BontSkates - Rip Jaws Boot Hot Spot Removal Tool Boot Stretcher - Inline Skates Ice Speed Skates Roller Skates Figure Ice Hockey Skates

what a tool! it widen the hot spots. good for wide feet too!

Great value, works beautifully! This is a great alternative to the bench model. I use it for punching out tender spots on EDEA skating boots,

For a few years I would size up in my skate boot and engage in some seriously creative lacing techniques to accommodate my bunions. I've been skating for 32 years (ugh...) and have never built my own skates, always just kind of grabbed whatever decent boots were hanging around within my budget and sized up until the width of my feet wasn't creating too many problems. At this age though I'm sick to death of compromising and have the means for truly custom skates, and the wider boots available now are absolutely life changing. Between Bont and others like the Riedell Solaris, I FINALLY have real choices. Not perfect, but so much better.Picking these up I waffled a long while, I saw them, and was wildly indecisive. They're pricey. Really not inexpensive for a tool I won't use frequently. Then I looked at my closet. I contemplated. I hate shoes. I hate skate boots. I love skating. I love my new skates. They're still not comfortable and I'm too weird to ask for help. Anytime shoes aren't strictly necessary I'm outside barefoot like an absolute hippie. Driving barefoot (it's legal, google it, I swear), everything. My feet are gnarly, I don't mind in the slightest. I love my feet, bunions and all and I'm not about to surgically alter them and maybe risk more pain for something I've spent my life already dealing with.This fixes that. These worked on all of my boots (I'd do the spot test just to material check depending) and made my life exponentially more comfortable. These are a game changer. The quality is here, this is... super heavy and feels indestructible. Also may work as a home defense object. This dude is crazy. I can't say if it works better than other options out there, but the handle quality and durability of this alone, I feel like this is a much more modern solution and looks like it's just an easier situation to deal with. (Buy it for life in a nutshell.)The packaging here is also glorious, Bont quality. If you know someone who refuses to wear shoes, embarrasses you, has mentioned foot pain, obvious bunions or hammertoes, feet wide in weird places, or is in a league, this is the ultimate gift. Better if they're a skater and have a reference for Bont as a brand.

I’ve played roller hockey for years and also ice skated. We’ve recently moved close to a rink and I got my husband to try skating again as an adult and he loved it. So we bought skates and despite buying good skates we both had hot spots. Then miraculously this thing was suggested for me to try, and it works! Thinking back on all the years I played hockey and had to break in skates without the rip jaws, I feel so bad for my teenage self! If you skate regularly do yourself a favor and get the tool. As others have said, read up on the model of skates you have to see if it needs heat, moisture, etc. but a great tool that helped us want to get out on the rink more.

Definitely doesn’t work in Ice hockey skates .., save your money.