Boot Buttering Problem, Please Help

Imagination

Imagination

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Alright right guys, I'm asking for help because every day I am skiing, I always do butters and jibs, presses, and taps and a bunch of other all-mountain jibbing stuff, which I find really fun and don't have a problem doing. However, every time I do this my ankles end up hurting and I get shin bang and ultimately I don't have as much fun and I can't butter. So I was wondering if it's my boots or just the way I am buttering. You see;

I am 5'2" and about 100-105 lbs and do mainly All-mountain jibbing when I get these problems

I have the 07-08 Rossignol blast boots, which are pretty worn out, but are my size (26.5) However, I have relatively skinny, runners calves and medium-narrow feet.

Oh, and I am already aware of bootfitters, but I do not know of many in the Connecticut area and it will be abut 1-2 months efore I could even go, so I want some help from you guys.

Thanks alot, and +K for help as to the cause of my problem and how I could fix it, As I think it may be that my boots do not fit me and do not have a soft enough flex.
 
You may need to tighten your boot more (mainly the buckle(s) closest to your ankle), booster straps help as well. I find that a stiffer boot is easier to butter because then more energy is going into the ski, where as a softer boot your pushing the boot then the ski.
 
I know, but I have already tightened them up as much as they can tighten and my calves still don't fit, and I've tried two extra pairs of socks, etc., and every time I tighten them it just gets worse, and really any buckles near the ankle because it is a 4-buckle design. I have also tried different combinations of buckling.
 
Sounds like your boot might be too big or at least packed out like crazy. Do you have some sort of footbed in your liner? If you don't have a good pair of footbeds, your foot will twist inside the shell like crazy during a butter (heck of a lot of stress put on your flexible foot during that total process). So make sure you get a pair of them as they do so much to stabilize your foot/ankle/shin.

Next step would be to try to fill in as many voids as possible, like somehow fitting some soft foam on your liner around your ankle/calf area to take up any excess volume. You said you're not near a boot-fitter, but this will help in the meantime until someone can take a look at your set up (which we obviously cannot).
 
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