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I had this problem and solved it. It was so painful I couldn't ski for more than an hour.
Pain in the arch is usually due to the fact that you are applying too much pressure on the inner ball your foot, in other words, pushing the front tips of your feet downwards. To be on the front of your skis you should ideally be resting on the front tongue of your boots, feeling the pressure between your boots and your shins. This will take some pain away but in order to be totally comfortable you should get some customized insoles and you may need to even do some modifications yourself. Many ski rental shops will be able to customize your insoles. If your problem is what I described above, you should get insoles with quite a lot of pressure on your arch. As I said, the pain comes from too much pressure on the front of the foot which is pulling on the ligaments in the arch. If you increase the pressure in the middle of the foot you should be fine. If this helps but you still feel a slight amount of pain, take your insoles out and scrape away some plastic on the bottom of the insoles under the inner ball of the foot to increase even more the pressure in the middle. This is what I did 8 years ago and haven't had a problem since. Hope this helps, Peter www.how-to-ski.org |
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