Introduction
I love these skt100 (skt 100) skates. There are a few things that are new about the skt100 skates: (1) wheel spacing, (2) fatness, (3) laces, (4) rockered, (5) heel height, (6) wheel sizes and (7) tongues.
Wheel Spacing
The skt100’s have a different wheel spacing than my old hockey skates. On my old skates, the front wheel is directly under my toes and the back wheel is directly under my heel. The skt100 skates, the front wheel is a bit in front of my toes and the back wheel is a bit in back of my heel. So the wheels are spread out more.
This new wheel spacing helps me and hurts me. It helps me because I have better balance when I am crossing and in akward positions. It hurts me because when crossing, the front wheel of one skate catches into the back wheel of the other skate. So I have to get used to this spacing and move my legs further apart when doing close footwork.
Fatness
Fatness means that the skt100 skates are just fatter in general. They are heavier and fatter and just bigger all around. I can not get my feet as close together as I was able to with my hockey skates only because there’s more padding and plastic. I have to be aware of how close my feet are together when doing the tricks I know.
Laces
The skt100 skates have no laces. I took them out. The old skates have laces. I couldn’t take them out. I hate laces. So because there are two giant clips on the skt100 ones, there are no laces on them. Woo hoo!
Rockered
Holy crap! This changes everything. I can not believe how easy it is to turn my skate. Just skating backwards is so different. I also noticed that the rockering does not last very long. After just 20 minutes or so, I started to notice the wheels getting to be less rockered. Maybe there is a way of skating that I can do where it keeps the rockering. I’ll have to learn some toe and heel tricks to wear the outside wheels down.
Heel Height
This is a major difference. The height of my heel on my old skate was very high because the boot had a heel and because the skate has giant wheels in the back. The skt100 skate has virtually no heel on the boot and the huge wheels are in the middle. The would make one feel like they are always going to fall backwards. This isn’t the case with me tho. The wheels being spread apart further keeps me from that feeling. The combination of the lower heel height and the spread out wheels makes me feel very sticky to the ground. It also makes me lean on and trust the fronts of my skates more. It is easier to go up on my toes for some reason. This will take some getting used to.
Wheel Sizes
The new wheel sizes are good. I bought two sets of wheels: 88’s and 90’s, which isn’t a huge difference and doesn’t make them super rockered but it is a difference. To make me get used to the rockering. Because of the skt100 skates, I also don’t have to worry anymore about the giant wheels in the back and the small ones in the front. These skates standard have all the same size wheels. Another huge plus.
Tongues
The only downfall of the skt100 skates. I love them to pieces but the tongues suck. The sewing on them stinks. There is a giant piece of plastic on the front of the right tongue on the right side that presses into my leg and pinches badly. So what I did is roll a little piece of duct tape into a really skinny tube. Then I duct taped that little tube against the sharp part of the plastic that is sticking out. I tried them on in the house and it’s 100% better!
Conclusion
The skt100’s are just great. I will need to learn to skate all over again with new skates, new rockered, and new socks. (Yes I got new socks. They’re from EMS. I love them.) So it’s true… Before I learn more tricks, I will be learning to skate first, then learning the current tricks, then learning new tricks. The learning to skate first will go really quickly and the tricks will go as fast as I can schedule some personal practices.
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July 22nd, 2006 at 6:25 pm
nice. no pictures? oh and i think you’re wheels aren’t 88 and 90mm, thats the durometer of them.
July 22nd, 2006 at 6:52 pm
Why the hell would they put the durometer on the sides and not the mm??? geez. Confuses the grap outta me. One says 88A and on says 90A… Retarted. Not sure of the sizes then. The point is, the middle ones are bigger than the outer ones. hehe. Pictures come soon.
July 22nd, 2006 at 10:19 pm
they put both the durometer and diameter on the wheels. i think the ones you got put the diameter in inches, to be different.
July 27th, 2006 at 2:18 am
i bought this inline skate shoes last week.The diameter of the wheels are 76mm,80mm,80mm,76mm,and the length of the chasis is 249mm.In
China,we call wheels among which the middle ones are bigger than the outer ones “banana wheel”,because it looks like a banana.i think skt100 is great.it fits my feet very much,so i can cross slaloms more easily.The only disadvantage is that skt100 is too expensive for me,and i have worked hard for it for about one and a half months.But it is worthy,i like inline skate and crossing slaloms.And i found something really cool about skt100 yesterday.A inline skate fan who lives in the same city with me have found skt100 can be changed to a ice-skate shoe.And he have done this.what we need to do is to change its chasis with a ice-skate frame.of course,i think the ice-skate frame must be the product of roces.
i don’t know how to post a pic here.So tell me,plz.Then i will show u a pair of skt100 ice-skate shoes.
July 31st, 2006 at 2:45 am
have received my pics of skt100？
July 31st, 2006 at 8:29 am
Yes and thanks for the images! That ice skate looks awesome.
August 1st, 2006 at 11:57 am
hi,denni
can u do me a favor?i want to know how much a cone costs in average in
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January 14th, 2007 at 5:10 am
Hi, If i would like to have 4 wheels of each skate to be the same size, can i choose 78mm for all of them?
January 14th, 2007 at 9:10 am
Yes 78mm’s should fit. The max wheel size is 80mm.
January 17th, 2007 at 10:04 am
Thank you Denni! =)
April 14th, 2007 at 4:05 pm
is skt100 for slalom?
the boot part really seems not stable enough
November 28th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
Hi.
Good design, who make it?
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October 19th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
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