I've mentioned it before so I'll keep it short but I had my right ankle fused (joint removed and tibia screwed to talus) in April and I'm prepping for next ski season. Now that it's healing, the good news is that getting in and out of a 2 piece isn't quite as difficult as I thought it would be and the pain is way down from before surgery so I should be able to turn the dial up this year. The bad news is that after 3 surgeries over the past few 3 years, so much new bone has deposited around the injured area (lower tibia) that my once skinny/low volume ankle is now really high volume on my right side so I need two totally different volumes for each foot. I've been using RS 130 wide boots that I absolutely love and may continue to wear on my left foot but putting it on my right, the cuff is bulging to where I can hardly even get it to close on the loosest setting.
My feet are the same all the way from toes to the instep (measured around the arch). Then from just above the arch my right ankle starts to expand to where measuring from back of heal, around the instep to the back of heal on the other side there is a difference of 1" (11" on left/12" on right) and around the malleolus' there is a 1.5" difference (10.5" left/12" right). 2" above malls .75" difference (9" left/9.75" right), 4" above malls .25" (9.25" left/9.5" right) and then 5" above malls my upper ankle and calves are equally skinny. Basically, my bad ankle looks just like a bad sprain where you have kind of a soft ball around the ankle joint only mine isn't just inflammation but calcification of the bone when it healed.
What 130 or stiffer boots have the most volume around the ankle but without having giant volume in the calves as mine are really skinny so my calves generally swim in high volume boots? Would a Lange SX 130 be a decent option and would the flex likely be similar to the RS 130 on my good foot?
Or, would it make sense to go up a size in the RS 130 because I almost did that 2 seasons ago when my bad ankle was bigger but not as big, but didn't because the 28.5 RS 130 had too much volume at the time compared to the less than 1cm performance fit in my 27.5? Other than remounting one of the bindings on each pair of skis, is there any downside to wearing 2 different size boots because that would probably give me the best flex compatibility vs wearing two different models or brands. Not a boot question but can all of the holes be redrilled .5cm apart from previous ones or is that not enough space if old holes are filled with epoxy or whatever?
I'm thinking of making a trip out to Colorado in the next few weeks to shop for boots but would like to get some ideas of what to look for. Thanks!
My feet are the same all the way from toes to the instep (measured around the arch). Then from just above the arch my right ankle starts to expand to where measuring from back of heal, around the instep to the back of heal on the other side there is a difference of 1" (11" on left/12" on right) and around the malleolus' there is a 1.5" difference (10.5" left/12" right). 2" above malls .75" difference (9" left/9.75" right), 4" above malls .25" (9.25" left/9.5" right) and then 5" above malls my upper ankle and calves are equally skinny. Basically, my bad ankle looks just like a bad sprain where you have kind of a soft ball around the ankle joint only mine isn't just inflammation but calcification of the bone when it healed.
What 130 or stiffer boots have the most volume around the ankle but without having giant volume in the calves as mine are really skinny so my calves generally swim in high volume boots? Would a Lange SX 130 be a decent option and would the flex likely be similar to the RS 130 on my good foot?
Or, would it make sense to go up a size in the RS 130 because I almost did that 2 seasons ago when my bad ankle was bigger but not as big, but didn't because the 28.5 RS 130 had too much volume at the time compared to the less than 1cm performance fit in my 27.5? Other than remounting one of the bindings on each pair of skis, is there any downside to wearing 2 different size boots because that would probably give me the best flex compatibility vs wearing two different models or brands. Not a boot question but can all of the holes be redrilled .5cm apart from previous ones or is that not enough space if old holes are filled with epoxy or whatever?
I'm thinking of making a trip out to Colorado in the next few weeks to shop for boots but would like to get some ideas of what to look for. Thanks!
