I have pronation issues with my right foot as well. As a beginner adult skater, this is causing me no end of frustration and tears. Heading to my pro shop TODAY!

I loved this journey you showed us through when getting your skates all done. Thank you!

Great video👌🏼 it’s crazy to think how a small change on the positioning of the blade can make such a difference! Very interesting, thank you for uploading and looking forward to next video 💙⛸

Thank You so much, Julia! I've just bought a pair of Jackson freestyles and got blades mounted - I can definitely feel the difference and cannot stop smiling :) Your video has been really helpful. Best wishes from Poland :)

This was so great! I am going to get blades mounted and I forgot we can attach the blade slightly inward to compensate for pronation. I have that issue. So glad i saw this video to remind me. I also didn't realize there was a purpose for the flat vs rounded screws. Thanks for sharing so much great material with us!

I enjoyed watching this video. Nice work, Julia

Interesting! As a hockey player, this isn't talked about much but I'm sure would have similar benefits...I wonder if this guy does hockey skate blade alignments often!

Such an interesting and informative video - I had no idea about any of it. Thank you so much!

Omg.....thank you for this video.....I just got new boots (Jackson Elle’s this week and my right boot was turning on the inside edge.) Had the blade realigned and it has made a bit of a difference, but needs to be adjusted a little more. At first I felt disheartened that it still wasn’t right, but now realise it can still be fine tuned. For 2 years I’ve only had premounted boots/blades and thought it was just me not being able to do some elements...but even with my new boots not yet aligned totally correctly, I can feel the difference. Thank you for such informative videos and instructions.

Loved this doing this with bee skates next week

This video is very helpful!!! Thank you Julia. I was wondering why it was so easy to do straight and do things on my left foot but my right foot was always going to the right. I will have my right blade aligned and then write again here

Update on my comment/question below. Today I tried a different pair of skates in the same size as my skates (belonging to my friend) to see if I could hold my LFO/LBO edge any better. The good news is I couldn't hold a LFO/LBO edges on her skates either so I can rule out incorrect blade placement. The bad news is I need to work on my technique :-) Thanks for your great and very clear videos-they are super helpful.

I am part of an Adult Skaters social media group and I love sharing your videos with people and pointing them to your channel to subscribe. You really help me a lot, thanks! 😍 I shared this video with someone tonight. I cant wait to get my new boots heat molded and blades mounted!

For nostalgia sake, this is the video that got me into your channel. I bought a pair of Jackson freestyles from amazon, not knowing the blades come unattached. So I had to figure out how to do it, and found this video. The answer of course was to go to a pro shop…😅 That was 1.5 year or so ago.

thank you so much for information here. after watch this video and read the commend let me know that i not the only one facing Left Inside edge have a power to pull inside when i skate straight (pronation) . i just get my new skating shoes second days, feeling frustration before i dont know what is pronation and my Left Inside edge no under my control after change the new skating shoes.

Thanks for this video, we have two girls that skate and this demystifies mounting.

I would be interested in your recommendation regarding Coronation Ace vs. MK Professional (and MK Galaxy and MK Flight) (perhaps in relation to foot shape). I am concerned about purchasing Coronation Ace as an adult beginner if it is more difficult to spin on than any of the aforementioned MK blades.

I recently got my blades permanantly mounted after skating in them with the temporary mount for a while to fine tune them but now I find it really difficult to hold a one foot glide with my left foot without overcompensating. Is it still possible to get the blade mounting adjusted or will I have to get a new boot in order to fix this problem?

Hello. Thank you for sharing. Why do you use different types of screw head? Flat head and tuss head.

I have a question as well. So I have a pronation issue too, but also a bone(which many people don't even know they have, ai recently found out) in that area sticking out more than average(both feet, but the right one is worse). Which in combination with that pronation, is actually causing that part of my feet so much pain in a normal nonadjusted boot. Now, I went to a podiatrist and she made an adjustment to my sole. She added some padding to the bottom on the inside part of the soles, so that that part of my feet, around the arch, lifts up, preventing that bone from hitting my boot, but also making my feet not lean inside anymore. Which has helped so much!! But now my question is: with that padding, would the blade adjustment to the inside of the boot still be helpful, or would it actually overly compensate and would I then have to take the padding out. I take it moving the blade a little to the inside, doesnt lift the foot or anything. So I don't know if it could be more helpful or even be worse. I know you are not an expert, but maybe you have an answer, advise or guess?

Thank you! I just order a pair of Risport Royal boots. I’m not sure if the blades are already mounted on risport. If they do not come with Risport, can the skate technician transfer my blades from my Jackson Freestyle to the Risport?

I'm on the temporary mounts on my first figure skates (coming from hockey skates). The blades are longer on figure skates and sometimes I crash my right toe pick into the back end of the left blade during backwards crossovers and it pushes the blade across in the holes. The screws are definitely tight so it's not that I think there's just a lot of force behind that scooping motion on the inside leg.

You admit to not knowing you were compensating for years for a pronation problem you didn’t realize existed. I wish you shared a little more information on *how* to tell if the blade is misaligned. I’ve always just assumed any issues were due to error in my skills. I feel like it would have helped if you had him slightly misalign the skates on purpose and you one foot glided to show what to look for in regards to misaligned blades.

