How do you break into new Figure skates? SFR ice star-ice skates?

Here are some exercises to break them in: Off ice: Walk around the house (with guards on if a blade has been mounted. Make sure you're bending. Keep the skates on for about half an hour. Heating them up with a blow dryer can help. Squat while wearing your new skates for 10 seconds and then stand up for 10 seconds. Repeat desired amount of times. Bend your knees and ankles slightly, while wearing the skates, and hold for 1-5 minutes. Repeat 2 or 3 times. On ice: Do a lot of swizzles, crossovers, and bending exercises on the ice for warm up. Do a lot of waltz jumps. Make sure you bend on the entrance and landings. After skating for about 20(apprx.) minutes, take your boots off and rest for 10 minutes (apprx.). This way you don't injure your feet. Skate longer if you feel like your feet aren't hurting or don't need rest. Different people can last longer, so get off when you're feet start bothering you. Other: When you tie your laces, don't tie all the way to the top. Leave the last (top) hook. This will allow your ankles andknees to bend more. Wear bunga pads if necessary. The rubbing of stiff boots can give you blisters and etc... If you buy skates that are heat-moldable, those are very easy to break them in. If yours aren't heat moldable, heat the inside with a blowdryer, and then wear them around the house for about 25 minutes. It actually also helps if someone with feet a size (or two) bigger than you wears them. This stretches it out for you. As for how they figure out how long your blade needs to be, it depends on the size of your boot. Sizes of blades are measured in inches (such as a blade size 9 3/4"). The length of the blade is obviously related to the length of your boot. the process they go through is they measure the sole of your boot sole from heel to toe. Subtract 1/4" and, voila, your blade size.

okay, absolute truth. its gonna hurt. a lot. i got my first pair and what skates do is they will eventually mold the inside to the shape of your foot than you will be able to put your foot in like bam. before that it hurts MAKE SURE you laces those things tight i mean tight if you dont you are going to have an unbelievable amount of pain on your anlke just really tie them really tight. it will break in themselves