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SnowHot, stop staring at my legs. You're a married woman. I'm out of your league, anyway!
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SMALLZOOKEEPER, looks like you balanced those boots really well... NehNeh Laughing Laughing Laughing snowHead Twisted Evil

I'm excited to see the change when you get them on snow, Wear The Fox Hat. I expect that you'll discover a number of new sensations and realizations about what your skis are doing. Do let us know!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
ssh, hopefully I'll get a video in Stowe, and the instructors and experts will be able to analyse it again! Very Happy
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Wear The Fox Hat, I care far less about the analysis than your own sensations. Wink
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Hot News: New boots may cure impotence.
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Floppy the Snotman,
Is that how you got your new monicker wink
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Steady Evil or Very Mad

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Wear The Fox Hat wrote:
SnowHot, stop staring at my legs. You're a married woman. I'm out of your league, anyway!

Am I obligated to take nekid pics of my legs when I get my boots fitted?

I'm afraid of showing up your hot legs, are you?
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SnowHot, I don't think you need to worry about that!
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Wear The Fox Hat, explain please? Mad
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SnowHot, well, I don't think it's fair to compare your legs with mine...
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Wear The Fox Hat, That's not a better explaination Evil or Very Mad

I think you're just a big chicken that my legs are hotter than yours. NehNeh
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SnowHot, you're way hotter than the Fox. You know it. He knows it. We all know it.

Now... show the legs! Twisted Evil
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You know it makes sense.
For what it's worth, my legs were ridiculed as well when I posted them rolling eyes
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SnowHot wrote:
I think you're just a big chicken that my legs are hotter than yours. NehNeh


Um, I've SHOWN my legs!
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it's all coming back.... noooooo.....

one of SZK's henchmen sorted me out last year. I came down two shell sizes and it took three seperate stretches to get them from painfully tight to damn snug. They are amazingly quick edge-to-edge though....
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will WAFH need to come back to have the boots checked as they settle with use or will just adjusting the clips take out any change.
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Really interesting thread, thanks Wear The Fox Hat Smile

Is there a list of UK-based superhero boot fitters that can guess your shoesize from ten foot off? (hopefully there's a northern one!)

Failing that, is Chamonix far from Morzine? Very Happy
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ntfarmer, plenty of room to adjust the clips, but I guess if I had to go to Chamonix for a weekend later this season, or early next, that would be a hardship I'd have to put up with! Laughing

toiletduckuk, Chamonix is not too far from Morzine. As for judging shoe size, it helps if the zookeeper/bootfitter has had a beer or three first...
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Have the bootfitters EVER put someone in a size bigger?
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Floppy the Snotman, Snow and rock normally go for 2 sizes bigger... Wink
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morzine is just over an hour from cham, but you'll need to prebook an appointment....
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are we ever going to see SZK's head???????
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eng_ch, there is a picture in the snowmediazone of him with his head between Frosty The Snowman's legs Shocked
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eng_ch, some of us saw the original pic's of the cute one and yes he has a head but held on by a girly crocheted Alice band, some say bandana but others speak the truth Laughing Laughing
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Wear The Fox Hat, Were you at Footworks the same Saturday as come nuts from Morzine and Abondance (thats me and our friends) in tow with our kids!!
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snowandtrek, he's in Stowe-out-the-Wold USofA at the mo.

PM him and he'll reply on his return. snowHead
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snowandtrek, I belive he was.
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snowandtrek wrote:
Wear The Fox Hat, Were you at Footworks the same Saturday as come nuts from Morzine and Abondance (thats me and our friends) in tow with our kids!!


kids and a dog?

were you the one who couldn't flex her ankles much?


