 Poster: A snowHead
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Hello,
I always seem to get problem with boots rubbing on the back of my calves - just where the calve thins down to the lower leg (I have huge calves and relatively very thin ankles and lower leg) - and on the last trip could not ski after day 3 due to really nasty friction burns on one of my legs (caused when it snowed a lot and the pistes became very bumpy - I did not seem to have any problems on smooth pistes the previous days). Usually it has never been worse than ever so slightly sore in the past so I did not pay too much attention on pas trips.
I had the boot as tight as it would go (which friends told me is a correct thing to do to restrict movement of the leg against the boot), and a doctor friend who looked at my leg seemed to think the problem is the size of my calves (very large) meaning they are pushed far too tight against a typical boot. I wonder if the size of the part of the boot around the ankle and higher scales with foot size, so that if I have huge calves but not particularly huge feet it won't fit because my foot to leg size is not a normal proportion?
Or a typical rental boot should be able to fit any leg shape if correctly used?
Thanks for any suggestions!
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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Sounds like your boots are way to big to retain your heel properly so they are rubbing, you may actually be better in a ladies boot as they have a lower cuff but some real boot people will be along shortly to help out.
Oh and welcome to  's
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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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not sure a ladies boot will solve the problem as the main difference is the colour and sometimes the cut of the top of the liner (but not lower down)
sounds like a bit of rental boot bucket syndrome
1 if you asked for your uk shoe size they were probably 1 or 2 sizes bigger than you actually needed
2 rental boots tend to be high volume with little sculpting around the ankle so will allow movement
3 a big calf just accentuates the problem
you should probably have much better luck with a fitted boot, something which matches your foot shape and then can be adjusted for the calf, depending on the calf size and the tightness the boot needs to be upright and can be flared back to accommodate the calf, sometimes a custom liner is needed to create enough space in this area
if you do decide to buy do it early in the season (sept/oct) when there is the best selection available and see a boot fitter rather than taking pot luck
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Also, make sure you have absolutely NOTHING inside your boots other than your feet and one pair of ski socks. Any trousers, snow cuffs and the like should be on the outside.
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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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Hi,
Ok thanks for all the advice, its very useful!
Mark
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Sure it doesn’t involve an assignation in the back of a mini with those aggressive carpets.
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I've got some odd irritated patches in the same place as you on my lower calf muscles after my last trip. They were really itchy for a few days after I got back, but I didn't notice it when I was skiing. I put it down to having hairy legs, wearing my boots very tight and friction causing pulling on the hairs. It happens on my shins too sometimes. Every year I tell myself I'm going to shave all the hair off my lower legs before going skiing, but I never do.
Years ago I suffered a serious case of shin/boot bang, with bleeding and infected shins. My feet, ankles and calf muscles did not fit the average rental boot well at all. When I got back into skiing, I went to a specialist bootfitting company in London and that solved the shin-bang problem. I have skinny ankles and after just a few weeks skiing in the boots, the original liner had compressed so much that I couldn't get the boots tight enough for my liking around the ankles, so I went back to the bootfitters and had a custom 'goo'-injected liner fitted. That perfect fit has made such a dramatic difference to my skiing and the amount of pleasure I get out of it.
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are you sure you're not just backseat too much, could possibly be the problem.
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