I'm a beginner who started three months ago. (I don't mean started freestyle, I mean started standing on the ice and clinging to the boards.)
I've been doing group lessons once a week and practicing about 4 hours a week on my own. I took beginner adult LTS starting in January, and I felt pretty comfortable on the ice right away. I'm going to start "advanced" adult LTS at the end of this month. Currently, I can do very basic skills: snowplow stops, swizzles, ski glides, two foot turns, one foot gliding, backward skating (swizzles, c-pushes, some stroking), and L-pushes. I have a lot of speed and deep edges, according to my LTS teacher.
I am a flat-footed pronator from way back, however, and I have the Riedell R-Fit inserts in my skates (Jackson Elle Fusions) but I am still almost always on my inside edges, even when I think I'm leaning strongly to the outside. I can launch myself into a one-foot glide on my outside edge if I concentrate really really hard, but it's quite a shallow outside edge when I check my tracings, and doesn't last very long before I'm back on the inside edge. Sometimes I'm just on the flat of the blade, and managing to create a curve by angling my shoulders. I don't think the blade actually leans to the outside a lot of the time.
When I bought my skates, I felt too shy to go to Figure Skating Boutique, which is sort of near me, so I ordered online. I measured my feet pretty meticulously, and I still think I ended up in a boot half a size long, and maybe slightly too wide. I'm wondering how much this might be contributing to my struggles with outside edges, and whether it would be worthwhile, at this early point in my skating, to get fitted for different skates and try to sell the ones I currently have? I guess I still feel a little shy to go in and get a professional fitting, though I have since been in for a sharpening and the workers were friendly and helpful.
I'd prefer not to spend more money, but I am completely addicted to skating and would do anything to get out of my own way with skill development. Could I get through the rest of LTS in my current boots and just not worry too much about my outside edges, or is it likely to prevent me from even learning crossovers and other basics? Would it be worthwhile to investigate blade shimming or remounting on my current skates (is this even possible on Elle Fusions?), or better to start from scratch with new skates?
Any advice appreciated.