 Poster: A snowHead
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Trying to understand all the modern terminology...
Showing my ignorance, does high volume (boots) equal lots of room for padding or does it just mean only suitable for big fat feet?
Likewise does low volume mean not much space for padding equals a very direct fit for precision (or just suitable for shallow skinny feet)?
I think my Raichles were 'low volume', at least they are now by the state of the liners (knackered!).
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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roberto,
the higher the volume of the boot the more space it has in it for your foot, likewise the lower volume the boot the less space there is. the ideal situation is to get the lowest volume shell for your foot volume without causing problems, there may be areas that need to be modified and there may need to be some break in time to pack the liner down a little, but if you put a low volume (slim) foot into a high volume boot it will swim around after a week or so skiing if not before.
the liners odf ski booots will pack down as you ski, if the foot fits the volume of the shell + liner with the minimun of excess space then there will be less movement therfore the liner will last longer than it would if your foot was rattling around in the boot.
eg. if you push a car slowly against the bumper of another car to move it you may cause a little damage but hopefully not too much, take the first car back 20 feet and accelerate into the car you want to move and the damage will be much more.... i think that makes sense  another point is that having a foam liner is only ever any good if the shell is right in the first place, there is no point putting a slim foot in a wide boot and trying to fill the gaps with foam, it will feel great at first but will quickly pack down and feel loose.
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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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I, for instance am, low volume, CEM, for instance is is high volume. Tee Hee 
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roberto,
the higher the volume of the boot the more space it has in it for your foot, likewise the lower volume the boot the less space there is. the ideal situation is to get the lowest volume shell for your foot volume without causing problems, there may be areas that need to be modified and there may need to be some break in time to pack the liner down a little, but if you put a low volume (slim) foot into a high volume boot it will swim around after a week or so skiing if not before.
the liners odf ski booots will pack down as you ski, if the foot fits the volume of the shell + liner with the minimun of excess space then there will be less movement therfore the liner will last longer than it would if your foot was rattling around in the boot.
eg. if you push a car slowly against the bumper of another car to move it you may cause a little damage but hopefully not too much, take the first car back 20 feet and accelerate into the car you want to move and the damage will be much more.... i think that makes sense another point is that having a foam liner is only ever any good if the shell is right in the first place, there is no point putting a slim foot in a wide boot and trying to fill the gaps with foam, it will feel great at first but will quickly pack down and feel loose. |
You still stealing my quotes, cheeky.
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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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SMALLZOOKEEPER,
cheeky bar-steward
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Seems to me that "volume" is a strange term to describe the space in a boot. A foot may be very narrow but high arched, or very wide but flat. Which has the higher volume? And which will the boot fit? (Well, obviously neither without a custom made footbed, a stretch, padding etc, says the bootfitter  )
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maggi, volume = height*width*depth, so it's hard to say which of your two examples will have a higher volume, you'd need to put figures on it!
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Wear The Fox Hat,
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you'd need to put figures on it
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Quite! And as no-one knows the volume of their feet it's pretty meaningless. (Sorry, got a bit of a thing about boots at present. Got new ones from Profeet and am dreading trying them out on Friday at Castleford. If they don't feel OK that's another day I'll have to skive off work and go and get lost in London  . Please, God, let them fit!)
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maggi,
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Quite! And as no-one knows the volume of their feet it's pretty meaningless.
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the whole volume thing is subjective, and a generalisation, there are many different shapes of drinks bottles that all holod 0.5 l of drink!! asWear The Fox Hat, says height* width* depth is how you measure volume, but in boot fitting terms we are not meauring units of litres or cubic cm we are breaking it down to low, medium, high and prehaps splits in between. the info is something gained with years of experience and trying and fitting boots, trying on every pair that comes into the store, not only in your measured size but in the shell size up and down to see how each compare, the comparisons between models are what bootfitters talk about eg if i put on a boot and it feels loose on my foot in certain areas then i would consider it to be high volume in those areas (i have a fairly chunky foot) yet if i put on a typical race boot ie nordica dobermann with a last measuremrnt of 95 i can keep it on for oh about 3 minutes!! before i want to rip it off, it is very narrow , + shallow hense low volume.
all in all you have to put a bit of trust in the fitter, good luck with your boots on Friday, but living in Nottingham why did you not go to Lockwoods in Leamington??
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