My shins hurt! new boots?

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genuinelarry

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I've got salomon falcon cs pro's, i'm doing a season, mostly park and pow skiing and my shins are starting to hurt alot, kinda like they're bending across the top of my boot especially after landings and some bails, would more flexy boots would help stop this, it made me come in today it absolutely canes and i don't want to get shin splints! what boots would be better? i was looking at spk's maybe? cheers
 
If you take this guy's advice you'll be really sorry. The Falcon series has a lower fit volume, SPKs are ginormously wide, especially in the toebox. Do not get SPKs if you wear falcons right now.

I am guessing like many others have already that you are skiing a little backseat. Before I had good form I would get the worst shin back to where I couldn't ski at all after a few days becuase it would hurt so badly. Let your shins heal up a bit, then try to focus on really keeping forward pressure. Think about it this way: the further back you cock your arm to punch someone, the more it hurts. If you can only bring your fist back an inch from someones arm then hit them it will barely hurt. Bring it back 2 feet and then you are talking. Same idea with shin bang. If your shins are always pressed again the front/tongue then you can't do much damage. If you are bringing your shin away from the tongue and repeatedly smashing it into the boot over and over, then you will develop a bruise.

But, seeing a bootfitter would solve your guessing problems. I hope you get it worked out, shin bang is no fun at all.
 
Might want to try getting a boot with something to prevent shinbang (my lange boots have a gel pad on the inside of the tongue, works awesome), or maybe just get booster straps. Or go to a boot fitter if you can afford to pay like $600 for boots.
 
A bunch of questions need to be answered about your fit.... Correct shell size? Do you have a good pair of after-market footbeds? Were they heat molded? If you answered no to any of these, you need to address it. Simply getting an SPK won't solve your problems, especially if you have a Falcon foot, in fact it could make things worse.
 
if your calf doesn't take up enough volume in the cuff of the boot your going to get shin bang put your boots on and do them up stand up straight can you stick a couple fingers between your shin and the tounge.... flex forward now, can you fit your hand behind your calf? if so you should go get some tounge blockers, it just builds up the tounge to take up volume. it could be a cheap solution. go see a boot fitter should be more then 40 bucks for the blockers and install.

lots of other good advice in this thread..... excluding the get spk's
 
welllllllll my boots were properly fitted and i have a custom footbed, i think having small calfs may be the problem then, I'll go and get some tongue blockers today and see how that goes, thanks alot for all the advice, HAPPY NEW YEAR!
 
Sometimes there are extra hole to move the "hook" part of you buckles. You can move it a step away ,usually, to allow the boot to tighten more. You might want to look into that.
 
when skiing imagine that there is a package of ketchup between your shin and the front of the boot, you dont' want to crush the ketchup but you also don't want it to fall down. Just keep some foreword pressure when skiing and it will make a world of difference for your shin bang as well as skiing.
 
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