tight bindings

I bought my wife a new LF Diva with Fusion bindings for Christmas....the bindings fit length wise, but are extremely too tight across the top...she has a very high arch. Will the bindings stretch out(really, really tight), or should we start over with a pair of bindings that are comfortable from the start?

dont' know about those bindings, but here's what i would do. start by seeing if they're adjustable at all. look on both sides of the footbed for some screws and some excess material you can loosen up.

If not adjustable, then you can try to stretch them out a bit. you can put stuff in the binding to give them a stretch. bottles, cans, baseball bats have been used successfully. but don't limit yourself, be creative.

sometimes the binding just doesn't fit. flog it and start over. if this is what you want to do, don't mess with the above two options. may decrease your resale

They will stretch but it sounds like they don't match the shape of her foot. Trust me, you do NOT want your wife uncomfortable!! Said with a ridiculous amount of emphasis!! Hopefully you can try some options, might I recommend the CWB Sage.

If you're gonna get new ones, just send those back to LF and ask for a different size, they should do it.

Depends how tight, if they hurt as soon as she put's her foot in then she need's a different size. If they hurt after 5min. of riding then you can probably stretch them out. I bought a med. pair of Zeus in October and they still hurt my feet a little. The large were to big and my heel would slip. So I just put bottles in them to help stretch them. Or where them in a Hot tub.