Does it matter which skates you learn to ice skate with?

We have recently signed up our 4 year son for beginner ice skating lessons to prepare him for ice hockey in the fall. Last week he used the traditional ice skates, but this week we bought him youth size hockey skates and he used those. What is the best way to train him? Do we start with the tradtional skates until he gets a hang of things and then switch him to the hockey skates, or does it matter? Please give me your opinion.

Does it matter which skates you learn to ice skate with?
I would recommend starting him on the type of skates he will be using in the future. It is not that easy to tell from the pictures one of the other people posted in their answer, but hockey skate blades are different than figure skate blades in another way besides just the toe picks. Hockey skates have a %26quot;rocker%26quot; to them where figure skates are much more flat. By starting on figure skates and switching, you will be forcing him to adjust more when he gets to the hockey skates.
Reply:Use hockey skates if he wants to play hockey because hockeys skates are oviously made for hockey and figue skates are oviously made for figue skating.


But also dont use hockey goalie skates


You can tell that there goalie skates by the blade because it%26#039;s flat and not curved like player skates.


Goalie Skate link :http://www.hockeydogs.com/ProductImages/...





Player Skate link


http://pix.summitsportsinc.com/52117.jpg





Figue Skate link:


http://soling.syr.edu/Sol300M001Spring07...
Reply:use the hockey skates, he will have a little more dificultly at first, but you can give him an aid to help at first, more start by pushing a chair. this will help him gain the correct form. figure skates and hockey skates are very different.
Reply:If he is going to play hockey. Let him learn on hockey skates. There is a huge difference in skating in the different skates. I learned to skate in figure skates and then went to learn hockey on hockey skates. The first few tries I nearly broke my neck. The toe pick thing. Use the hockey skates.



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