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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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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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ssh, hopefully I'll get a video in Stowe, and the instructors and experts will be able to analyse it again! 
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Wear The Fox Hat, I care far less about the analysis than your own sensations. 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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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
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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? 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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SnowHot, well, I don't think it's fair to compare your legs with mine...
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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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! 
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You know it makes sense.
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For what it's worth, my legs were ridiculed as well when I posted them 
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| SnowHot wrote: |
I think you're just a big chicken that my legs are hotter than yours.  |
Um, I've SHOWN my legs!
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Poster: A snowHead
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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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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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SZK
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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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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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! 
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...
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morzine is just over an hour from cham, but you'll need to prebook an appointment....
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SO what I want to know is this.........
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 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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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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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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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. 
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snowandtrek, I belive he was.
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You know it makes sense.
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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?
Last edited by You know it makes sense. on Tue 19-12-06 17:07; edited 1 time in total
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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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.
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Poster: A 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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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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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 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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bladeskier, I was told by SZK that you are better just leaving the liners in, and washing the lot. 
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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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rainman, the most expensive ones he could find in the shop
Only joking, they are the same as WTFH, Dalbello Pro.
Shocking colour, superb boots !
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