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OK, here is the update...
On Friday I had my first day of the season on snow. And the first day in my new boots. I spent most of the day skiing with three amazing characters: Erik Timmerman, Robin Barnes and Stu Campbell. They are all top instructors, but we were just free-skiing together. Robin stopped at one point and asked me if I had my alignment checked recently, because she thought it might have been a bit out.
I said it was my first day on snow and my first day in the new boots, so I suspected it might have been technique, rather than equipment.
But, given what she knows about skiing, I took her advice on board and called in to see Benny Wax at Inner Bootworks in Stowe - his shop is between the Stoweflake (where I was staying) and the skiing. His team is considered one of the best in the US, so I was happy to call in to see them.
Because the boots were new, and I was starting to get used to them, I thought it was possible that my alignment could be out.

Anyway, he looked at my boots, then laser aligned me (ok, probably not a laser, but a very fine point of red light), which he used to see if my knees were aligned properly when I was standing and when I was flexed.

The conclusion? Well, if I was to spend several days with him, he might alter the boots by a tiny fraction, but it would be very small, and he would prefer not to make the change at all, as it wouldn't really be worth it.
His exact words were "you are aligned pretty much perfect".
He's not known for complimenting other bootfitters, but after seeing my set up, and that there was nothing he would do to improve on it, he then wanted to know who did the fitting, where, everything.

So, SZK, you can be pleased to hear that Benny Wax thinks you did an excellent job.

...and what do I think?
Well, by Sunday afternoon, I started to tweak one of the bindings down a little, as the boots were starting to feel like extensions of my legs/feet.

Oh, and you never told me how WARM they are!

In conclusion, THANK YOU SZK. snowHead
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I put this little image together of the bootfitting time at Benny's


The pic in the upper right corner is Comprex, with Fox in the background.
The center pics are Flexon Phil's process of bootfitting.

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Wear The Fox Hat, Embarassed Doors Widened! Embarassed
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SMALLZOOKEEPER, you deserve the kudos you are getting.
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Wear The Fox Hat, Sorry, I was too busy thinking about my own boots to realise I had attempted to hijack you thread Embarassed
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I too made a trip to see SZK last Sunday in the shadows of the Big White Mountain.

As I entered the basement I got a sideways smile from a man with underpants on his head, handshakes and welcomes exchanged I was on the bench, shoes and socks off, a beer was thrust into my hand and we were off.

The procedure followed was exactly as WTFH has written above which thankfully saves me the task of spending all day at my keyboard. I must admit to feeling a little uncomfortable at having a conversation with someone who was staring intently at my feet for 3 hours, even when I used the basement exit into the car park for a cheeky smoke !

I've skied for about 20 weeks over the last 15 years or so and for the vast majority of the time I have spent on snow, there has always been the nagging feeling that something is not quite right. The boots that SZK fitted for me took away that feeling more or less from the first run. For the first time on skis I really felt that I could turn and edge the ski putting more and more pressure on as my confidence in the boots grew.

My only regret is that I didn't do this five years wgo.

SMALLZOOKEEPER, as you recommended I've pulled the liners out, had them through the washing machine on a boil wash, would you tumble dry them on a medium or hot heat ?

wink wink wink wink wink wink
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bladeskier, I was told by SZK that you are better just leaving the liners in, and washing the lot. Madeye-Smiley
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I was told by Kramer just to leave the liners & boots in your ski bag under the bed with all your washing, and worry about it the next time you want to go skiing.
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bladeskier, out of interest, which boots did SZK sort you out with?
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SMALLZOOKEEPER, I was skiing last week with a friend who had had a pair of boots fitted at an expensive place in Courchevel at the end of last season. She'd been wearing them in around the house & they were agony.
After a couple of hours skiing in them she was in pain & returned to the appartment. In the evening my husband (not a bootfitter!) had a look at them & took out the footbeds - to discover that the left footbed had been put in the right boot - & vice versa! Laughing Laughing Now, if only she'd visited you... Toofy Grin
The boots were fine after that.
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rainman, the most expensive ones he could find in the shop wink

Only joking, they are the same as WTFH, Dalbello Pro.

Shocking colour, superb boots !
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