Racer's Loop
‘Racer’s Loop’ is used for heel slippage, narrow feet or if you need that increased stability. This technique can help prevent blisters by reducing heel slippage that causes skin friction.
How to create the two extra eyelets at the top of your shoes or boots?
Start with a standard crisscross shoe lacing technique, leaving the final 2 lacing eyelets at the top free
Take the left lace and use it to create a loop in the top left eyelet
Repeat the same process with the right laces
Cross each remaining lace and insert them through the opposite loops
Wide Feet or Bunions
Having too much tightness in the foot can result in squishing the toes together. This can contribute to forming or irritating calluses, corns, blisters or entrap nerves (eg Morton’s Neuroma). Often simply skipping the last shoe lace eyelet can do the trick!
High Arches
Those with a high arch often find footwear too tight in the midfoot area. Higher depth footwear, combined with this specific lacing technique that skips the mid section can help prevent rubbing and pressure which can cause numbness or pins and needles.
Start with a standard ‘crisscross’ shoe lacing method until you reach the highest part of the instep
Insert the laces directly above in the eyelet on the same side (instead of crisscrossing) to provide some extra room in the midfoot
Proceed to crisscross the laces up as per usual
Runner's Black Toenail
Black toenails or painful toenails are often caused by the toenails rubbing on the toe box due to insufficient space or depth. This lacing technique lifts the toe box when you walk or run.
Start by inserting the lace from the eyelet closest to where your big toe sits
Pull the lacing all the way through to the highest eyelet diagonally on the opposite side
With the other lace, criss-cross it across all of the eyelets
At the top, tie the laces as per usual