I skated in my new skates for 3 months before a friend noticed I was pulling and scraping to one side. Small move of the blade and I was skating better! Glad she caught it. I had been off the ice for close to 30 years so just thought I was relearning. I also have MK Goldstars. Skated in them as a teenager and into my show years. Very good video. Alignment is so important!

great service, hard to find here in Germany

how to i find the right size blade for my boot?

I was noticing when I'm taking my insoles out to dry out my skates, the left foot seems to have a more pronounced mark under the big toe than the right and I was wondering why. So I had a look at my blades today and it looks like the left blade is more towards the centre than the right one for some reason! They came pre-mounted. What should I do? I haven't noticed anything in particular going straight forward because I haven't been looking for it(I'll try it out next time I go), but I have a bit of trouble holding a left forward inside edge especially when I'm going into a three turn. I've also been having trouble with my left backward outside three turn but I put it down to non-dominant versus dominant foot. Now I'm wondering if it's because of the blade.

I have big pronation problem on my left foot especially, but I have ice fly’s and the bottom is so narrow that I can’t mount the blades as inward as I should :(

This might be an odd question, but is it possible to replace the blade on a boot without replacing the boot itself? Can you assume the blade would be mounted in the exact same spot, or would you go through the mounting process all over again? Are there ever inconsistencies between blades, even the same brand/ model, that you have to account for in remounting? Clearly, I’m very beginner level here, lol😅

Could someone help me? There is this girl who is selling her skates. Her blade is mounted a little bit towards the inside. If I buy the skates and i want to re-mount the blade will the boot get damaged?

How far do you drill on the heel?

I had a pair of pre-mounted boots (Jackson Elle). It was temporary mounted, and after skating in them for a while I had them permanently mounted. However, I had been having issue holding my right foot glide straight - it keeps going inside edge. I’ve been learning everything easier on the left foot, and I thought it’s me that my right foot is weaker (although I am a righty)! Now your video makes me think, maybe I should have my right blade mounting checked?

oh man I wish a had an expert like that to mount the blades on my boots :( I recently bought my first pair of skates online, already mounted (Edea Overtures) and since I have a slight pronation in my left foot I can’t go straight and my boot keeps rocking in :( in Bosnia we have literally no one who knows how to do this mounting, we even have to send our boots to be sharpened in another country!! I was even thinking about doing it by myself 😂 ugh, so discouraging..

Hi Julia After seeing your video, I am really unsure if my blades are incorrectly placed or if it is my technique for difficulty holding the LFO and LBO. I have a bit of pronation on my left foot but a very high arch and I have an insole to help with that bit of pronation. My problem is holding the outside edge esp after an inside 3 turn on that left foot. The skate shop pro and my coach (both very experienced) don't think my blades are incorrectly placed (the blades are basically positioned the same on both skates). I just don't know whether it is just my beginner technique or is it a blade placement issue. Any advice?

I got my new skates and blades, and when I stood and skated in them, both of my feet felt more pressure on the inside and my big toe joint and my arch hurt. I think is the mounting issue and moving the blades outward should help? And my blades are temporarily mounted, but they put in a screw at the tip of the toe. Would this be a problem when I adjust the blades?

I never knew that about the screws either!

Are you at skateTown in Rossville CA???! I just started going there!

Hi! Is it possible to slightly change blade sizes after having those permanent holes in your boot?

i wonder if i can use my inline skate's for ice skating. does anybody know how i can do that?

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How do know if you pronate? Is the skating test enough?

Anyone here has a duck feet posture? How can I place the blades in this case? I’m working on strengthening the muscles to normal posture but it’s very difficult

Can you talk about edea overture skates review?

Why my coach never told me about anything? About sharpening, mounting...

What is pronation? This the first time i am hearing about that.

Супер ! С Уважением - ИванычЪ.

I'm going to go against my usual practice of reading all comments before I comment myself so that I can give a candid reaction to this video. As far as video quality goes, this video is 100% excellent, as are all of Coach Julia's videos. The sound is clear, the lighting is right, Coach Julia has a polished speaking voice and style, this one has location content and an expert guest, so that's all just great, no one could take anything away from the quality of Coach Julia's presentations and her pro style video work. She obviously has a good team behind her. The state of the art in blade alignment described here, however, seems abysmal. The proof of that is that Coach Julia skated an entire high level career with misaligned blades and undiagnosed foot alignment issues. That right there proves that the alignment industry is in sad shape. I would like to believe that Olympic skaters, operating at the most sophisticated level of the art, have expert alignment with lasers and who knows what, but obviously not. If Coach Julia skates with misaligned skates, what are the chances of me getting it right and could that be a big reason as to why figure skating is so darn hard? As shown in this video it seems just trial and error. The idea that the pro is going to send her out on a trial skate, observe, and make adjustments is preposterous. First off, when are you ever going to get a pro to observe you skate? Never. Second, that method is useless for the people that most critically need correctly aligned skates, which are people that are learning to skate. Such people can't do a one foot glide at all, and if they can, they can't do it straight. And if they can do it straight, it's because they are making the needed adjustments, regardless of blade alignment, to make a straight glide, so what exactly is the pro going to see? I'm a one year student. I barely know how to skate. I don't know what an aligned or misaligned blade feels like. It seems to me that blade alignment, according to the info shown here, is something only for expert skaters. After they know how to skate,. and have gone through various sets of skates with varying degrees of misalignment, they will learn what aligned and misaligned skates feel like and can give feedback to their pro on what they need. The rest of us, like Coach Julia for her entire pro career, forget it.

You both look very good together. May be you should marry?😀