Micamack

it works a lot better. shin bang reduced A LOT. and the ankle pain subsided about 75%. slight temporary fix, new boots after this season.

this is the answer i've kinda wanted from the start...way back in my head. but what i was hoping for on all the other posts was quick fixes.. I am starting up a tech school and dont have much money. so an update.... got my boots back from ski chalet in chantilly (ted worked on them). The shinbang instantly felt gone after he loosened the liner up and re-adjusted my straps..but that is more or less... something I just have to find out on the slopes. My ankle issue became more of a problem than I thought.. Before taking them in I could not put my boot on buckled or not buckled without it piercing through my ankle.. giving me an excruciating pain. I THINK we fixed that buy raising my heel (we think my ankle was rubbing something on the shell where it was originally resting). So I got new foot inserts and custom inserts added to the bottom of the liner. I think that issue is gone as well. However we will see tomorrow/ sunday when im on my trip

any specific liner you recommend in general?

yeah like i said..wished i had done my research

too bad the 450$ isn't granting me a college education :-(. That's a little bit more pricey of an education haha. So in ur opinion I find a lower shell that properly fits and then get my cuff customized on my next pair of boots..??

simply put... when boot straps don't fit properly.. they don't give the required resistance to prevent things like shin bang?? my 2 bottom buckles fit just fine, 2 upper its a struggle to get them buckled.

Very very informative, thank you. appreciate it. At this point in time. I am basically keeping this forum as a reference and trying out a bunch of stuff. One question, never heard about stack buckling. whats that? it was something not really advertised at the time of the purchase of the boot. And to be honest I didn't do my research on the boot before I bought it. I normally do my research on everything. That's whats making this whole situation feel miserable for me. 450$ on a pair of boots that are garbage after one year. And the one year I did use them they hurt me 80% of the time.

hahahaha aight. so we got 2 different brians and both are good.

very helpful, thankyou

yeah they never really impressed me but its the best place ive found so far. ive gone through a few places all much ****tier than ski chalet.. still havent found "that place" yet. okay ill let him know hahaha p.s. did u have similar problems as me before going to brian?

thankyou tons for the recommendation. I figure whatever Ski Chalet is doing to my boots at the moment i will let them finish and try them out this weekend. but if they do not improve. Definitely going to give this a try. Do i mention how you referred me or does not really matter?

i wanted dallbello boots to begin with but the boot i wanted literally does not come in my size :-(

sorry my fault didn't mean to send an angry message your way . just my philosophy on it was that... if i am going to freestyle i need a freestyle boot, and they are rated one of the top freestyle boots. but i guess sizing / fitting has more to do with it, especially with an ab-normal foot.

i just dont see how they are newbie boots. they are rated like #2 ski boot for freestyle skiing. Although the problem may definitiely be the fact about it not fitting my foot right. the place i got them from does mods to them for free. i took in em today to see what they could do for them.

so i just re-read everything i typed and theres way to many grammatical errors, sorry about making you read a crappy written post. thanks in advance for any help / advice though. -mica p.s. one more thing the 2 finger rule im not sure if i know clearly how i am supposed to do it but in one of the first pictures shows a aerial picture down into my boot behind my heel. my front big toe is perfectly touching the front of my boot and i can EXACTLY fit 2 of my fingers from heel to heel of boot. duno if i did it correctly or whatnot. but u asked me to do something to that effect.