We lose a lot of beginner skaters because this information is either hard to find or brands and even some shops straight out hide it to just mindlessly sell their inventory quick. I went through 4 pairs of skates before I discovered how a perfect fitting skate feels like, not everyone has that kind of patience.

I needed this video 2 weeks ago! I already bought some skates (RB Crossfire) and found out while skating that it was too big. I am trying to return it. I hope to buy something from you soon. Thanks for your videos that have helped me a lot. Greeting from Zürich

Best video about sizes and downsize, really pay attention to this guy, probably is the best helping you to improve your skate im 10 years experienced pro roller if i know this at the beginning I preciated a lot ❤

Everything in this video is spot on. Using an extra or different insole fixes 90% of my fit issues (that's after buying the best fitting shell in the first place of course). Thanks for providing the spreadsheet. I think it was missing a lot of new models the last time I used it, but for a 27cm foot there was only really one option with a 280mm internal length (M12). Yikes. Look forward to visiting soon.

Looking forward to the video about the shell width! Such a frustrating topic for us with wide feet.

Super appreciate all the very in depth videos you guys make. Absolutely critical information for people to have the best skating experience possible!

12:40 real life advice for boys 😂 Jokes aside, I wish this video was around when I got my 1st skates in 2021.

My left foot was usually fine, but I could never get my right foot tight enough. After checking without the liner it was clear my boots are actually too big. However, I put the soles of my running shoes in, tightened the laces a bit and now they fit really well now. Huge difference. Does not feel lose at all anymore and it skates much better, I can get them as tight as I want now.

I have a pair of FR1 Deluxe in the 41 size/8.5-9.0, but the Size 7 shell size is a bit small for my 265ish mm foot. I found the measured foot sizes on FR size charts to be pretty accurate.

I recently got into rollerblading and absolutely love your channel! Such great information here! I live in the UK but plan to visit Amsterdam later this year and would love to pop in for a Friday evening run :)

I'm somewhat a beginner skater. Made a mistake on my first pair of skates buying upsized. My normal shoe size is 41 and the shell is for 43/44. The only reason at first I felt it was ok was that the liner was thick and it fits comfortably, which I realized after a few skating sessions that its too big and felt like I'm skating in "clown shoes". Now on my second pair of skates, I bought a size 41/42 skates. Now even though it's better, without the liner it's got 2 fingers space. I feel like I should downsize.. Maybe for my next pair of skates.

8:00 Your videos are by far the best, most comprehensive ones I've found so far. Just wondering if you happen to have an idea of when we can expect the widths video? Even just knowing the widths of the wider-fitting pairs would be extremely helpful!

This is a great video. So when I try to tight the laces the most I can, my feet get numb, and then I need to back up a little bit. I got a Twister XT and I was using the insert to make them tighter, replace the insole with a superfeet and then they were too tight. I remove the insert and it feels way better, but still my heel gets numb. I am using Intuition V2 with it. Any advice? Thanks!

Unfortunately, the staff at my local skate shop didn't help me buy the right size of the shell, and I knew nothing about skates and skating back then. My Imperial shell is a size too big for me, thankfully with the Myfit Fat Boy liner and 2 insoles they work for regular fitness/urban skating just fine. With all the info from your videos and personal experience, I'll be able to buy skates in the right size next time. Thanks for all the hard work you put into making your videos!💙

Great tips! If I did not like Sweden so much, your shop would tempt me to stay a summer in Amsterdam!🤣 👍🏾🙏🏾 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇸🇪🇹🇹

Just flew from Portugal to Amsterdam and your store was the perfect excuse to do it 😅 I tried some different skates and in the end the Roces M12 LO TEAM BUIO size 44 I think we're the perfect match (and I'm a 42 +) Let's see now when I put some ride on those how it will feel.

