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Tying things up
This is for those of you who tie up your skates with laces. It may be applicable to your boot, it may not. The photos illustrate tying up a quad roller hockey boot because it's easier to demonstrate, but it is applicable to most footwear using laces, walking boots, running shoes, skates. When you tie your boots up, do you find it's very difficult to keep that initial knot tight? You end up with slack laces and your foot can slop about in your boot? Here's a method that I have used with my running shoes and now skates. Quite simple, quite effective. The photos show you how it's done. Fig.1. Thread your laces in the normal way, but don't cross over to the final holes.
Fig.2. Instead of crossing the laces over to the final hole, thread them through the top hole of the side they are already on, so you end up with a loop between the top two holes.
Fig.3. Now take the ends of the laces across the skate and through the loop on the opposite side
When you tighten the laces, you need to ensure the loop is tight against the skate or the laces will work loose again and won't help you at all. It just needs some practice. Keep the loops tight, and they will hold the laces in place while you tie your final knot/bow.
Peter Maisey
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