Sizing down your boots

Nope, sounds like you had cheap-ish liners. The material near the ankle might stretch or get loose, but I’ve never worn holes anywhere in my liner, and I sized down 1-1.5 sizes from my shoe size. If anything, the shells of my boots seem to take most of the abuse from bindings that don’t fit right and eat into the shell.

I am going to break the trend on this one.
I go up a size in boots. Mostly I will wear 7’s in skate shoes sometimes an 8. My feet are really wide and I have a big in step, so pretty much no boots have fitted in a 7 for width or instep. Hence the need to go up a size and even then I will sometimes need to blow the side of the boots out.
Riding in 32 boots at the moment, but going to widen out my search when I get to the UK.

Yeah but you’re just weird, CJ. You and your unusually wide feet! 

I generally have size 11 shoes, and my latest boots were 10.5. Nice and tight for awhile but after 80+ days I was getting a bit of movement, but not too much to really get too worries about. The J-bars in the Burton Ions are awesome. Main prob is that the back boot got heaps looser than the front boot. The outer boot is braking a bit around the toe which sucks.

I’ve got size US 12 feet. I normally go half a size down and then heat mould my liners, this was a complete snug and comfortable fit. But this year i’ve got a size 12 boot, the only difference is is when i go on my toe edge it is not as responsive as my previous boots.

worldtripper - 06 July 2011 09:24 PM

Nope, sounds like you had cheap-ish liners. The material near the ankle might stretch or get loose, but I’ve never worn holes anywhere in my liner, and I sized down 1-1.5 sizes from my shoe size. If anything, the shells of my boots seem to take most of the abuse from bindings that don’t fit right and eat into the shell.

Well that’s good news, maybe my new boots will last longer.

A size up CJ?? Strange, but no one know your feet like u do. Have u tried Nike Boots? I’ve never had them but a few of my friends have had boot shape problems until they got Nikes. Might be worth a try if u haven’t already.

To be honest I am not going to do NIke snowboard boots. I generally don’t like nike for a lot of things, very personal choice there.

I wouldn’t mind looking at northwave, celcius or the new balance 686 boots. I have a big instep and really wide feet. So if I wear the same size boots as shoes I literally can’t feel my feet within a few minutes.