 Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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i would suggest having a footbed with this style of liner, the manufacturer does say you do not NEED one but the support is not particularily good without
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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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mdemon2, OK imagine this. The Footbed, foot dependant, will control the motion of the foot reducing excess change in shape weighted to unweighted. If you mould the liner with a footbed, thus controlling the motion available to the foot to a minimum, the cast of the foot taken will be more accurate and therefore offer better support and contact for the foot. If you mould the liner without a footbed, the impression of the foot inside the liner will be the unweighted shape and then the pronated shape and everything inbetween, thus being an inaccurate cast. Imagine going to the hospital with a broken wrist then shaking your hand around whilst the plaster cast is setting. Not much support afterwards.
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Perfect explanations! Footbed it is.
Many thanks. 
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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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Without meaning to hijacjk this thread could anyone offer some advise for 'my' boots?
Spent my first week skiing recently ( & off again at easter); the one big 'downer' was the pain my boots were giving me. I used to hockey skate many years ago & recall suffered a lot of similar boot pain then.
One problem I may have is that my left foot is a size 10 ( UK ) & the right a 8 1/2. Being a novice I will be renting equip again but should I rent 2 pairs off boots to get the correct size for both feet? ( on my trip the rental shop would not supply 2 different sizes to make '1 pair'. I tend to buy foot ware in the middle of both feet sizes which has been okay over the years but probably need a more excact fit for ski's...................any input appriciated.
Was considering trying snowboarding as the boots are supposedly much more comfortable!!
Any advise appriciated
Ta
Mitch
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Mitch it suprises me that the rental comapny would not supply you with an odd pair of boots ...supose they were concerned aboout having to set buinding diferently and liability etc etc when it comes to purchasing boots it may be possible to find a supplier to trade their sample size with the odd one that you don't need ..all depends on the exact requried size but most of the uk suppliers have their sample boots in 8/8.5 ish best thing to do is have a good bootfitter measure your feet and see how much the actual difference is and if it is a fixed difference or is it that one foot pronates [collapses] more than the other which could make all the difference 1.5 sizes is not a massive amount and some clever bootfitting may be able to accomodate it...snowboard boots more comfortable........................ naaaaaaaaaaaaa 
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mdemon2,
My guess is that you need to be customised more than a lot of people ... I'd start by going to see a few of these good people above to see how big the problem is...
I don't think there is any benefit at all in trying to get sorted off the shelf...
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HIJACK #2
Any of you notice that reversing the wrap direction with 2-piece boots tends to throw the net cuff angle off?
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Yes!!!
The number of client's I've had to re-wrap during lessons......
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veeeight, sounds like you ought to carry a permanent marker, start labeling IN and OUT?
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