Best fit for ski boots

if their really tight to begin with thats good bexause they will expand after 4-5 days if riding and if their already loose then they will be horrible so definitely buy the tight ones.


I thought the skis made you good. I got the skis and it turned out I was wrong. It must be the clothes.
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yeah but are you gonna grow by next season, but the boots should grow with you like ^^^^^that guy said.
ever wonder if iliterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup???

I'd ask your local ski shop boot fitter. And I recomend you get boots with modable liners. that way if your foot grows you back and get it molded again.

i am a local ski shop boot fitter and i say the perfect fit is when all the toes touch the end of the liner and when you flex forward you can just barley fill the front, the average boots pack out about a half size so .... 26.5 after 15 times is like a 27 and so on. go with the tight ones.. even if you have problems take them to your local shop and they can tap or shave the shell or cut the liner, theres millions of things to do to make a boot fit perfect

The Salomon Performa 7 might be good for you then cause you can hot mold it over and over, and you can adjust it's flex.
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-Dan
''An object at rest cannot be stopped!''

Shawn nailed it, and loose boots suck. You may grow next year but thats something you need to consider, what is more important to you, good fit or fit next season. And yes the liner will expand a little.



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Shawn knows his shit, I back shawn... Too may years of boot fitting myself... errr... retail...

get a good orthodic too, not some limp fish dr. shoals, even those surefoot ones suck, my personal favorites are 'Superfeet' full cork. they are totaly worth the 150 bucks, they last 5 or ten years too. Just make sure who ever makes your cork can explain to you what 'Subtailor Neutral' means, if they can't... go somewhere else.

PS subtailor Neutral is a term in reference to the subtailor joint in the foot. The subtailor Joint controls the pronation/supernation of the foot. In a ski boot you want NO pronation, and NO supernation, (ie neutral: SUBTAILOR NEUTRAL. 99% of all peoples feet pronate, its how your foot adapts to walking over uneven terrain, pronation in ski boot = bad, reason being, when the foot pronates it elongates, and gets wider creating extra pressure on the toes and the 5th metatarsal, that little hot spot you get right on the outside of your foot behind your little toe. It can cause problems other places in the boot too.) On second thought, if they dont know about pronation and supernation you probably shouldn't get your boots fit there either.

oh you might as well shell check the boot too, take the liner out, stick your foot in, slide it all the way up to the front of the boot, so your toe is touching the end of the shell. reach down behind your heel, and you should have at max 1 and 1/2 fingers width of space from your heel to the back of the shell. ANY MORE and its TO BIG A BOOT.

thanks guys, yeah I have superfeet they are awesome, and they take up some more space so i decided to get the 27.0's. Cause last year i had 26.5's and my toes killed cause they were too small, so these should be aweomse, btw i got the new 1080's pro models for 399.99, it was an awesome deal... thanks again
What the hell were they doing with a car on the moon?... havent they gone far enough?

damn jibtech you covered everything i didnt wanna get into.... VERY well said.. and oh yea the full cork superfeet (the red ones) are sick. i just went to a superfeet clinic and its pretty impressive, 90% of all people need (or could benifit from) superfeet. it will help with all aspects of skiing,

oh ya the other big secret about ski boots... there are NO HALF SIZES. the shells for a 27 and a 27.5 are exactly the same, hell even the liners are the same, the only difference is the footbed that comes in the boot, you know that little flimsy one? ya its THICKER in the whole size, that way it takes up more volume and makes up the half size difference. SO as soon as you take the stock foot bed out, and put a custom in, 27 and 27.5 become the SAME thing.

very good! applause....