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my wife has very sensitive feet to the point where she changed around with liners footbeds and came up with a compromise to allow her to ski - though myself I'm not sure she has been that well advised / fitted but anything that stops here being in tears up the mountain is fine by me! She has had problems with a vein on top of her foot which if it is compressed she loses all feeling. Up shot is she comes home after every trip with black big toe nails and normally loses them . What is the cause of this phenomenen? I would like het to go to see a specialist boot fitter but she has spent a lot of time getting to a point to where she can ski at all and is reticent about losing more slope time - can anyone help , make any suggestions ? Thanks Mark
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Mark - I cannot bear ANY pressure at all on buckles 1 & 2 (counting from toes up). I crank 3 up as tight as it will go, then 4. 1 and 2 are literally clipped "on" but exert no pressure. If 3 is tight enough her foot shouldn't move in the boot anyway.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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2 and 3 are the problems and are too loose
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I have had the dreaded stubbed big toes many a time. I can normally think back to the actual moment when my foot slid too far forward and the toe hit the end of the boot, when skiing hard or landing form a jump. A few months later I lose the nail.
I'm now on my second pair of boots, and in these I have the custom footbeds, and trying to make sure I get the boot tight enough to avoid movement. Agree with Alexandra about getting 3 as tight as possible then slackening off the others if need be to get comfortable.
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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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if she slackens off the 2nd clip to reduce pressure she probably then allows the foot to slide forward...sounds lie the boot has a pressure point on top of the instep, it may only need a very slight adjustment to make it better, as others have said top two clips are the important ones for holding the foot back and clip the boot pretty much from the top down...top two clips and power strap, then flex forward a few times to get the heel back, then loosely clip the front two clips
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Thanks for the feedback - so whats the best thing to do ? Already knowing the answer
She is a bit paranoid about boot problems as she was ready to give up at one stage!
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My wife had the black toenail problem in her Lange Venus boots.
Toe box was stretched upwards (it had quite a steep slope that seemed to press on the top of the tip of her toe) a couple of times to try and make more room but ultimately we ended up buying her a different boot.
2 new sets of boots in 2 seasons made me wince a bit! But ultimately it was the difference between her enjoying skiing and wanting to ski more or giving up the sport so well worth it.
Sounds like trip to the boot fitter required before disposing of your existing boots though!
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| marksovereign wrote: |
| my wife has very sensitive feet to the point where she changed around with liners footbeds and came up with a compromise to allow her to ski - though myself I'm not sure she has been that well advised / fitted but anything that stops her being in tears up the mountain is fine by me! She has had problems with a vein on top of her foot which if it is compressed she loses all feeling. Up shot is she comes home after every trip with black big toe nails and normally loses them . What is the cause of this phenomenen? I would like het to go to see a specialist boot fitter but she has spent a lot of time getting to a point to where she can ski at all and is reticent about losing more slope time - can anyone help , make any suggestions ? Thanks Mark |
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| CEM wrote: |
| top two clips and power strap, |
If she plantar flexes here, the very top clip is more effective.
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then flex forward a few times to get the heel back, then loosely clip the front two clips |
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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I had this in Tignes 2 yrs ago - I wasn't sure why - my toenails went black and blue and when we got home I lost both toenails. The only thing I could think was that I had done a lot of walking in my boots because of the position of our chalet.
Thought I'd get the same again last year, but at Samoens we left our boots at 1600 and went up in normal shoes, so no walking in them apart from on the first day. My toes were fine and I was congratulating myself on how it was obviously only that one year - and then I stubbed my toe on the very last day walking back as we decided to carry our shoes rather than our boots back down the hill.... it hurt like &*&$ and the next day started to go black, and I lost the nail again - but only on the toe I stubbed.
One of my adjusters doesn't work properly so I am not as tight in the boot as I would like - but it took me so long to get boots that didn't hurt I am really really loathe to get new ones or to hire any, but I have to admit mine are definitely past their best so that is probably why my feet now stub more easily.
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