Shin pain when buttering ://

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Willy_The_Kid

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Hi guys,

I have been trying to imporove my butters and ollies, but i experience a lot of pain in my shins when doing so. The pain prevents me from improving as a couple of hard butters really hurt my legs. Is this a common problem, or is it just me? Might be my boots...
 
its important to not overstrain your legs when learning butters. If you spend the whole day doing nosepresses your shins are going to get aggravated—its even worse with tailpresses. Just take it easy for a few days, ice, and try again. Boot fit could also be a problem.
 
It could be caused by a number of reasons. Your boots might not fit, you don’t have them buckled tightly enough/you could have them buckled too tightly, you subconsciously ski backseat a lot, or you could just not have enough strength developed in your shins yet.
 
I've had the same problem before and part of the problem was I had my boot straps too tight and the buckles near my ankle too loose. Also if the skis you're using are stiff and don't have much rocker, than your gonna end up putting a lot more force/weight onto your shins in order to get them to butter. You should definitely see a boot fitter though cause a better fitting boot will improve your skiing overall.
 
dude i feel ya. simple answer is doing butters is bad for you haha.

Try not to keep doin em when you start getting sore, and stretch as much as you can and try to work your calves to make them stronger. My boots fit totally perfect and I still get bang from pressing around. One winter I had chronic shin bang all winter and it didn't go away till July haha.

shit sucks but that's the harsh truth of rollin around in the backseat!

Good luck!
 
I honestly feel like its just luck of the draw. Some people get lots of shin bang others don't. A properly fitted boot wont hurt but I've seen people with precisely fitted boots who still get shin pain from doing lots of butters and ollies. I've been buttering around in poorly fitted and oversized full tilts for years and have never had shin bang.
 
This might just be me but a tongued liner in a boot always causes problems. I recommend switching to a wrap liner if you haven't already.
 
14194534:Bended_Toenail said:
This might just be me but a tongued liner in a boot always causes problems. I recommend switching to a wrap liner if you haven't already.
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I already have wrap liners, thanks tho!
 
14194454:shinbangclan said:
its important to not overstrain your legs when learning butters. If you spend the whole day doing nosepresses your shins are going to get aggravated—its even worse with tailpresses. Just take it easy for a few days, ice, and try again. Boot fit could also be a problem.
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Thanks for the advice!
 
14194530:BLandz said:
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I need to order a pair of those thanks for the reminder. I have their liner sleeve and love it. I was definitely skeptical but god damn is it nice. Great company.
 
Its real though, when I have a butter day I use my atomic 130 race boots, ironicly way less shinbang than my other softer boots. Ref the other thread they say its because of fit on shin etc, but I triple checked other boots and they seem to fit good, so ... go figure.
 
14194516:dylansiggers said:
dude i feel ya. simple answer is doing butters is bad for you haha.

Try not to keep doin em when you start getting sore, and stretch as much as you can and try to work your calves to make them stronger. My boots fit totally perfect and I still get bang from pressing around. One winter I had chronic shin bang all winter and it didn't go away till July haha.

shit sucks but that's the harsh truth of rollin around in the backseat!

Good luck!
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I've learned this the hard way too. I don't understand how people can do it.
 
14194579:BigPurpleSkiSuit said:
I've learned this the hard way too. I don't understand how people can do it.
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This totally reveals my gaperness, but I also don't get how people used to ski deep powder with skinny non-rockered skis. I've tried it, and while I can float fine, my shins are completely cooked within an hour having to sit back so much.
 
I ski mainly all mountain but make a weak attempt at skiing park every so often, over the last couple years I've been getting shin bang less by skiing more forward on my skis almost all the time. Might just be me ignoring it paired with me not buttering all the time but made a bit of a difference for me. I will also say boots that fit really good helped as well since my foot was locked in.
 
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