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

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.

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

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.

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

0:35 i would have appreciated a warning ⚠️

(4:00) So satisfying to watch

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

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

SOMEONE NEEDS TO GO TO A NAIL SALON

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

Thanks for the upload @sciencechannel

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?

Got damn those were some grippers.

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

That guy getting the skates, is an absolute unit.

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

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

The price on these must be fantastic

Great

Nice!!!

Is there an episode for regular in line skates?

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

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

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?

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

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

Thanks for making this content available

4:00 my mind has been blown. wtf lmao

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

4:02 it WHATS

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

💜✨

Interesting

Make a video about Anishona

Well done! ✔

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

Nicee

How much please

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

Looks tedious🛼🛼

Sicccccccccck!!!!!

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

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

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

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

Expected 💓

Can we all appreciate that he uploads consistently? 💕

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

Please l need skating speed boots

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

4:02 this sounds really bad man

ALL WHEEL DRIVE

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

I need size 47

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

Put those grippers away

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

They are speed skates

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

PUT THOSE GRIPPERS AWAY

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.

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

"The resin impregnates the carbon fiber" Wth

These gotta be expensive..

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