Thursday night:
I had those skates on my feet for TWO HOURS straight! The bottoms of the back of my heels were numb when I took them off - I have never experienced something like that. I did some apprehensive waltz jumps for the 1st them in them - OMG! I am in love with these blades! I tried to spin, but just doing the prep was hard, because when I do back x overs in these, the blade seems to pull further out and I need to learn to control that sharp curved edge right before stepping in to the 3. Well, I managed about 4 revolutions in a crazy position. I figured out that if I adjust the tongue a certain way, the ankle bone overgrowth spot does not hurt (these tongues have 2 hooks on the middle of each of them, so when laced a certain way, the tongues will stay exactly in the place I put them), so I will just keep doing the tongue at that angle.
Friday afternoon:
I skated in them for 1 hour (only had 1 hour to skate). I did a lot of waltz jumps, did a few toe loops... I need to get used to the toe picks. I started to do a salchow, but chickened out because I need to get comfortable with my 3-turns. I managed to get in a couple of spins with about 8 or 10 revs... I imagine it will take me a while to find "the spot" and hit it consistently with these blades.
I have decided that I will get the front part of the toe boxes stretched, just the area in front of the 2nd lace eyelet. I definitely need to get the bunion spot punched on the left one - there was so much pressure there that the bunion was all white for a while after I took off the skates (bunions are like skin stretched over bone with no soft tissue in between, and this bunion is really big like a large marble, ugly, and sometimes painful... thanks to the Reidell toe boxes of my youth).
If I can get the guy to punch these tomorrow afternoon, I may stay after work at the rink and skate in them a short time. Otherwise, I will wait until Tuesday to skate in them again. Either way, I will leave them for stretching, so they will be stretched when I go Tuesday.
I have been doing all this with a broken pinky toe on my right foot. It hurts worse in my shoe walking than it does in my skate skating. That's what I get for having a bunch of junk on the floor (mostly reef aquarium plumbing pieces, PVC, several other aquarium-related pieces of junk, and a couple of tools...) (it's interesting how both of my favorite - and most expensive - hobbies involve water).