HELP, BIG FEET, DOES the board with 275mm does fine??

help help! first time buying my own snowboard, i`m on the basic, hoping to improve, have feet 47( europe number, should be arround 12, or 13....thinkg is 12!!) and after finding first board with waist 275mm, thinking to buy it!!! i`m sick of borrowing from others small boards, do you think this should be fine, or there is even wider boards??? doing freerideing at the moment!!! thanx a lot

The big problem I had with wide boards was that, in a hard toeside carve, there was way too much leverage pushing upwards on my feet. I even injured myself this way after skidding out and hitting some hard snow. The answer for me was hard boots and a narrow board.

against the outside of the turn would push me so hard on my toes that I couldn`t hold a decent edge. It would sometimes (usually when popping out of the carve for some reason) cause my feet to bend in more of a "toes-up" position than they seemed to be designed for, and hurt like hell. I`m sure it was either bad technique or else my feet are more sensitive to this, maybe they just don`t flex upward as well as most people`s. But it got me to question why I was standing sideways on a big wide board trying to carve 90% of the time. Everyone else was slip-sliding down the hill in skidding turns, so I changed to the equipment that suited my style better. and do other tricks requiring that stance. It was great for me, though. I don`t know what my problem was in the softies. It was probably bad technique, since it was in my newbie "reaching for the snow" period

torsional stiffness will allow big-footed riders to carve very well. You might look at the Donek Sasquatch or Wide (I love my Wide - www.donek.com ) - or if you need something you can buy from a store, the wider, stiffer Salomon models (they used to be called the W4 and W5 but they changed all the names, just to make it hard for me to recommend them to you!)
I tried the Palmer Powerlink risers. I couldn`t stand them... they ruined the feel of the board for me. Others swear by them... it`s obviously a personal opinion thing. In fact I`d be happy to sell mine (slightly used condition) for any reasonable offer.

so that it performs in a way that the designer hadn`t intended.
The big trick: Get a decent wide board in the first place.