adjustable tour skates

**2ballscrewball** · 04-08-2008, 10:57 AM

what are the thoughts on the adjustable tour skates for kids?

Does anyone have them? or know someone who does?

Tour ZT 660 Adjustable Roller Hockey Skates are the specific ones I am talking about. (couldn't post a link)

Buying new $70-$100 skates every year to accommodate a growing foot seems unreasonable.

I am scared an adjustable skate is not going to offer protection and support like a non adjustable would.

does anyone know anyone who uses these?

This would be for a 7 year old's 1st inline hockey league

**5280** · 04-08-2008, 11:06 AM

Originally Posted by 2ballscrewball

Tour ZT 660 Adjustable Roller Hockey Skates are the specific ones I am talking about. (couldn't post a link)

Buying new $70-$100 skates every year to accommodate a growing foot seems unreasonable.

does anyone know anyone who uses these?

This would be for a 7 year old's 1st inline hockey league

We had some for our son when he was 6 or 7. He actually outgrew them from a performance standpoint long before he outgrew them in terms of size.

For our kids, until they hit about 9 or 10, we bought used skates from Play It Again and traded them in when they outgrew them. We bought new wheels and bearings, but used boots.

**Phelan96** · 04-08-2008, 12:06 PM

I bought the Mission SX Adjustable Skates for my 4 year old nephew, I think they are a little big for him just yet but he'll be able to use them for the next 2 or 3 years.

He never skated before but just looking at his progress over the 9 or 10 times he's been on them I'd highly recomend them.

http://www.inlinewarehouse.com/descpage-SX.html

**2ballscrewball** · 04-08-2008, 02:51 PM

Originally Posted by 5280

We had some for our son when he was 6 or 7. He actually outgrew them from a performance standpoint long before he outgrew them in terms of size.

For our kids, until they hit about 9 or 10, we bought used skates from Play It Again and traded them in when they outgrew them. We bought new wheels and bearings, but used boots.

My play it again sports has many rec/fitness type skates, but no hockey type skates.

**2ballscrewball** · 04-08-2008, 02:59 PM

Originally Posted by Phelan96

I bought the Mission SX Adjustable Skates for my 4 year old nephew, I think they are a little big for him just yet but he'll be able to use them for the next 2 or 3 years.

He never skated before but just looking at his progress over the 9 or 10 times he's been on them I'd highly recomend them.

I saw the missions. Their smaller skate ends at a size 13 which is close to the size my kid is in now. The tours end in a size 1 so I would be able to get 2 size increases out of them. The Missions also have outdoor wheels and the Tour has something that could be used inside and outside.

They do look very similar though

**5280** · 04-08-2008, 03:03 PM

Originally Posted by 2ballscrewball

My play it again sports has many rec/fitness type skates, but no hockey type skates.

Many (most?) of the guys who work at the Play It Again by us play inline, some for PIHA. Plus, the closest SIHA rink is about 2 miles away and there's some city-owned outdoor rinks where they play a decent version of youth league hockey.

So, our store has probably 80% hockey skates.

**DannyG** · 04-12-2008, 09:59 PM

we have several kids in our program who have the Mission or Tour adjustables...either is a good starter skate, the comment above that theplayer developed the need for a higher performance skate before physically outgrowing them is right on the mark.

For years, and five pairs of skates for our daughter, we would peruse the internet weekly, all the major warehouse dealers...we would find the next size she would need at some point, and buy them ahead of time. We would look for last-years, or even two-year's-ago models that were drastically on sale...always got the $299-$399 models for anywhere from $79-$129. We'd put the new skates in the closet until she came to us and said it was time for the new skates.

This worked extremely well for us, as our daughter hated to get into new skates, she'd wait until she absolutely couldn't stand the old ones any more.

I recommend the procedure highly.

**2ballscrewball** · 04-14-2008, 08:10 AM

Originally Posted by DannyG

we have several kids in our program who have the Mission or Tour adjustables...either is a good starter skate, the comment above that theplayer developed the need for a higher performance skate before physically outgrowing them is right on the mark.

For years, and five pairs of skates for our daughter, we would peruse the internet weekly, all the major warehouse dealers...we would find the next size she would need at some point, and buy them ahead of time. We would look for last-years, or even two-year's-ago models that were drastically on sale...always got the $299-$399 models for anywhere from $79-$129. We'd put the new skates in the closet until she came to us and said it was time for the new skates.

This worked extremely well for us, as our daughter hated to get into new skates, she'd wait until she absolutely couldn't stand the old ones any more.

I recommend the procedure highly.

Yea, I did not go with the Tour adjustables. My son put on a pair of Bauer Mega series that he loved the look and feel of. They were leftover mark downs, about half price.

Now the new problem is they came with 78a wheels. The wheels are advertised as an indoor/outdoor wheel. The truth seems like the wheels are too soft for outdoor, they are getting tore up. If they end up to hard for indoor I will put out a minimum of $50 for 2 sets of replacement wheels.

It never dawned on me that wheel selection should have been so important.

Do you think 78A will be OK for a sports Court or should I go softer? My sons 50 lbs.