My wife was having problem of slop in her alpine boots and the ski tech fitted one of those to solve the problem. I generally don't like going to "pros" to fix my stuff, but yeah, maybe I should swallow my pride more often. Ha! Oddly... My older TX Pro boots had that incorporated into their "wrap" ...

I too find that the freeride has so much control that I rarely feel the need for a locked heel. The setup is just awesome for parallell turns, and I do p-turns all the time with all the confidence in the world. However, if you should feel the need to lock down the heel, I wonder if a dynafit or onyx...