Tom Gellie asks a boot fitter how to fix ski boot pressure for skiers with large calves. The solution: trim and lower the shell, heat and stretch the liner with a flower pot device, then add wedges to pull it outward. After the work, the pressure is gone.
So for people with bigger calves, pressure at the back of the boot around this area, yep, what is something that you can do as a boot fitter here?
We've cut the shell down a little bit and lowered the shell, so that's going to allow us now to stretch the liner out over the top. We're going to put some heat through the top of the boot. I'm going to do what we call flower pot, where we actually put a flower pot down inside the boot. Stretch the top out. We then add wedges to pull it out so it'll accommodate the larger calves.
Excellent. Now we've done our adjustment. Oh yeah, that's great. Oh, that's awesome. Feels really comfy.
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