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Good diagram. The shaded area at the ankle is where you need to attach some dense stick-on foam. Dense enough to be barely compressible.
This can go inside or outside the liner.
It will draw the foot back, and prevent it from sliding forwards.
Shipjack have you had a diabetes test as this also causes your toe nail or nails to be affected as in fungal infection & you don't have to be obese to get type 2.
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Started by NellyPS in Ski Technique 19-Nov-2012 - 48 Replies
Verbier_ski_bum
reply to 'Black toenails' posted Nov-2012
I've had it happened twice. My right foot is half-size smaller, so I do have some room there. I've started wearing protective cap on my big toe and it seems to work. I also wear thicker socks in spring mashed potatoes snow.
Andymol2
reply to 'Black toenails' posted Nov-2012
Either your boots aren't long enough or they are long enough but too loose so your toe slides down and hits the end of the boots.
Andy M
AllyG
reply to 'Black toenails' posted Nov-2012
Nelly - if he's still got the receipt couldn't he go back to the boot shop and ask for the boots to be re-fitted as he has a problem with them?
When I went back to the shop with mine last week (although I haven't got a problem with them), they very carefully checked them. I have one foot 2mm longer than the other one - but it doesn't seem to matter when I'm ski-ing.
Mind you - I suppose you could always begin by measuring his feet yourself, and see if they are a different length.
It sounds horrible painful. I remember when my toe-nail went black and fell off after I broke my big toe and that hurt :cry:
So I hope you find a solution to this for him :D
When I went back to the shop with mine last week (although I haven't got a problem with them), they very carefully checked them. I have one foot 2mm longer than the other one - but it doesn't seem to matter when I'm ski-ing.
Mind you - I suppose you could always begin by measuring his feet yourself, and see if they are a different length.
It sounds horrible painful. I remember when my toe-nail went black and fell off after I broke my big toe and that hurt :cry:
So I hope you find a solution to this for him :D
SwingBeep
reply to 'Black toenails' posted Nov-2012
Does he have skinny ankles and wide feet? If there is too much space above the ankle (a) then the foot can slide forward and hit the shell (b).
Dave Mac
reply to 'Black toenails' posted Nov-2012
SwingBeep wrote:Does he have skinny ankles and wide feet? If there is too much space above the ankle (a) then the foot can slide forward and hit the shell (b).
Good diagram. The shaded area at the ankle is where you need to attach some dense stick-on foam. Dense enough to be barely compressible.
This can go inside or outside the liner.
It will draw the foot back, and prevent it from sliding forwards.
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Lilywhite
reply to 'Black toenails' posted Nov-2012
I used to have that problem. I have very muscular calves, I needed the back of my boots flared to accomodate them and an additional elastic booster strap to stop toe bang and resulting nail loss.
Brooksy
reply to 'Black toenails' posted Nov-2012
shipjack wrote:Yeah..I have the same problem. Its not a mystery in my case though because I have one of those 'orrible fungal nail infection things. It means that one big toenail is slightly thicker than the other one and there just must be a tiny bit more pressure on the nail because of it being thicker. It does n't really hurt when I'm skiing to be honest..just slightly sore in the evening. Then sure enough a couple of weeks after I come back I loose the nail and by the time it grows back its time to go skiing again! You'd think I'd be able to solve it but I've tried various chemists potions and they do n't work.
Anyway..I'd suggest your fella has damaged his nail bed (possibly from one instance of a badly fitting ski boot?..or he's got a nail infection) and it just keeps getting re-triggered.
Sorry to be no help..probably needs some sort of doctor type to look at it.
Shipjack
Shipjack have you had a diabetes test as this also causes your toe nail or nails to be affected as in fungal infection & you don't have to be obese to get type 2.
Topic last updated on 04-October-2013 at 20:19