Today marks 8 1/2 weeks (14 hours on ice) since I took skating up again, with my own skates. There's been drama with foot pain and whatnot, which I think mostly was my feet acclimating to the new boots. I *am* now dealing with a bit of lace bite, but pop some Advil before skating and try to loosen up the laces and hope it'll eventually go away. Also need to get the boots punched out a bit, they seem to have shrunk a little....
I am having a HECK of a time with my one foot glides. I can only hold them, at best, for 2 seconds, and both sides I wind up curving drastically inside. Can't glide straight to save my life.
Today, I brought my husband along to film me. It wasn't a good video job, but I can see what I have suspected recently - I am leaning on my inside edges, especially my left foot. Pretty obviously. I haven't got a shot of a 2 foot glide, so I don't know if I'm on the flats or not (I think I am). I've stood next to a reflective surface on the boards, and just standing it looks like at least my left foot is on the inside edge. I never had this issue when I skated as a teen.
I do pronate, I've already addressed this once with the skate tech. He already moved the left blade inside and put a wedge under the insole, when I got the blades mounted. He was particular about me testing them out by standing on a board to see if they were straight, so I don't know what he'll say.
I'm having my first private lesson Saturday, hopefully the coach will be willing to film me more closely so I can show it to the skate tech. The only thing is, I don't know how normal this is as a beginning skater, whether it will work itself out, or if I need shims. I really feel like I'm comfortable enough now that I shouldn't be leaning in to 'protect' myself, I am feeling that this needs shims to correct.
I've got fairly nice slaloms (though not really getting on my outside edges), can stroke properly (except not being able to stay on one foot long), though I did notice today at a quiet session that my right foot seems to scrape up snow, and started chasses today. But I truly feel like I should be farther along now and it's this darn edge thing holding me back.