I have super super wide flat feet. I ended up being recommended some pretty big FR1 skates to get the larger shell. I think it is actually FRs largest shell so I would have the smallest liner in the largest shell. I have the stock FR1 liners and orthotic insoles from my snowboard boots that were custom made. In the end I still had issues with the width and heat gunned the crap out of my arch and outside edge of my boot to help with this. Now as I am skating better and more I do not have much foot pain but I am getting some heel lift. Other than adding some boomerangs on the heel area is there anything to do to take up some room between boot and liner? Are there thick AF intuition type liners that I could mold into the correct fit?

I'm from Bangladesh 🇧🇩 I wish you were here so I could visit your shop to buy some. But Thank I'm a beginner, I just bought a normal softboot to practice few month ago and now I'm thinking about to buy a hardboot and this information will help me alot. Oh by the way do you think If I tell you all of my foot measurements you can ship a pair of good skates? Or I should try on my own in any local shop to buy perfect? Thanks again ❤

Will the arch assist of a superfeet insole essentially shorten my feet marginally inside the skate? Higher arch but shorter overal length of ‘relaxed’ foot? I am asking because my feet at relatively flat and I could do with a couple of mm less length for more comfort. I have faction tactical size 46 (305 mm inside shell length with the US size 12 stock liner)… I love the width of the liner and puffiness at the top… Tried my Iqon prime liners and with those my toe no longer touches the front but the liner is too thin to fill the width of the skate and lock me in… Hence I would love to use an insole with a higher arch support to dial in the setup to perfection (if it works the way I envision)… what do you think? Will it work? I am also thinking the higher resulting arch on the top of my foot will make it easier for the laces to push my foot further back into the shell when properly tightened. Edit: just watched the rest of the video and you actually explain it works the way I hoped ^^

I've just bought myself a set of usd sway 57's and was thinking i bought the wrong size. I'm now wearing them round the house until i get out on them to break them in!😂

Im Brazilian and here traxart is a very popular skate company. I have the "traxart green" rollerblade. The liner fits tight and perfect, but the shell is 3 fingers bigger than my feet! I aways felt the skate was way too heavy, now I know the reason. The shell is too big, and the liner they made for these has really thick cushion on the cuff area, making both buckle straps close really tight. I regret not knowing about this before buying...

Do you have a video about the frame set up. Most frame you can move to the left en right.

We may have inspired this video or maybe this was in the pipeline already (myself and girlfriend got the chance to be in amsterdam over the weekend 😄and got the chance to try on skates for the girlfriend; next pair will definitely be gotten from thisissoul!) For the 8:11 part of the video, for any other wide footed people as a wide feet anomaly (roughly ~245x105mm flippers for reference): You can't beat going into the shop but from personal experience and reddit browsing; I think the Rollerblade RB for freeskate and Roces 5th elements for aggressive are probably one of the best wide feet choices My only personal regret would be following the mondopoint too closely; currently I'm using an EU40/UK6 5th Element Shell with a RL2 medium liner for a pretty good fit. When the Aeon V2 comes out hopefully next year I might be able to justify another pair and try the EU42 shell (EU40 even with a second skin liner was slighly too cramped but useable)

For toe joint and toe nail health i recommend not to squeeze your toes into the toe box. We all know how damaged female feet are if women have chosen too small pumps.

The insight about avoiding smaller stock liners in dual sized shells has been really helpful! I have been comparing size 39 and 40 liners in the FR Neo 2 39-40 and can barely see or feel a difference between them, now I understand why. The question I'm pondering now is whether the 39-40 shell will be the right size when I eventually put an intuition liner in it in the future. FR haven't released their Neo 1 Intuition sizing yet, curious to see which shell they pair with which liner size.

Thank you for all explanations. I have one unique pair of Rollerblades because here is too expensive and my Feets are huuuuge. So i had no choice but picking one that its ok Size, it doesn't hurt my thumbs , but it kills my ankles. People told me to use better socks, but even with socks and trying to improvise with some fluffy materials(That helps a little) after like 40 minutes i start to feel ankles, both feet :(

I got the Powerslide Next and I have some trouble getting in/ out. When i'm in the skate though it feels okay and very responsive except for some pressure on the left ankle. I'm not sure if this would get better with heat molding/ breaking in the liners.Are they too tight/ should i get a differently shaped shell?

