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Boot Buttering Problem, Please Help

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Imagination
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Alright right guys, I'm asking for help because every day I am skiing, I always do butters and jibs, presses, and taps and a bunch of other all-mountain jibbing stuff, which I find really fun and don't have a problem doing. However, every time I do this my ankles end up hurting and I get shin bang and ultimately I don't have as much fun and I can't butter. So I was wondering if it's my boots or just the way I am buttering. You see;

I am 5'2" and about 100-105 lbs and do mainly All-mountain jibbing when I get these problems

I have the 07-08 Rossignol blast boots, which are pretty worn out, but are my size (26.5) However, I have relatively skinny, runners calves and medium-narrow feet.

Oh, and I am already aware of bootfitters, but I do not know of many in the Connecticut area and it will be abut 1-2 months efore I could even go, so I want some help from you guys.

Thanks alot, and +K for help as to the cause of my problem and how I could fix it, As I think it may be that my boots do not fit me and do not have a soft enough flex.

Aug 9 2010 11:04AM
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BWalmer
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You may need to tighten your boot more (mainly the buckle(s) closest to your ankle), booster straps help as well. I find that a stiffer boot is easier to butter because then more energy is going into the ski, where as a softer boot your pushing the boot then the ski.
Aug 9 2010 11:23AM
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chardi
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same problem. ^thats good to know
Aug 9 2010 11:33AM
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Imagination
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I know, but I have already tightened them up as much as they can tighten and my calves still don't fit, and I've tried two extra pairs of socks, etc., and every time I tighten them it just gets worse, and really any buckles near the ankle because it is a 4-buckle design.  I have also tried different combinations of buckling.

Aug 9 2010 11:47AM
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onenerdykid
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Sounds like your boot might be too big or at least packed out like crazy. Do you have some sort of footbed in your liner? If you don't have a good pair of footbeds, your foot will twist inside the shell like crazy during a butter (heck of a lot of stress put on your flexible foot during that total process). So make sure you get a pair of them as they do so much to stabilize your foot/ankle/shin.

Next step would be to try to fill in as many voids as possible, like somehow fitting some soft foam on your liner around your ankle/calf area to take up any excess volume. You said you're not near a boot-fitter, but this will help in the meantime until someone can take a look at your set up (which we obviously cannot).
Aug 9 2010 12:13PM
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