand up straight in a marching position. Place the blades close to each other and parallel to each other and under your body. Then take one foot forward so that you can feel the blade glide over the ice. Return to the parallel position. Then repeat the same for the other foot. Repeat this over and over again until you feel that the blades are gliding over the ice. When you are comfortable with this then proceed to push off with one foot. glide with both feet on the ice until you stop. then push off with the other foot glide then repeat. I wish I was there to help you out. Try again with this knowledge and instruction.

This is so interesting. Maybe you can practice with regular clothes first.