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Ski Boots for Juniors

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Next season (this Christmas Toofy Grin ) both my Daughters are due/need new ski boots.
Ages 11 and 15 both have passed all the junior ESF ski tests and ski a minimum of 5 weeks each season plus the odd visit to Soton dry slope and Tignes glacier in the summer.

Q1 Is it worth persuing some retailers Child offers along the lines of wear + bring the boots back for a bigger size next year.

Q2 Anyone care to reccomend a make model of boot.


Q3 Do they need to visit a bootfitter Toofy Grin
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boredsurfin, have you tried ebay?
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Ray Zorro, Toofy Grin
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boredsurfin,

Q1 child retailers - have you tried Clarks?

Q2 make and model are immaterial, just get the ones with the most pink.

Q3 definitely think that this means that you should go to Chamonix in early December for a long weekend

Sorted Very Happy
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Ray Zorro, Q2 Just done that with ski's for the 10 year old Laughing
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Most of the ski shops in Verbier do the following Annual Rental deal:
You pay 60% of the new price for new kit
40% of the new price for 1 year old kit.

If it needs to be changed during the year (growing kids feet a prime reason) it can be changed as often as needed at no extra cost (and if you opted for the new kit then you keep getting a brand new pair at each change).

Any decent ski shop will take time and care over fitting the boots in such a case.

We have found it to be by far the best way of getting boots for the kids.

However we buy their own skis, always specifying rental style bindings, and then the skis last 3-4 seasons by the time they have been passed down from son to daughter.
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boredsurfin, My kids are younger than yours - but have big feet for their age & therefore our dry slope struggles to fit them with the skis to match the boots - so I buy them skis & boots - the boots always in a sale - usually snow & rock. Because of their ages - 7 & 5 they have small kids boots i.e. the head x carve range - but my 7 yr old likes the salomon performa range best. One of the instructors on snowHead suggested buying the most flexible until they are racing - because they need flexibility to help their technique develop - wish I could remember the whole quote. Zorros comment about e-bay is correct - but beware - I have just looked & the x-wave looks quite expensive. I buy from S&R - but lockwoods are really good too ....

http://www.snowandrock.com/shop/activity/ski/junior/ski_boots

also ebay - in particular look at the performas at the bottom;

http://search.ebay.co.uk/junior-ski-boots_W0QQfromZR10QQssPageNameZWLRS

sorry for such a long post - hope it makes sense - I spend a long time worrying about these things Laughing Laughing
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boredsurfin, Just bought myson some more boots from Ski Bartlett. He's had his Rossis for 3 snow weeks and a whole season of training / racing on the dry so I can't complain.
The boots we so well used that I couldn't bring myself to try and get the discount from Snow and Rock for a child upgrade so I have donated them to Hemel Club for use by kids in need.
Bartlett's have a wide range of kids secondhand boots which have been traded in after very little use. The new (to us) Technicas were only £45 looked virtually un-used and my lad promptly went out on them the next day and finished second in BG2 in the first summer league ERSA! Worth every penny to have a specialist assess his needs and kit him out correctly.
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