I need some skate advice. My munchkin started in Snowplow 1 at the beginning of this year, and she has really taken to skating. She takes two 1/2 hour private lessons per week and a half hour of LTS. Right now, she's working on the usual stroking/gliding/edges and starting two-foot spins. While she isn't a super competitive kid, she has a couple of competitions coming up and she is really motivated to keep learning new elements. She's in a pair of Jackson Excels now and she's perfectly happy in them. We bought them not really knowing if she was going to stick with skating, but knowing that her wide feet were getting really uncomfortable in her Reidell 110s. My question (finally) is how soon, if at all, we're going to need to upgrade. I've been looking at the ratings on the Jackson and Reidell lines and, while I definitely don't want to be that parent who overboots her beginning skater, I also want to make sure my DD's is getting what she needs to do well with all of the work she's putting in. Thanks in advance for any advice you may have.
PS- We haven't consumed enough Koolaid to buy a Zuca bag. Yet.