Measure your feet & determine foot length

Tutorial to measure your feet and determine the right figure skate size

You will need:

  • two DIN A4 sheets of paper
  • a sharpened pencil
  • a ruler
  • a tape measure

Determining the foot length

Graphic showing how to go round the foot with a pencil
First Graphic showing how not to go round the foot with a pencil
Second Graphic showing how not to go round the foot with a pencil
  1. Take off your socks or use thin socks without seams.
  2. Sit on a chair that allows you to have a right angle between your thigh and lower leg.
  3. Place an A4 sheet of paper under one foot. Place your foot on the sheet at a right angle, as straight and centred as possible. Make sure that the whole foot is on the paper.
  4. Now take the pencil and outline the foot. Make sure that you hold the pencil vertically the whole time.
  5. Now take the foot off the sheet and use the ruler to draw a straight line parallel to each other and to the sheet at the top and bottom.
  6. Next, measure the distance between the two lines and note the length on the respective sheet..

Repeat steps 1 to 6 for the second foot. The foot lengths may differ. The longer foot is crucial for the correct shoe size.

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Determining the foot width

Graphic showing how to correctly measure the width of the ball of the foot
First Graphic on how not to measure the foot width at the ball of the foot correctly
Second Graphic on how not to measure the foot width at the ball of the foot correctly
  1. Take off your socks or use thin socks without seams.
  2. Sit on a chair that allows you to have a right angle between your thigh and lower leg.
  3. Place the tape measure under the ball of your foot.
  4. Now measure the circumference of the ball of your foot. Run the tape measure past the root of the little toe and the root of the big toe. The tape measure may be slightly crooked.
  5. Read off the size and write it down on the A4 sheet of paper for that particular foot.

Repeat steps 1 to 5 for the second foot. It is possible that the foot widths are different. The wider foot is crucial for the correct shoe width.

Using the values determined, you can read the appropriate shoe size from the table here.