 Poster: A snowHead
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I have this theory
New boots every season (or as soon as they feel soft), and they should really fit well.
New board when you get bored of theold one, and what board it is doesn't matter too much as long as its not to soft for what you're doing.
New bindings when the old ones snap, and the bindings should always be bought top noch, with a really good hold.
Can cou please comment on this.
The thing is, the boots I bougt last season are dangerously too big at the heel this season, and I don'd know what to do. Bought a new board with rossignol RS-bindings that I realised, when the buying-frenzy passed, are way too big. Probably L, and I'm a size 37 in boots.
Right now I can move my heel around quite a bit, and probably lift it 1.5 cm. Can't buy new ones right now, because I'm in Argentina and it's just too expensive. But I'll try to get some smaller bindings. But what should I do about my boots? Any tips?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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What do you have available?
-change lacing from X to Z pattern?
-cut up some mouse pad or fold up some trail map, put on top of foot inside sock?
-find a shop with generic heel wedges/cups for walking use?
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| and I'm a size 37 in boots. |
Well, maybe smaller.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I'll try the mouse pad an the heel wedges if I can find anything of the sort in Bariloche (the ski resort where I'm at in Argentina). It might work. I tried with the inner soles of my trekking shoes, and the hold was better but the boots got smaller at the same time so my toes went numb. And that was just walking around indoors.
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Well, maybe smaller.
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I think I would auto-amputate my toes if I used smaller boots. 
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How'd it turn out?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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It worked out to be very hard to find what I needed to get my shoe to fit (this is Argentina after all), and my physio forbid my to snowboard more for 2-3 month's (I hurt my foot falling, the danger of boots too big...), so I've given it up and will sell the god-damned boot when I get back to Sweden.
But I did try putting the inner soles of my trekking-boots onside my snowboard-boots, and not concidering my toes being too crammed, it worked very well to lift the heel. The boot got a very good grip of my heel. So I think heel wedges are a great idea.
Thaks for the advice!!!
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