Katy退出世青赛的原因:
I know a lot of you are wondering why I had to withdraw from the World Junior Championships. My boots were really broken down, and even the heel had begun to separate from the boot. We had them worked on to get me through nationals with the plan that I would break in the new boots right after nationals. Then, when I was assigned to Four Continents we had to wait to break them in because there was only one week between nationals and Four Continents.
With four weeks before World Juniors I started breaking in my new boots. Right away things didn't feel right. The right boot felt too small and really hurt my foot, but I thought maybe it was just real stiff since it was the first day. After a couple of days of intense pain, I realized something was wrong. I went to see John at Skate Texas. He has fitted my boots since I began skating 10 years ago. He stretched the back of the boot, so I could get my heel back into it, and that felt so much better!
Now that I wasn't in so much pain I continued to break in my new skates, but I was having problems with my skating that I had never had before with new boots. I was taking some terrible falls, even on footwork, spirals, and flying spins. After a couple days of frustration and beating myself up with crazy falls, I went back to John. He went to the rink with me and repositioned my blades. Wow! I could now do footwork, spirals, and spins without falling! Things were getting better, but I had lost a lot of precious training time. |