I've been thinking about why many kids have so much trouble getting onto and holding their outside edges. This is very noticeable when you try to teach kids to hold outside edges, or to do crossovers and half-swizzle pumps.
Part of this is obviously psychological - if you tilt without control onto your inside edge, the other foot is there to stop you from falling, whereas if you lose control towards the outside edge, you likely fall.
But maybe beginner level boots and blades (which come pre-mounted) are deliberately balanced to make it easier to reach and hold your inside edge. And maybe boot fitters who mount blades do the same thing, then modify that as the skater advances?
I used to have an (ice dance) coach who spent a lot of time making all his students do twizzles, even semi-beginner ones. I discovered that it was easier for me to hold the twizzle position if I balanced my skates so that it took exactly the same amount of muscular effort to reach and hold an outside edge as to reach and hold and inside edges. Also, I balanced them so that as I put weight on a foot, it would not systematically collapse towards one edge or the other. (I do this using a combination of blade offset and insole modification.)
Whereas, when I walk (and I think when most people walk), the outside ("lateral longitudinal") arch collapses more than the inside ("medial longitudinal") arch, at first, after I roll forwards off the heel onto my midfoot. And the inside arch collapses more as I roll onto my toes. That double rockover is sometimes stated to be part of a "normal" walking and running stride, that lets you use some of your muscles for propulsion in somewhat the same way that you do in a power pull.
First off, is making it equally easy to balance and hold either edge, and eliminating assymetric collapse, as I prefer, actually a pathological way to balance feet?
Second, are beginner skates deliberately set up to favor inside edges, and inside collapse?
Third, how do most of you who have confident inside and outside edges prefer those balances and arch collapses to work, for figure skates?