J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by cem

if not too late rivington alpine is the place to go in the north west

never heard so much tosh in all my time on here....£300+ for fitting a 12 yo , not unless they are in a full on race boot....BUT sizing the boot correctly is a must, if the foot measures 22 then the biggest boot should be a 22/22.5 shell, any bigger and the foot may feel great for the first day or two but the liner will pack down and the boot will be too big...this is why any good fitter should do a shell check, irrespective if it is a £50 junior boot for a £500 world cup boot....now as for the foot measuring a 27.5 but being in a 28.5 boot

1 the head edge is one of the biggest to size boots on the market
2 i wear a size 11 street shoe and ski in a 28, 27/27.5 in some models
3 do a shell check, take the liner out and put your foot in the empty shell, toes tckling the front there should be 10-20 mm space behind your heel...25mm at absolute most...... in that 28.5 shell if there is less than 25mm then you need to buy a new ruler as it must be well out and your foot cannot measure 27.5
4 ignore the charts that try and convert uk to mondopoint sizes and vice versa they are so far out it is not true, boot manufacturers add on a little extra space to make the boot feel good out the box, great for standing in the shop, not so good when you start skiing as after a while the foot starts to slip and you have to over tighten the boot clips to stop movement..this normally stops bloodflow as well

i guess this is all irrelevant as the boots were sold out but it is not just a comfort thing, it is safety as well, too much space in a boot is a recipe for a broken leg if something goes wrong, but hey what do i know

often it is not only fit which is the problem, biomechnics play a big part in skiing and if you have limited ankle joint range of motion then when you are pushed forward into the position a ski boot holds you it may have pushed you to the limit of your flexibility, if this happens then your heel will lift slightly in the boot and all the load will be on the ball of the foot, this can send your toes cold and numb in minutes, the alternative is if the rental boot is very big you stand bolt upright and this pushes your foot into the enclosed toe box of the boot and has a similar effect, other areas you need to be watchful of are the top of the instep, if this is high and you compress it into a boot then you can cut the blood off pretty quickly

so yes boot fit is very important, but it may not be the only thing (i know people whos biomechanics are so bad they get numb feet in running shoes)

of course if it is just circulatory then heaters and wool based socks offer a great solution

Snapzzz wrote:Well i tried it.

Not impressed, tasted like chewy raw bacon.

slice it really thinly or you will chew on it for days...best served with a nice glass of red wine and a selection of cheeses: tomme du savoire, reblechon and comte

cactus in now called meribar, or you have Jacks bar also at he chaudanne, walk up the hill a few hundred yards and you have Bar-o-meter on the left, keep going another few hundred and you have the tavern 9on the road junction or look back and to the right and find scotts bar (which last year had the cheapest beer in town (better even than my discounted rate for working at the national alpine champs)

not a cheap place to drink, but if you search you can find a few "happy hours" and Jacks tend to do some silly games at times, last one i say you threw a dice to see if you paid for your round or not...i seem to remember winning :)

manufacturers often do this with some of their boot models to save costs, it costs around €120k for a set of moulds so one less mould is a big saving, it is only on certain boot models and what they normally do to compensate is but a double thickness piece in the front of the liner or a plastic plug in the front of the shell, on langes RX lv 80 or 100 (the slightly narrower version 97mm last (it doesn't feel that narrow)) the 22.5 is a true 22.5 shell with a sole length of 266mm, next year they are producing a 21.5 shell lange are not the worst for this, many companies do not even produce a 22.5 boot and yet insist on making there 23.5 fit like a size 5-6 UK anyone would think they hadn't realised that over 47% of skiers are women and many of them have small feet

the only way you will get them to fit well is to grow your feet by at least another size as they come up big to start with, best return them if you can and start over

salomon idol comes in a 22.5 shell 100mm last,atomic make the hawx 90 in a 22.5, and pretty much all of them make their performance (97-98mm last) in a 22.5 but being honest you will probably fit in the 97mm last from lange with little problem, it fits a bit like a 100mm from most other people...... also need to remember that it is proportional, as the shell size goes down the width does too, the 100mm is for the size 26.5 shell, so a 100mm foot in size 22 is really really wide and a 100mm foot in size 29 is skinny as hell

andyhull wrote:I want to watch a programme about skiing, not one about ski racing. That's what Ski Sunday had started to get right.

problem there was the budget was split between BBC entertainment and BBC sport (sport paid for racing, entertainment paid for the other stuff)

BBC entertainment pulled the budget so the show became back to being racing biased

plenty experience with the brand conformable but not volcano, conformable make an off the shelf product called volcano not sure if it is that you are talking about.... thing about CUSTOM footbeds is they are produced for your feet by a technician, therefore cannot be bought mail order, if someone tells you you can then personally i believe that they are not giving you the best service for your feet.... different brands of footbed may work differently for each person, i work predominantly with superfeet custom and instaprnt custom products, i sell some of their off the shelf devices but not very many because we work with the individual foot and select the most appropriate thing for that foot. there are really no bad bands of custom footbeds out there, only badly made product or product not suitable for the individual, seek out a good fitter and take their advice on which custom product is best for YOU, if they say that you don't need footbeds or an off the shelf one is all you need, think very carefully if your foot came out a box or if you should be seeking a second opinion