The thing about Jacksons and Riedells is that there is not much variance between ball and heel width....in other words, if the ball of your foot is wide relative to your heel, they likely won't fit. Riedell can fit wide feet, you just need to order a large width. Jacksons tend to be wider, as FigureSpins pointed out, but you also need a fairly wide heel, or just not a real narrow one. My feet are wide at the ball and narrow at the heel, so neither Riedell nor Jackson worked for me. I skated in Jacksons for about a week and returned them b/c my heel kept moving around. The only way to get a Jackson that would fit me in both places was to get a custom. I decided to just go with Klingbeil, since their skates had such a good rep. Now I'm looking at Harlicks, but I've been told their heels tend to be a bit higher than Klingbeils, although not as high as SP-Teris, which I was in previously. I actually think it might not be so much the heel but how the footbed is designed. When I first started wearing my Klingbeils, it felt like there was more under the arch, if that makes sense, so my foot felt flatter with something on the middle. That probably doesn't make sense, lol, but I do know that I feel much more stable in the Klingbeils than any other skate I've worn.