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Full Tilt Forward Lean

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HalfSenderEnder
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Hey Guys, I recently purchased a pair of First Chair's and am having trouble deciding whether to increase the amount of forward lean. I am a very aggressive skier, and have no trouble staying in the front of my boots. However, my home hill isn't getting as much snow as usual and I have been riding park quite a bit instead of bombing down the steeps and dropping cliffs. I have been riding park up until now on a pair of Moment Underworlds, with Dynafit Beast 14 bindings, and Scarpa touring boots. Needless to say, not the right tools for the job, but it's what I had and I made it work surprisingly well. I acquired a pair of beat up park skis through wheeling and dealing, and would like to know if forward lean makes a marked difference while sliding rails, riding switch, landing in the flat, casing jumps, or just park activities in general. I understand that for big mountain riding its important to have a stiff, forward leaning boot; just not sure about lean when balance plays such an important role, like when sliding a rail. Thanks.
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xxACIDTRIPxx
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Bump. I too would like to know this.
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Piste.Off
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Why not try adding more forward lean and deciding for yourself? Park boots are generally less aggressive leaning obviously but its all personal preference. In the past with my FTs I've always used the larger forward lean shims because I don't like sacrificing downhill performance for park. Though my park skiing nowadays generally consists of one lap at the end of the day if its convenient for me so you might value park performance more than me.

Props for also sliding rails on Beasts. Everytime I'm on my Beast setup I say I wont hit a rail but sometimes I just can't resist.
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skiguy04
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HalfSenderEnderHey Guys, I recently purchased a pair of First Chair's and am having trouble deciding whether to increase the amount of forward lean. I am a very aggressive skier, and have no trouble staying in the front of my boots. However, my home hill isn't getting as much snow as usual and I have been riding park quite a bit instead of bombing down the steeps and dropping cliffs. I have been riding park up until now on a pair of Moment Underworlds, with Dynafit Beast 14 bindings, and Scarpa touring boots. Needless to say, not the right tools for the job, but it's what I had and I made it work surprisingly well. I acquired a pair of beat up park skis through wheeling and dealing, and would like to know if forward lean makes a marked difference while sliding rails, riding switch, landing in the flat, casing jumps, or just park activities in general. I understand that for big mountain riding its important to have a stiff, forward leaning boot; just not sure about lean when balance plays such an important role, like when sliding a rail. Thanks.


First post !!!!!!!

Did not read but leave em
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AGOF
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The classic full tilt/ raichle shell has more forward lean than any other boot in the market. For skiing aggressive the key isn’t having a boot with a ton of forward lean, it’s actually getting yourself into the tongue of the boot aggressively. If you can’t do that it doesn’t matter what boot you are on, you will be missing a key element of control when riding steep terrain at speed.
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HalfSenderEnder
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Yeah don’t have a problem staying forward in my boots, but skiing aggressive wasn’t really the question, more so does it (forward lean) affect balance of rails. But I skied them with the most amount of lean today and they felt fine; I noticed some people complain about their legs hurting in Full Tilts in general, but I’m 90 percent sure that’s because those people don’t lean forward and engage their ankle the right way, so their quads hurt.
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AGOF
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HalfSenderEnderYeah don’t have a problem staying forward in my boots, but skiing aggressive wasn’t really the question, more so does it (forward lean) affect balance of rails. But I skied them with the most amount of lean today and they felt fine; I noticed some people complain about their legs hurting in Full Tilts in general, but I’m 90 percent sure that’s because those people don’t lean forward and engage their ankle the right way, so their quads hurt.


I misinterpreted the question because I didn’t read through. I’ve never used full tilts so I can’t speak to how they ride on rails
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swagburg
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I spent two seasons with the larger full tilt forward lean shims in and now I am back to the stock shims that come installed in the boot. Tbh I can't tell a difference. If you always stay in the front of your boots it doesn't matter too much which ones you have in
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skiguy04
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Best for rails imo
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