I am very pleased with these ice skates, my 4 year old has been skating with them about four times a week for the last 5 months and they have been great. She takes private lessons, group lessons, is on a synchronized team and they’re really holding up nicely. She wears a size 9 in normal shoes but I ordered an 11 so she’s would have space to grow and they fit well with a thick sock. Way better than using rental skates! Really made all the difference getting her her own. The blades came unsharpened which cost us $10 to get sharpened, we just had them redone since they were just starting to get dull (again after 4x a week for 5 months) and that was only $5 the second sharpening.