 Poster: A snowHead
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just bought my first ski boots (Nordica Olympia SM8) as i have seriously strange feet (high instep, high arch and supronating narrow feet) and they felt fantastic in the shop but i tried them on last night and they made my feet numb after 10 minutes to the point where i had to rip them off shrieking!!
am i doing something wrong or do all boots do this?
i'm going away to france in feb and need them to be comfy. also go skiing nearly every week at the chill factore and don't want to have to be asking for rentals so any tips on wearing them in, techniques for doing it and for how long?
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hereinmyroom, Welcome to snowHeads 
Make sure you put them on correctly. Slip your foot in, couple of flexes, do the 3rd clip from the bottom up first, then top one, couple more flexes. This ensures the heel is pulled back into the heelcup of the boot, then fasten front clips and power strap, adjust top clips and power strap as necessary.
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just bought my first ski boots (Nordica Olympia SM8) as i have seriously strange feet (high instep, high arch and supronating narrow feet) and they felt fantastic in the shop but i tried them on last night and they made my feet numb after 10 minutes to the point where i had to rip them off shrieking!!
am i doing something wrong or do all boots do this?
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I bought some boot before Christmas, put 'em on and went out and did a 1600 m ski tour the next day and they were completely comfortable, so no boots don't need to be painful.
As you seem to have strange feet did you get a footbed made, sounds like you are over tightning the boots and crushing your feet.
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hereinmyroom, welcome to snowheads.
Wear them a little & often, gradually building up the length of time. Buckle then up correctly, ie cuff buckles then flex then fix the power strap. Leave the two clog buckles undone.
Stand in a skiing posture with shins into the cuffs to pull you're heel to the rear. Try one legged ankle flexing or, which is better, drop your skis down in front of the telly & click in so you've got some leverage to push against.
I lasted 10 mintues in mine first time out but built that up to 3 hours over a couple of weeks as the liner packed out. I'd had about 15 hours in them before I hit the slope. You're Chill Factor sessions will really help but I'd get a few hours in them before the first one.
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got them on now its been 15 mins and all is feeling good...
flexed well when i put them on and got the two clips on my feet undone.
as i cant sit down my boyfriend has decided its the perfect time for me to do the ironing!!
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Yup - standing straight up is generally uncomfortable in ski boots. A 'ski stance' pulls the heels and therefore the whole foot back, thus taking a lot of pressure off. And generally the first 2-4 days of skiing will bed the liner in somewhat. Take some compeed blister plasters out with you just in case and have a few regular breaks to undo the boots on your first few days of skiing. Regarding your feet going numb in the house... remember that when skiing you are exercising... blood is pumping... the foot is flexing... it all helps.
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eek half an hour and i've lost 3 toes on each foot!!
answering the above post yup i do have footbeds in them tried everything to get them fitting as good as possible. hopefully bootfitter was half decent because i know nothing about fitting them 
thanks for the help everyone will try and persevere.
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I've got the same problem!!
Now months and 2 ski trips since I bought mine and they're still so tight I can't wear sock with them! Took them back to Ellis Brigham who checked the fit and said they were fine...
HELP! 
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I bought new boots a week or so before Xmas (Atomic Hawk 80)...
I went to the shop with a whole afternoon to spare, then sat like a plumb for a good while when I found some that I thought would be gooduns...
That along with my shop man being fantastic and eliminating so many due to my foot shape and skiing demands.
Don't forget that when you get to the snow the temperature drops and ski boots get smaller! I left mine in the car overnight (duh!) got one under the car heater as I drove to the lift... that one just about got on... the other one was 'too small' I could not get my foot in at all... The boots can change that much! If you are in a warm atmosphere when trying them on bear in mind the shrinkage.
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hereinmyroom, Wot Spyderman and spyderjon said. when I first got mone I went to Milton Keynes and after 2 runs was begging a man at the bottom to loosen the boots for me - I couldn't unfasten them. I follwed the instructions and since then I don't even loosen them when I stop for lunch. (although I do remember an early incidnent when I took boots off because it was too hot and II had to pull them back on for me as my feet had swollen in the heat)
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marmalade, I hope that you are wearing thin ski socks (race type etc) when you try them. To be honest a fair degree of tightness seems to be par for the course in order to be able to control your skis. Just be glad you aren't wearing climbing shoes 
But they shouldn't actually hurt.
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Tried wearing v. thin ski socks and even pop socks
They do hurt!
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marmalade, Maybe try a thinner footbed... though methinks a proper bootfitter should be the one to advise on this. You may have one specific area of your foot that is causing the problem.
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