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Problem fitting ski boots

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Hi all Very Happy

This will be my third attempt at skiing (third holiday, anyway). and I have so far had a problem with every ski boot I've worn. I have lymphodoema in one leg, which essentially means i have a fat calf. The boots go on ok, but because the tongue is moulded, it digs in to my shin rather than wrapping round it and the bits that close the boot don't go anywhere near each other (I tried every boot in Decathlon on the other day and nothing came closer than an inch away).

Last season I was in boots two sizes too big and THEN i had an extension screwed on. It just about worked but was a) digging through the plastic on the boot so not a long-term solution and b) not ideal cos my feet were slipping out at the bottom.

I've seen the apex soft ski boots, which look amazing and like they'd work (because it's the extra depth of the tongue not fitting around my shin that's causing the problem) but to buy they're massively expensive and I can't see a resort ski hire having them for beginners.

Is there any way to either flatten out the tongue in a boot so it moulds around better or are there cheaper variations of the apex boot?


Any help gratefully appreciated!

Meep
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Why not try a three piece style boot? Some touring boots (Scarpa Maestrale range for one) haev a tongue that folds across from the side rather than the normal overlap. I think Full Tilts are the same?
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@meep, yes the tongue can be flattened out with heat so it digs in less. But it sounds as if you would be far better off in a wrap type liner such as an Intuition or Palau. Really worth getting the advice of a decent bootfitter.
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@meep,

I think your best option is to talk to one of the boot specialists. Hopefully CEM, will be along soon or if you are not too far from him call in.
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Hey meep, any decent bootfitter should be able to cope. I can recommend skee-tex if you are east london-ish?
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as others have said an intuition or palau wrap style liner is going to be the most appropriate solution for you, this is custom moudled to your foot / leg but as it is a spiral wrap there is no tongue as such, the wrap can be allowed to adjust to an extent as t=well so it can cope with the fluctuations in calf size, the other thing which may help (with the guidance of your doctor!) Is a compression sock
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I think that you should go to a specialist boot fitter you can get a special made liner with extra depth to accommodate a larger calf and also a low wide cuff. But you will have to accept that decathlon will not have these products. However if you make the correct purchase first time round you will only end up purchasing one pair of boots which in the long term will end up more cost effective.
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