Boot Queries

Hi

A couple of years ago I went to Tignes and having not been on skis for 10 years and never on snow hired boots. By day three I was crippled. My shins were so painful it felt like the bone wanted to snap inwards. The pain was about 2 inches above my ankle on my shin. I cold not ski anymore.

So next year I decided to buy boots, these were heat moulded and i had insoles put in with bits of foam glued onto them. The guy had me try two boots initially the first pair i said were tight on the foot but comfy on the shin the second better on the foot but there could be a shin issue. He said i should def go for the latter as better to get the foot right first. Went back to the shop twice after buying them as wearing round the house started to get familiar shin ache coming back. He added foam and changed insoles and last year I still had a bit of pain but was only skiing a couple of hours in the morn so was not that bad.

However this year skied a lot more and shins v sore. There is nothing to see no visable bruising but they are sore to touch feel bruised.

My query is should I try find someone to fix these or do they sound like badly fitted boots and I should go somewhere else and start again??? Or do I just not have the fitness levels or not use them enough??

I am in scotland btw.

Thanks for any help!!!

ski angels might be what you need. here's a thread about them:-

http://www.j2ski.com/ski-chat-forum/posts/list/5642.page

good luck :thumbup:

I've tried them no joy!

Take up boarding.

Hi bagpuss19
Have you tried to reposition the clasp on your boot (not only twirl to extend - sorry I dont know the technical terms) I went to 3 ski shops where we were skiing this jan, only the 3rd shop suggested this and the technician just repositioned mine and it was better immediately, I wore my angels for about two more days just as i had bruisng after one morning ski

Magpie

I sometimes have this problem as I have quite large feet and thin ankles and calfs / shins, even with the top buckle on my boots done up tight I would get sore shins or if doing a lot of walking in my boots sore calfs because it felt that my legs was rattling around in my boots. If I had a smaller size boot I could'nt get my feet into them ( I know, I am a funny shape). I got mine adjusted at Hervis Sports here in Romania, they moved my top two buckles a little so I could fasten them tight enough at the top. Before
I did this I cut the feet off an old pair of ski socks (so they looked like leg warmers) and wore them under the boots to see if this helped, it made some difference so i took the boots in to be altered properly.
Just a thought

assuming the fit around the foot is good there are a few thing that can cause the problem you are suffering from

1 the curvature of your shin [from side to side] does not match the cuff angle of the boot, the cuff adjuster on the boot may resolve this
2 the forward lean angle of the boot does not match your ankle joint range of motion, the addition of a heel lift may lift the foot into the correct place and allow the whole of the shin to contact the tongue which should spread the pressure
3 your foot is pronating [collapsing] and you need a supportive footbed to hold it in the correct place
4 you have a very limited flexion in your ankle, again a heel lift or reducing the forward lean of the boot
5 sharp shin bone, the kind that you could slice tomatoes with, trategic padding on the tongue to spread the load across the whole of the tongue

as to who to see??? where in scotland are you?