Boot/Ankle Question

[Kano]

I should be asleep -- when the sun comes up, it will be a ski day! I had one question, though, that I haven't gotten around to asking yet tonight...

I have happy feet in my new boots this winter, and that's a good thing. They stay where they belong -- heels don't lift, shift or drift. Toes aren't pinched, arch insn't scrinched. The question I have about how they're fitting is related to my ankles. There's "wobble" room, and so once in a while, my ankles do just that -- they wobble, just a wee bit. I can't say that they feel loose -- they're snug, but it seems like however much I snug up that ankle buckle, I still have an occasional wobble. Should I be going to see my boot guy about this, or is it okay?

Kano

 

[MaineSkiLady]

Shouldn't be any lateral wobble in the ankles, and things should be snug enough that if you flex your ankle forward, so flex the boots, as dictated by the strength of your flex command. Try getting some shim work at the ankles with shim pads.

 

[Robyn]

Yeah, get that looked at and fixed. I nearly did real damage to my ankle and suffered pain for weeks (and still do occasionally) after spending a powder day in boots where my ankles were moving all over the place. Not good.

 

[MaineSkiLady]

Robyn, was this with the Attiva Flames? I am discovering, curiously enough, that the heel pocket/ankle snugness of this model is lesser than my previous boot, a Tecnica Rival 9L. I replaced those due to liner pack-out, more so in one boot than the other, but I'm now considering doing a comparison test, throwing a forefoot shim into the loose one (different size feet by 1/4-1/2 size) and doing a comparison on the fit in other regards. I loved the heel pocket on the Rival, not so much on the Attiva. ???? Seems odd, same general boot, several years later.