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Cant Adjustment

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My Nordica boots have a Cant adjustment on them, which has been set on the middle setting forever. I'm bow legged and heavier on my right foot, and on the inside of that foot. My right foot is my dominant foot and I regularly think that my left ski is under less control - if I am skiing in a straight line my left leg sometimes catches an edge.

So should I think about adjusting my Cant????
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Suggest consult an experienced boot fitter. Based on what you describe, might be your best investment ever!
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When I bought my boots the boot fitter did look at my feet and gait and expressed surprise that I could ski at all.......
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I went and had all sorts of canting and alignment fettling done to my new boots by CEM earlier this year and I immediately noticed the difference it made to my skiing. Loads more precision and control now that I'm *really* well balanced. I wouldn't faff with canting on my own tho; I'd only get a serious bootfitter to do it.
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Go to a bootfitter, moving the cuff won't really fix an alignment issue.
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Bear in mind that the 'canting' adjustment on boots (it's not really canting) is there to accommodate rather than correct your stance. If you do have alignment problems you can make adjustments around the boot/binding/ski interface which should allow the ski to run flatter and truer, but that's something best left for a boot fitter who has experience of that as it tends to beyond normal boot fitting work. CEM might be able to recommend somebody near to home for you - is Alain Baxter in your neck of the woods?
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"Indeed, the better the instructor the more certain it is that they are among the fortunate few who have never suffered serious misalignment in their boots. Never having had to adapt to a misaligned boot by adopting an awkward stance, they will very likely view other people’s stance peculiarities as stemming from poor technique. They are wrong to hold this view but it is natural that they do."

Here's a very interesting link about ski boot alignment -

http://www.skibootalignment.com/page8.html
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Matt1959 wrote:
When I bought my boots the boot fitter did look at my feet and gait and expressed surprise that I could ski at all.......


and then he did what to correct or deal with the obvious problem?
If nothing.... blimey.

Also, if you see a good bootfiiter like CEM and sort the problem, i'm sure they'll also check forward/back lean - my Hawx boots have a forwrd lean adjustment thingy on the rear and for me, even the 2 degree adjustment more upright made skiing noticeably better balanced ( unfortunately different ski bindings will have their own different ramp angle, delta or whatever they call it... so i suppose you'd want to set it up in your own skis or preferred binding?)
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