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Ski boots and shock absorbtion

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Am in the process of buying new ski boots, and noticed that some of the current ski boots have some form of shock absorbtion feature, like a 'Dynamic Shock Absorber' in the Fischer MX7, a 'soft boot-board' in Rosignol B12, and similar features in several freestyle boots.

Does anyone have experience of such features and whether they are more than just gimmicks - do they make a difference?

I like to jump, and anything that would make things easier on the old joints would be welcome wink snowHead


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Adam Button has some Salomon 1080 Foil - freestyle boots which have a shock absorbing board in them. They really are quite "squishy" when you jump, but also nice for comfort too. In fact I have ordered a pair for my Xwaves, as they can be retro fitted.

Comfort yes they are great, whether they make you springy like Zebedee or Tigger, I can't quite comment yet! Twisted Evil
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Jarvski, I'm sure they wouldn't make me jump any higher, but am just wondering how useful such features are in protecting my knees and back from the shock and impacts after flailing in the air for 1.5 seconds wink

Any other people have experience/opinion on their usefullness?
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Superb for grass skiing. Little Angel , though I'm not a big fan of having them in between boot board and foot since in tight boots that means I get vibration throught the top of the foot.


On regular skis, I don't see them as being useful for energy absorption of large bumps, rather more useful as suppressing the nasties from crossing frozen piste basher tracks & chunky ice.
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Sorry to be dim here but which is right?

a) Some kind of vibration absorbing plate is put between the boot shell and liner
b) between liner and footbed
c) attached to sole of boot and interfaces between boot and binding
d) between binding and ski

Surely if a) or b) then the fit of the boot is changed and as a minimum a new footbed is probably require
If c) then binding performance is compromised

Help me out...please Puzzled
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umm I am confused what happens when you try to push foot down at any particular point on this soft boot board... Puzzled
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