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A friend just forwarded me the following link for Dahu boots that he had seen in an inflight magazine, which are a very different take on the usual ski boots where you wear a liner like a thinner snowboard boot and clip it into a skeleton frame. Anyone seen these at all? Seem like an interesting concept although I wonder if they'd be stiff enough to ski in, although they look more comfortable:
http://www.dahusports.com/
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Whitters, been seen before and about $1000+. I like the idea to be able to use them for ski & board but not at that price
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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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Similar concept at a similar price
http://apexskiboots.com/
If they are indeed can be used for both ski and board and provide good level of performance, support and comfort, 1000 is not too bad. Surefoot ski boots cost as much and provide nothing but pain - both during fitting and skiing.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Surefoot ski boots cost as much and provide nothing but pain
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Is this not surely more of a comment on Surefoot than anything else? My Salomon (race) boots cost significantly less, were almost pain free through the fitting process and are mighty comfortable now.
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Surefoot ski boots cost as much and provide nothing but pain - both during fitting and skiing.
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bit of a mahoosive generalisation.
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Surely the boot will be too tight at the toe for normal daywear. If they are loose enough for that then your foot will be too loose when in ski because the heel moves back.
I don't get it myself
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glasgowcyclops, a good snowboard boot is as well fitting and supportive as a ski-boot for most purposes, the exo-frame should be more than adequate to make them indistinguishable in feel from a hardboot. Got to say if my old Technica's are DOA out of storage I will go have a look at the APEX.
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I reckon pinch and pressure points would be an issue with the reduced surface area.
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saw them at ISPO last year, their stand had a fancy rope across it to stop people going onto it, you could look at a distance, but even though they had a few boots there nobody was allowed to try them on??? strange way to encourage a store to buy their product... or maybe they thought people would just laugh at them
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They look like your feet would get cold and wet.
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Just looked at some info.
Seems okay. Mind you,,,,,, so are my dalbellos from rivington alpine.
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You know it makes sense.
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I hope to be testing a pair in January, I'll let you know how they are
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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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I'm sure the info is on there somewhere but I can't quite see it, what's the internal foot widths (last) on either of them 
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Poster: A snowHead
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feef, I'd be interested to know how you get on. In the meantime I might pop to a nearby stockist and take a look.
pam w, not sure why they would anymore than snowboard/decent hiking boots?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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They look fabulous and a decent solution to the various problems of ski boots. I seriously hope they are as good as they claim and more manufacturers develop similar products. I'll be first in the queue if it all pans out, I bloody hate traditional ski boots...
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| They look fabulous and a decent solution to the various problems of ski boots. I seriously hope they are as good as they claim and more manufacturers develop similar products |
They did, about 10 years ago Salomon, Rossignol etc had these kind of soft ski boots - the only difference is they filled in the gaps of the frame so you didn't get wet feet. I saw them for 1 season then never again. What happened? Salomon Verse and Rossignol Soft (which did exactly what it said on the tin  ).
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And remember these ultimate in softies?
World Cup slalom ace, Piero Gros came to Cairngorm in about '85 and demo'd them. He could ski them fairly normally - but he was just about the only one. Bad idea #564
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davidof, I wonder what happened? I can't be the only person who hates ski boots. Admittedly I have far better fitting boots now so no numbness or toenail loss, but they are still heavy, clumpy, difficult to get on and off and awkward to walk in, the equivalent of having a plaster cast on each foot.
Maybe we should all literally vote with our feet...? 
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Hi all,
I've been skiing the dahu boot now for 3 weeks.....it's bloody great!! I was skiing the american boot Apex but came across the Dahu boot via a friend in Cortina, it skis like any standard ski boot, the flex says 120 but that is a bit optamistic I'd say it's nearer a flex 100/110 (compared to my head raptors) I can even drive the car with the inner boot!!
check it out at www.dahusport.com ...no uk dealers but I'm based in italy and they will deliver to the uk I think.
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I skied the Apex a couple of weeks ago - terrible heavy, super long BSL, my alignment was totally fubared and my knackered old Heads felt like slippers by comparison. Truly a not great solution.
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do they really weight 11.5kg?
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A friend was after some new boots, dead keen on the Apex's. Told him to go up to 1850 to try them out, so he took a demo pair out for a day - he was back within a couple of hours to buy boots from me. He said he was scared he'd break them as they felt that soft torsionally.
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I wonder if these things are 'the future'... at least for the recreational skier?
I really like the concept and particularly of the Apex which seems to meet the brief (for my ideal boot) a little better than the Dahu - I guess we'll have to wait to find out if they ski as well as their fans say they do.
Whilst there have been similar products before, was there the same 'evolutionary pressure*' (and to a lesser extent the materials) to be able to make them a success?
*By which I mean that there is a comfortable alternative to the ski boot which a fair percentage of slope users wear all day without pain and has been the sole reason that a number of my chums have moved from skiing onto snowboarding...
R
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quick up date on the DAHU BOOT, they have a slighty mod. model coming out 2015/2016 called No.7, I swear by these boots now and have them for the Whole family and 4 skiing chums (one of which snobbed them for 2 weeks until i convinced him to try them for 2 hours!!!) I managed to get quite a large discount on the list price.
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