Ic3Rabbit
Former Elite, now Pro. ⛸️
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- Jan 9, 2017
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Totally agree with you and I shudder at the adult beginners traipsing around in Ice Flys and Pianos and they can't even pull off a waltz jump yet (yep, I've seen it!!! ) Don't know if they just think they look cool or that they will help them skate better....
but what I think herpawearo was maybe trying to say is that even beginner skates should be "expensive" relative to what the general public thinks (i.e. not the $20 crap you might find at a toy store) so expect to pay a fair amount of money for even the "cheapest" beginner figure skates from a reputable manufacturer. Expensive is relative for people. After a few years of skating I'm not phased by dropping $1300 on boots/blades because I know this is necessary (not that I don't cry for my credit card bill after). My in-laws literally fell off the chair when they caught wind of how much the boots/blades cost for my skater now and they chastised me for "needlessly spending on expensive stuff" when we could "make do" with something much cheaper from Canadian Tire (yep, they said that and claimed I was "spoiling" my child with expensive stuff....of course, they do not understand that you can't wear Canadian Tire skates doing a double flip without risking a bad ankle injury).
I remember naively being shocked that my 3 year old was in $150 skates initially, feeling that it was "expensive", but trusting that it was better to buy proper figurer skates than the plastic ones a lot of parents favor. But if I had put a 3 year old in Edea Concerto with an MK Phantom blade, I'm pretty sure we would have gotten absolutely zero progress (if you could even get them that small....LOL)
Yes, I agree that if they were referring to expensive in reference to some cheap crap in a toy or box sports store then yes, but I fear that they weren't referring to that.
