How to lace a shoe for a high instep...

How to lace a shoe for a high instep:
Chris Peake: Hi, Chris Peake from Zappos performance team. Today I'm going to show you a lacing technique that will actually help you out if you have a really high arch or a high instep. How that's going to work is we're going to lace the shoe up and give you a little bit more freedom through your instep area or through your higher arch. How you do that is start from the bottom and you lace normally on the first and second set of eyelets. Then what you're going to do, and a lot of running shoes these days will have these feeling laces that will allow you to tighten or loosen this as much as possible. But on this particular shoe what we're going to do is lace this through the same side, lace this through the same side, so we're not going to actually cross these over at all. I'll show you an example on this with a shoe that doesn't have feeling lace system as well. You then cross over and lace your shoe normally. So now you have a normal fit up top, but you allow your instep to come through. If you have any pressure points in the top then that could be really annoying and leave you some bruises, or just not a very comfortable fit. So high instep, or a higher arch really allow you to buckle down the forefoot and the top of your foot, but leaves that area in the middle nice and open so you don't have those pressure spots. OK so on a shoe that doesn't have feeling laces and just has a normal lacing pattern like this 2140 here what we want to do is lace this normally. Wherever you have that high instep pattern, wherever you feel that pressure - Some people like to take lipstick, for example, and put it on top of their sock, or their shoe then stick their foot in there and wherever that lipstick imprint is on the inside of your shoe, that's the area you skip over. So for all intents and purposes what we're going to do is pretend that area's right below this little loop here. So if you have a pressure spot here we're going to lace our shoe pretty normally through the first two eyelets. Then we're going to skip this little area here. We're actually going to keep the lace on each side. Then we're going to lace back over and cross back over. So again just like the shoe with the feeling lacing we now create a tight fit at the bottom, tight fit at the top, and we allow this to a little bit looser of an area. Now if you have this problem, and you have it widespread meaning it starts a little bit low and it works all the way up. You could skip more than one lace if you want to. So if we were to take this eyelet out right here, and we were going to go straight to this top eyelet, you can also do that. So the higher your arch is, probably the more pressure that you have on that instep area. Now if we lace this through the top here. It works the same way; it gives you a little bit more freedom through the midfoot, or through your higher instep or higher arch area. So you can see how much room you have here to work with. Now those are your two ways to lace a feeling shoe, and a non-feeling shoe, traditional lacing system, if you have a high instep area.

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[Glendale41]

I wear orthotics and they raise the foot so much it causes my foot to feel tight against the tongue of the shoe. Its unbearable tightness. I am going to try this lacing pattern and hopefully it helps. You would think the clerks in these running shoe stores would know about this type lacing for this problem. Thanks.

[validitynow]

God Bless You!!!! This has changed my life!

[akaenrique509]

Thanks sir