Ski boot advice

A snowHead

I'm wondering if anybody can help me with my ski boot situation. Just before Christmas I bought a pair of Tecnica Dragon Viva 100 Ultrafit boots. I describe myself as about a level 7.5 on Snow and Rock's scale and I like skiing fast and agreessively on groomed runs and trying to perfect my mogul technique. I'm definitely not an expert though and never will be. I bought these boots as boots to progress in and as the next step from my old Rossignol Bandit B1 boots. When I got to the slopes I found the boots really great to ski in, fast and precise and I felt like they lifted my skiing to the next level. The downside though was that they bruised the front of my ankles really badly just above where they join to my foot. No dicsomfort at all elsewhere though or shinbang etc. It felt like there was a hard angle inside the liner that was causing the pain. In the end the pain was so bad that I took the boots back.

I've been back to see the bootfitter today and he suggested that since I liked the boots so much apart from the pain one answer might be to stick to these shells but put in a zipfit liner. I could see the sense in his argument but am obviously worried in case it was something else about the boot that caused the pain and I end up back in the same situation. He asked me if I thought that the flex was too stiff and I said not because I skied so well in the boots but I don't really know what I would have felt had the flex been too stiff and whether this might have been what caused the problem. I know what skiing in a boot that's too soft feels like (I tried Atomic Hawx 80s and they were terrible) but can only say that skiing in these boots definitely improved my performance on the slopes. So can anybody help me by telling me whether they think that the stiff flex could have contributed to the problem or does the fact that I skied in them well mean this was the right level of boot for me but it was something about the liner that caused the problem?

Thanks for any thoughts on this.

A snowHead

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s scarah73.

Hopefully someone far better informed than me will turn up shortly.

It might help to say where you bought the boots...

Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?

Wow, 3 hours later and no cynical comments about using the search function...

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new boots (unless they are too big) often need some adjustment after your first outing
couple of hours in a fridge doesn't count as an outing

not sure where you got them fitted, but i'm sure they should be able to ease the shell out where it's tight

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