Serious ankle and boot pain. Need opnions and help.

sorry i cant help you, but your gonna get a lot of "full tilts" responses

Yea i realize that, I'm mostly waiting for onenerdykid's response. But hey, if full tilts are the best for me then I will check them out.

I would try pushing ur shell out in the ankle, it can be tricky, because it could mess with the flex of the boot. An intuition liner is goona actually take up more room in the boot, making the fit slightly smaller. Grinding I don't think is a real option, because I don't think it will create enough room. Basically I would just work on ur boots till they either fit and work or u completely riun them, then u would probably have to go to a boot fitter, mostlikely getting something high volume, with a lot of room in the ankle area, then putting something like an intuition liner in those to snug up the fit a little bit. U shoul also look at getting full custom footbeds if u don't already have them as the will generally stabalize ur ankle a bit. Good luck man, hope u find a way to work it out!

Go to a bootfitter. We specialize in specifically this. It will not be inexpensive, that i can tell you.

I was operating on the assumption that u have some custom bootfitting experience or training, as u were talking about grinding on ur boots urself, if not go to the best known bootfitter in ur area and discuss ur options with him

Yea I could do it myself if If wanted to so I'm trying to avoid going to a shop cause I know its going to cost a ton. But I will probably end up going to a boot fitter in the end. and to your other post I do have custom footbeds, and they are very nice haha.

bump!

bootfitter. that's not simply an irregular foot, it's something that needs specialty work in order for them to be comfortable

Many skiers have ankle issues like yours (I've had to do this to LJ's boots for years) and there are definitely some tricks to help improve your situation, but as to how effective they will be is hard to say over the interweb. A new liner might help, but your ultimate limiting factor will be the shell so that's where you have to start. Grinding will not really help you out, you need to have some stretch work done. You'll need to find a boot-fitter who can alter the upper cuff as well as the inner cuff of the shell. He/she will need to remove a portion of the upper cuff at the ankle area (but not get too close to the cuff rivet) so he/she can effectively stretch the lower shell. It's not that tricky, but it's not exactly easy either... But don't worry, a good boot-fitter will be to improve your situation for sure (how much improvement is understandably hard for me to gauge).

If you end up needing new boots, I would not go down the FT or Dalbello road because they are very difficult to adjust in the ankle area given where the middle cable attaches to the shell. Stay with traditional overlap boots (either 2 or 4 buckle, doesn't matter) because it is way easier to work on the ankle areas of the shell.

Hope that helps point you in the right direction.

Many skiers have ankle issues like yours (I've had to do this to LJ's boots for years) and there are definitely some tricks to help improve your situation, but as to how effective they will be is hard to say over the interweb. A new liner might help, but your ultimate limiting factor will be the shell so that's where you have to start. Grinding will not really help you out, you need to have some stretch work done. You'll need to find a boot-fitter who can alter the upper cuff as well as the inner cuff of the shell. He/she will need to remove a portion of the upper cuff at the ankle area (but not get too close to the cuff rivet) so he/she can effectively stretch the lower shell. It's not that tricky, but it's not exactly easy either... But don't worry, a good boot-fitter will be to improve your situation for sure (how much improvement is understandably hard for me to gauge).

If you end up needing new boots, I would not go down the FT or Dalbello road because they are very difficult to adjust in the ankle area given where the middle cable attaches to the shell. Stay with traditional overlap boots (either 2 or 4 buckle, doesn't matter) because it is way easier to work on the ankle areas of the shell.

Hope that helps point you in the right direction.

In your situation an intuition liner won't help you at all. your issue lies with protrusions in your ankle so it's going to be a shell issue. Simply changing your liner won't do anything to relieve the pressure.

A bootfitter will be able to give you a real assessment of what really needs to be done but if you need to go to a new boot, I might recomend a race boot.

Now before the park rat world rips me a new one, race boots are very low-tech in that they don't use different layers of plastics and don't have seams all over the place that can cause problems for adjustments. Race boots are almost always thick single layer plastics so they can be ground and stretched all over the place to give the best fit.

Just my 2 cents

buy some shinnies they will help for 8 bucks if you dont want to spend tons of money.


http://www.shinnies.com/

go to a boot fitter and get whatever they fit you to.