FWIW I don't remember that the boot board put your foot in any particular kind of flexed position. It was more like a bongo board that only operated in the medial-lateral plane.
That's kinda why I'm interested in the liner. One super obvious place to put such a teeter would be as (graduated-height?) reinforcement rib(s) on the underside of the liner - that way the actual footbed stays locked into the liner without sliding or creating blisters.
EDIT: OF course I realise that this was all before boots with properly adjustable cuff angles. Maybe the ankle wobble was calculated as slight compensation for that lack?
One thing the combination of ankle wobble and non-adjustable cuffs creates is rub and chafe higher up, near the top buckle. As most marathon inline skate wearers found out all over again in the '00s.
Dunno. I was like 20. I ended up deciding that I didn't like the boots, but there could have been lots of reasons for that. I was not well educated about boot fit. Probably very few people were.
LOL, you were way ahead of me then. I was still in double lace-up vinyl Alpinas (and shovel-mounted-throw-lever cable heels).
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