How It's Made: Speed Skates 

I appreciate being able to revisit these great shows, back in the day when I had cable I would watch these all the time

After going through 3 pairs of off-the-shelf heat moldable racing boots for my inline skates, no matter how many times I warmed them and up reshaped the particular areas, I could never completely rid them of one or more *painful* pressure points in each of the boots. By design, there isn't very much padding in a racing boot, just very stiff carbon fiber. So, after two or three hours of skating and getting squeezed or poked in the same spot on a bone a few thousand times, you can believe it that those pressure spots begin to hurt! And skating 4 or 5 times a week, they stay sore... Then a Pro at a marathon event told me I needed customs because my ankle bones are pretty big and my feet are pretty wide and have a sensitive pinky toe bone. I told him customs are expensive. He said how much did you spend on those three pair of boots that hurt your feet? I said hmmm, you have a point... loll So, he set me up with a boot maker who didn't wrap my feet with strips of plaster cloth, instead he put each foot into its own box, slightly larger than a shoe box. Then he mixed some powder with water and filled each box with my foot in it with the mixture, which then set-up like Jello into soft rubber after a few minutes. Then he sliced through it along the top of my foot so I could lift my foot out. He then filled that negative of my foot with liquid plaster and later stripped the rubber away and had an exact plaster mold of each foot and made the boots around them. After I broke them in and made a couple of minor heat molding tweaks, they fit like gloves! and I've been skating pain free in them for about six years!

WHAT ARE THOSE TOES

"The resin impregnates the carbon fiber" What sick fanfic is this?

I wonder if the workers doing these examples think to themselves “oh boy, I’m gonna be on how it’s made!”

This was a lot more interesting than I thought it was going to be. I had no idea so much work went into making them.

(4:00) So satisfying to watch

I used to speed skate competitively when they had five wheels on them. I miss it. I remember getting my first custom boots, they felt amazing. Still never helped me beat Chad Hendrick during practice sessions, but I sure as hell kept up with him. Wish I had applied myself more in my youth as I probably would have stood next to him at the Olympics.

0:35 i would have appreciated a warning ⚠️

I do figure skating. Why am I so invested in this?!

I definitely didn’t ask for this, didn’t even know what they were but I got it.

SOMEONE NEEDS TO GO TO A NAIL SALON

4:03 I’m sorry the resin does *what* to the *who?!*

Thanks for the upload @sciencechannel

That guy getting the skates, is an absolute unit.

This is the only video that shows how the shell is made.

wtf, i wanted to see how they attached and made the inline wheels haha

Got damn those were some grippers.

That’s awesome, I’ve never seen vacuum bag resin infusion so we’ll. Does the plastic bag stick to the resin? When is that removed/trimmed?

The price on these must be fantastic

One of the biggest skate shops in the country is, Asphalt Beach in Nashville TN.

"Speed dating? I'd be better off speed skating"

The blade holders looked like they could easily be off , he used only his eye to set epoxy..

What a laborious work of precision art. Can't just run down to Wal-Mart to get a new pair.

Nice!!!

Great

This video creates more questions than it answers. Why does the mold sit in a store room? Was the storage room organized by a hoarder?

Is there an episode for regular in line skates?

it only shows the making of the boot, not the actually assembly of the skate or rollers it self.

I had both type of skates. I'm surprised I'm still alive.

Someone has to be serious about skating to get custom-made skates.

Thanks for making this content available

Interesting

Thanks for a beautiful post. .. Diwakar Kumar from West Bengal/BHARAT ;

4:02 it WHATS

4:00 my mind has been blown. wtf lmao

💜✨

Can we all appreciate that he uploads consistently? 💕

Make a video about Anishona

Looks tedious🛼🛼

I wish it would have shown how the wheel brackets and wheels are made and how they're attached to the skate boot.

Nicee

Uh, where did those initial staples go? Aren't they still in there? OUCH!!

Well done! ✔

Looking at thumbnail at first i thought this video is about how to make speed skate cake....

So you're saying they have a foot closet? 🤔

Sicccccccccck!!!!!

Because of this video, I just knew that speed skating sport does exist 😅

How much would a pair of these cost? I bet they ain’t cheap!

How much please

Expected 💓

how about the case of broken boot? is it because the carbon is fake?

Please l need skating speed boots

ALL WHEEL DRIVE

4:02 this sounds really bad man

Poor guy's never going to be able to fix his hammer toes or his fancy skates won't fit anymore

"I'm gonna go get the papers, get the papers."

I need size 47

whos the voice of how its made???????

Um if your using memory foam it remember the tape smh sad days

Put those grippers away

They are speed skates

PUT THOSE GRIPPERS AWAY

Is there no room for socks or are they wearing these barefoot?

This is great but also skipped a lot. heh...

These gotta be expensive..

I am from England where i work as a journalist until i met Expert Mrs AVA. Mrs AVA is legit and her method works like magic. I keep earning every single week with her new strategy.

"The resin impregnates the carbon fiber" Wth

Didn’t roller blading die in the nineties 😂

bruh

Impregnates?????

Eugh feet are so disgusting

Incomplete 😐

If we was meant to have wheels or blades on our feet, God would have made us that way...🤨

Shit, just show half only

Jesus is Alive