Trying to downsize I went down 2 sizes (and 2 shells). The new skates have about 8mm gap in length behind my bare foot. Is there any liner that can accommodate such low available space?

Hello lovely bladies and thisissoul-team, thanks a lot for this really informative and crisis-inducing video! :D i have just concluded (after feeling it for a couple of weeks of somewhat intense skating) that my seba e3s are one solid size too big. now i am torn between getting another pair a size smaller or stuffing the skates i have into oblivion and beyond. to be honest i don't feel like doing the latter, since I'd like my power to be translated to the wheels and not lost in an eternity of padding. do you guys know of a direct way of exchanging or selling/buying used skates? if i get a fitting (new) pair, I'd probably like to sell my larger ones. any resources on that? is there maybe a service, that refurbishes skates? thanks in advance 🙏🏻

i want 5th element yuto gotos but for some reason i cant find my size. i am 27.3 cm so i sould be a 10 but everywhere i got 10 is missing or people have different sizes which i found confusing

I have a question for FR iGors. When I wanted some premium slalom skate like the HC Evo Pros I ordered them in EU46 (which have a 296 mondopoint suggestions). I touched the toebox with my 2nd toe where it really hurt so I returned them. That's why I ordered the iGors in EU47 (suggested MP is 30). My feet measured 303mm with MyFit socks (since I skate in them). But after a while and my slalom skills advanced a bit aswell the skate feels a bit too loose. Looking at FR size chart for the iGors the EU47 is for 30,5cm measured feet, and EU46 for 30cm measured feet that suggests a MP of 29.5. Did I make the right choice with EU47 though? I did my reasoning due to MP 29.6 for PS HC Evo Pros being too short. I did counter some wobbling or loose feel by using waxed laces. I would try them in EU46 but ordering them just to return them either way to time wasting (climate unfriendly aswell). There is no shop at all for not only such high-end models for mid-levels aswell. Only shop is Decathlon.

I scoured through your website for a bit but was unable to find a centralized "internal shell length" table as stated in the video? Is it really there?

Are the Wizard Base Intuition liners as thin, if not, thinner than MyFit Second Skin liners? Or a bit thicker?

I am skating a Seba trix 2 which I think ended up being too big for me. I put an insole in it but in order to get it tight enough, I have to tighten the laces so tight that it squeezes my foot laterally so hard it's excruciating after about ten minutes and I have to loosen them. I'm concerned downsizing (or right-sizing) won't be better since my feet seem too wide but not tall enough. There is too much space at the toe as well. Any advice?

I hear you about the toes needing to touch the front of the boot, but if your toes have to curl when you're in a neutral position, is the boot too small? I ask because I think I'm between sizes. Based on my foot length, I'm at the uppet end of a 41 and in a 41 boot, my toes feel crammed right up at the front in a way that feels cramped and like it will hurt after not very long (I have a high arch already so I don't think I can make my foot much shorter). In a 42, my toes are close to, but don't touch the end of the boot, although the rest of the boot feels very snug. Any advice?

I would like my skates to fit a little more snug, unfortunately, they’re a softboot. K2 VO2 90. Since proper liners are not available for softboots, could you us a 5mm thick scuba dive sock as a “liner”? It makes sense to me but wouldn’t mind your opinion please. Thank you.

Most Powerslide freeskates is not for wide bigger shaped ancles and feet - will recommend Seba or FR for those feet!

Can you help me please! 24 cm foot and I really like rollerblade rb cruiser w) but the only one shop is in about 87 km!!! So I have to buy it only in online shop! Which size I should buy?)) now I use fila fitness but it's really not good for urban)))

Are the superfeet insoles placed inside the liner?

I almost gave up because I still can't even push forward properly. My skates are broken in and I can lift front and back of my feet that makes me feel uncomfortable/uncontrolled. Thanks for the information. Will buy new skates😊

How do you feel about heel shock absorber that comes velcro'd to intuition premiums heel? Hurts performance?

