New member - ski boot fitting advice needed

cem wrote:CEM also used to be the guy at Lockwoods, i left 4 years ago [come the end of this season]

sasha320 wrote:Hello all, I am due to go skiing in Courchevel for the first week in April and fully expect to have severe foot pain - this post is seeking advice on where and how I can minimise the foot pain before I sadly and very regretfully have to consider giving up the sport... :0(

I am an intermediate / advanced skier, physically fit but overweight (weekend rugby player).

A number of seasons ago, Lockwoods in Leamington Spa diagnosed my foot pain as having a "forefoot varus" in both feet and advised an anatomic insole, a pair of custom molded Salomon boots (Crossmax 10) and Zipfit inners.

For a variety of reasons, I got the insole created by a third party unrelated to Lockwoods (by an NHS foot surgeon) and although it was clearly a good insole, I'm not sure it was very compatible with the boot. When I went skiiing, I suffered enourmous pain again.

So I am looking at going back to Lockwoods or Solutions 4 feet and getting another fitting done. I am prepared to start from scratch or reuse bits of my existing kit, e.g., new insole and inners with the old shell.

I supect that Lockwoods and S4F are equally competant, but does anybody have any recommendations on what I should do, where I should go and / or alternatives?

Many thanks Sasha

Hi Sasha

I have the saem foot problems and they are finally gone after 20 years!!! thanks to Rob Graham at Daleboot in Kitzbuhel. They also have other outlets around Europe too. You can see my writeup in the Ski boot threads