I get shin bang SO CRUCIALLY. I'm actually a skier but saw some helpful advice so far on this site, so thought I would give it a try.
I ski every weekend Friday night / Saturday all day / Sunday morning. EVERY weekend. USUALLY by lunch time Saturday my shin is aching in pain and makes me not want to ski the rest of the weekend. But i suffer through it... As the weeks pass by in the winter.... the shin bang pain builds up. usually near the end of the season I have to call it quits early.
I have very thick muscular calves (bigger set rider). and below my calves isnt anything big, just avg / normal size. I wear a big size boot (forget boot size but size 14 shoe)
I currently own Super Charger boots. I can feel where my pain comes from. The tongue presses against the middle of my shin roughly where the bottom half of my calf starts. I feel like if i were to cut the tongue into two parts right at the bend above your ankle (where the tongue levels out to go above your toes and right where it bends up to go in front of my shin. I feel like if i divided it into 2 parts at that point this would go away but that's a big risk to take (financially).
Any advice is helpful...
Brief description else - wise. My boots fit really well in all other appropriate places EXCEPT for the fact I feel like the tongue of my boot is going to snap my shin in half. Wearing my boots tighter or looser... still hurts the same. Have no special risers or anything in the boot except I got it molded to my foot when I bought it. Have had no boot shell work done or anything. (side not I have an extraordinary sized width foot -- 4 E -- but I don't expect that to be causing shin-bang).
Sorry for the wall of text but I will seriously consider pay-pal ' ing whoever can completely solve my problem. I enjoy my skiing way to much to give it up for something like this.
** This is NOT the first boot that has done this massive shin-bang to me**
(seriously think its due to my massive calves... very massive. EX-215lb wrestler. My legs carry a lot of weight around all day long)
-Mica, thank you in advance.