For FR1 stock liners and 266/264 mm feet, width: 10.5/10.6mm, the 40 Eu size should work right? I know it gonna be unbearable the first several sessions!??? Thank you for all the info you provide...

My foot is 28,5 cm. It is really annoying to skate with yahts on my feets.

What would you do in case of overweight skaters? That the cuff in many can’t close Tbh I’ll have a bigger cuff installed but Frx a nice tight fit in 42 besides the back of the cuff the upper part, that’s not tight that kinda hurts without trying to lace it up with anything But those have fat fat liners. Then there is rollerblade lightning that new one. Without tightening anything it’s like a good fit,doesn’t hurt, like if you stuck your foot in a pillow, also size 42 The thing is, changing the thing to clasp the cuff will kill my warranty outright, while frx is only a change of the plastic 😅 Hard choices 😮

But how tight is too tight? If I am getting pain then it's probably too tight? I have some extra length but the width is a bit tight. Sometimes my toes and ankle feel compressed. I get cramped pain on my big toe and pinky toe. I usually wear my skates somewhat loose for this reason. If I try to buckle up tight my ankle feels really tight or compressed. I intentionally bought a wider fitting skate because I knew I have wide feet. But it doesn't seem to be wide enough. One day I thought are skates not meant to be buckled up tight. So I tried doing so instead of wearing them as loose as I normally do. My legs and ankles around the buckles were sore for more than a week. I maybe tightened the buckles too much and didn't tighten the laces enough. Regardless thank you for the information! It really helped me better understand how skates fit. And hopefully from now on I can have a good fitted skate.

The real question is how do you shove your hand in the boot while wearing to check if it’s finger width. Things too tight to get down there. Use a pen of similar width maybe?

got the fr1 size 45 today My foot Length: 28cm Width: 11cm the skates are too big (1cm from toe to inliner and at least 1,5 cm from inliner to shell). i ordered today size 44. keep you updated #1 update so i got the fr1 in size 44 - in my opionion there are still way too big like thisissoul said. I can fit 2 fingers with my feet in the shell and also when i try the skates with the liners i still got something around 1,5 cm place. Personally i dont think it's that bad for now but when the skates brake in it will be eventually too big. So i orded now the fr1 in sizes 42 and hopefully this will be the right sizes. eventually i will make a video of all 3 skates for u guys 2# so i got the fr in size 42 and it's just like in the video. my toes are touching the the front of the inliner and they are pretty tight. Unfortunately so tight that it kinda hurts my front toes because i have no space and feets are going numb. but i think they are right ones. between the inliner and shell i have at least 1 cm.

I almost give up on inline skates. I think I wanna switch to skateboard. After a YEAR with no progress at all. I work at the restaurant 6 days a week day to night so I only have 1 day a week to practice inline skating. At first I taught it was my posture and strength. Maybe it is. Tons of video I watched on yt all about posture. I never taught it was my skates size. A lot of people (on the internet) recommend to buy skates one size up my normal shoes and I do that. I never find this video until today. Year after no progression. When you talk about firm handshake mine didnt feel like it. More like a lose handshake on the front. I never take out the liners out my skates because there's no use for me. Today my first time I take it out and try it without the liner and my god that's way too big! It's like the one on your thumbnail. I never blame my skates before because I taught it's normally feel like that. Others practice inline skating for only two weeks and skates like a pro on week 3 while im still like a baby even after 1 full year! Rn I'm tryna sell my current skates for cheap and get one suitable for my size.

I have wide feet so my toes never fully touch the skates

I don't get it he says superfeet insoles add to length I. One section of vide and in another it substracts from it🤷‍♂️ the way I see it math would suggest that it would add to length since you add to Haight. Can someone elaborate?

Hello you guys shipping to Germany ???

Where is the youtube short about how to tighten your laces that you said would be linked in the description? Update I found it on the side videos but not in description do better. :)

Please please please tell the brands to also do width sizing. It's really awful how none of the brands put out their width and ankle volume measurements.

rollerblade 42-45 with liner 43. It's terrible

My toes go numb after a while, so that's not good lol