AFAICT, the toe left-right placement is about right, but the heel placement is wrong, unless she needed that correction.
i really dont think she needs any corrections
Her coach doesnt think so, and the expert didnt tell me he put it on the edge to make any corrections either ...
But none of us have seen your daughter skate, on centered blades or otherwise. We don't know what the fitter saw that made him do what he did.
i dont think he saw her skate on her last skates ever before either.. if you do want to watch her skates she has a fb page with her name jessi jurka... i really cant tell the difference
One result of the shown blade placement is that she would also need to change the direction in which she orients her right foot. If she doesn't need that particular correction, that is a lot to ask of the young lady. In particular, to skate symmetrically, she will need to rotate her right foot clockwise (so the toe moves outwards, and the heel inwards), to go in the same direction as before. Unless she has an asymmetric anatomy, in which the foot orientation and knee/hip orientation do not match (which she might - one of the reasons to talk to the fitter), that may look slightly strange. Figure skating is an appearance sport, and for the most part, I don't think you want a pathological look if you can avoid it. So if her body lines up without a twist in her right leg, I don't think this is the right thing to do.
maybe thats why she got her first blister on her right foot?? she said she felt a lot of pressure and it hurt a lot while she was skating.. I thought it was maybe just the new boots? her left foot is fine though
There is some disagreement about what part of the blade people should skate on. I was taught, by a particular Russian ice dancer, and by his students, to lean my body and boots forwards when skating forwards, and back when skating back. I think that produces a very nice looking posture, in which the lean, blade position, etc., all line up and look similar to what many people use in international style ballroom dance, if I understand correctly (I'm not expert). (Ice dance style seems to me to be a lot more about getting a certain look than about practical ergonomic concerns.) But it is far more common, especially among freestyle skaters, to do the reverse - to lean forwards when skating back, and back when skating forwards, and there are some ways in which that is more practical mechanically. If she has been taught the more common lean pattern, the inside right blade mount will only affect her right forward outside edge, and will not affect the right back outside edge much. It should not affect her left edges at all, though she might be a little awkward switching from foot to foot until she gets used to the aforementioned clockwise rotation she will need in the right foot.
Assuming the common lean patter, with the blade to the inside, it should be easier to reach the FORWARD RIGHT outside edge, but also easier to fall over that edge, so she may be hesitant to use her forward right outside edge, especially at first. If the goal was to force her to use her right BACK outside edge more, mounting the blades to the inside only on the right heel doesn't make much sense to me. However, maybe the fitter judged that she was avoiding her right forward outside edge, and he wanted her to correct that.
I don't suppose the coach could talk to the fitter, and determine if he had a reason for doing what he did?
i wish he would.. hes russian and doesnt speak lots of english and avoids talking on the phone with anyone
the specialist is more than an hour away from where we live so not a chance of having them meet either
If it was me, unless there was a good reason to do otherwise, I would switch to a more normally centered blade placement. I used to mount both of my blades offset far to the left (though I did it both in the heel and toe), because that helped me balance, probably the result of tilted foot bottoms, which were in turn probably the result of somewhat unequal leg length - at least so I think. But that offset made it harder to spin centered, which I have trouble with in any event. So I moved the blades to the centers, and altered the shape of the insoles instead, to better support the left side of my feet. I still have trouble spinning, but centering the blade placement helped a little.
But everyone is different.
PS. I know my explanations tend to be a bit long-winded and hard to follow. That's because I feel such issues to be fairly complicated and unique to the individual. Making a simple explanation doesn't recognize that everybody's body is different. Maybe there is a good reason for what the fitter did.
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thank you for all your information..