VNLA X1 - Speed Inline Skates for Men and Women - Carbon Fiber Speed Skate for Men, Women, and Kids - Indoor/Outdoor Skating

An efficient skate. Great quality shoe, simple design, good wheels with ABEC 9. I’m between shoe size 12 and 13, the X1 in size 13 fit perfectly without having to heat shape the heel. Only drawback is the flimsy ratchet buckle for the closing strap. Unless you’re hitting stairs or half pipes, I recommend the low cut shoe and the stable long base of speed skates.

12 year old speed skater loves them!

Bought these for my son...loves them, high quality and they look very sharp with the carbon fiber boot

The skates look sharp for cheaper skates. I like that. They're comfortable and I like the wheels. Little bigger than what I'm used to but overall decent. Upsetting because in all of my years speed skating I've never broken a blade off the boot. Never. Not sure if the bolt is too short or the blade isn't a good fit from the factory but the other person saying they broke a blade leads me to believe its an item malfunction. The blade broke within 2.5 hours of moderate skating. Thank goodness I wasn't going fast and caught myself. Could have been dangerous. Hope is this review is helpful to somebody out there. Happy skating 🤘

The First Day I took these out for a spin before doing the oven mold, I found it very difficult to apply the natural roller blading technique to these skates, The second day I decided to do the oven mold trick advertised in a handout in your purchase. I began to take a wheel off using the tool they provided and the nut just stripped around and this happened to 2/4 wheels. Come on, I know everything is made in china these days, but I was angry, I could not get the wheels off to mold the shoe. Which meant I couldn't change out a set of wheels down the road. I did watch a ton of you tube videos about molding and adjusting the skate to accommodate a lazy left foot. But the female nut just chewed around when I tried to remove the wheels. Thank god for amazon prime, I returned them the next day. The next speed skate with 4 wheels or 3 wheels runs 550, instead of these running 220. Huge disappointment. I Inline on Half pipes at age 47 so I'm not your average beginner on rollerblades.

Anyone who decides to buy these skates. Make sure to use the alan key to tighten up all the screws before taking them for a ride. My skates frame separated from the boot while riding them almost caused me to eat pavement. After there tight and perfectly straight then there absolutely amazing very fast wouldn't say there beginner skates but lightweight comfortable and smooth. I love them and they get alot of looks and compliments.

Frames/wheels ok, but boot is terrible. The boot is way oversized for the size number and there is excessive and very hard foam padding around the ankle. Instead of the boot shaping to your ankle it presses against it causing soreness and welts. Even heat moulding can't fix its problems. This might be good if you have fat Flintstone feet. The wheels are 85A so they're almost too hard for outdoor usage on anything but the smoothest concrete. While the frame is cut for 165mm/195mm, if you try to put a 165mm boot on it, the frame is too far forward. All it really needed was another 15mm of material on the mount points and it would have been fine.

I liked the skates , but understand there are not brakes . This is not for a beginner, rather for advanced inline skaters