Boot shin fit

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Originally posted by 13
Mulletizer, I have the same type of lower legs that you do. Skinny down low, but huge calves and significant muscle mass on the front of my shins.

I have XWave 9s (stock liners) with Boosters and custom footbeds and STILL had excruciating pain.

There were times when I felt my shins acting as levers pushing my ankles forward out of the heel cup and got shooting pains in my feet. I saw stars a few times from the excruciating pain. I learned to balance myself in the boots independent of cuff support as a result, so maybe it's not all bad.

If you haven't solved your problem next season, I'll let you know what I try and if it helps or not.

PS -- Eliminators suck; they put you in the backseat automatically.

from a volume perspective i disagree.. but then again, i ski very forward and aggressively, and like a lot of pressure on the front of my boots. i would say that in my old langes, they probably would have, but with a progressive flex boot like the flexon, i dont have any balance issues at all.

[Mulletizer]

Thanks a lot, everyone for the advice and especially thanks for the offers to help out with stuff. Right now I have 7 months to sort out some boots so there's no big rush. Everything here will be really useful when I get somewhere with a huge range of boots (most likely Footworks in Cham or Espace Montagne in Grenoble).

It sounds as if the Flexons could fit the bill. A pair just came up on ebay for £5 but typically are too big. Bugger, as they say. My only concern is whether my feet are too wide for them. Heck, we'll see about that in due course... For now all I wanted to say is

THANKS MAGGINIONS!