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Boot Fitting advice

 Poster: A snowHead
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I may be in the market for new boots, I've been to my local ski shop today and to be honest wasn't overly impressed with their 'specialist bootfitting' rolling eyes knowledge or service.

As I will be in Les Arcs at the end of Feb I wondered if anyone new of a good boot fitter.in the region.

Evidently the area over my instep is quite high and the fact that my feet are small for a bloke (6.5UK)(mondo 25.0) makes my options for boots very limited, can anyone offer some advice?
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Where do you live?
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Bootfitting can be defined as: 'Closing a buckle' and end up by re-fusing the 'Polymer tail' to change the structure of your boots. You decide. Start in resort and ask around.
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Mosha Marc wrote:
Where do you live?


North West Lancs!
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I recommend you try 'Revolver' n Bourg St Maurice. It's about a hundred metres out of town on the Route Des Arcs.I've had a bootfitting service from here and my bunion has to be seen to be believed.
Buy as soon as you arrive and return for as many adjustments as you need.
In my first season I bought in january and was still going back in late April for tweaking. They aim to please! Several other friends have used them and been delighted.
Don't buy in the UK. You need tweaking after a days skiing not after you've returned from holiday.
Another good shop is Freeride.fr in Arc 1950. The bootfitter there, Ben is really good. Prices in resort tend to be a little high!
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Don't buy in the UK.


go on then whizz kid...why not

IMO it is not about the country you buy in but the person fitting the boot, besides the exchange rate is Skullie Skullie
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CEM, Maybe you can offer some advice, my current salomons (performa 7.0 size 25.5) which are actually a ladies boot from about 9 seasons ago have started to cause pressure on the top of my foot, the shop I went to yesterday said there was nothing they could do about it. They said that I would need new boots because i have a higher than normal instep and that tecinica were my best bet. They just happened to have a pair of 25.0's rolling eyes which I tried but I wasn't 100% happy with so left it. I think the fact that I have small feet give me a limited choice.
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Gregd, mens boots from all manufacturers are available in 25/25.5 in some makes and models they go down to 24/24.5 the major issue is that not many shops stock them!

if there is pressure on top of the instep it can be resolved in a few ways...do you have a footbed? sounds like it could take up space a but a good footbed will stabilize the foot and stop it elongating/collapsing.... a moving target is difficult to hit whe it comes to doing a modification
the next suggestions are things wthat can give differing degrees of resolution of the problem dependant on the nature of the pressue[ie point pressure or difuss large area]

1 grind plastic area from the top of the tongue
2 grind base board to drop foot downwards
3 stretch boot instep upwards either the whole thing or a specific point... many shops will shy away from this as it can be a pain, howver with the correct tools it can be pretty easy

tecnica is one option for a higher instep but it also depends on the shape of the rest of the foot, the only problem i can see with working on the old boots is if they have a particular material on the top of them which salomon used about that time, it melts quiker than ice cream on a warm day and makes stretching the top of the boot near impossible, saying that i don't think it was used on the performa series [it is a long time ago though rolling eyes rolling eyes ]
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CEM wrote:
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Don't buy in the UK.


go on then whizz kid...why not

IMO it is not about the country you buy in but the person fitting the boot, besides the exchange rate is Skullie Skullie


I really can't see why anyone would want to buy in resort. Buy in UK, we have several specialists, wear them at home, do some skiing in a snowdome/dry slope, re-visit if necessary for tweaks.
If you buy in resort, you'll waste ski time, have to break them in while on holiday, when your holiday finishes and they're still not quite right, then what do you do?

My Boots in UK £350, in Chamonix 500 Euro.

I buy mine in Bicester.
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CEM, Thanks for that, tbh I'm not really sure what to do. I'll probably manage with them for this season and see if I can arrange a 'business trip' wink to Bicester some time later in the year Toofy Grin
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What it boils down to is do you want a comfortable boot with a high degree of control or not?
These guys in the resorts and surrounding towns have a lot of experience and it doesn't come cheap.
I've had about three hours of bootfitting on each of the last two pairs of boots.
When I was working in the UK and employed private one man contractors then I would often pay £30/hour just for their labour.
I agree about buying most other things in the UK except boots where you need to be able to receive immediate support and adjustment while your foot is still experiencing the difficulty. You then need to go and ski the boots the next day to see that everything is OK. How disappointing to go skiing and find out that you still have a problem and that you've got a whole weeks skiing before you can return to the UK and let them have another go at sorting out your problem?
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Billy Whizz, What happens when you come to the end of your holiday and the boots are still not right?
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snowbunny, Then you found a bad bootfitter in resort.
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SMALLZOOKEEPER wrote:
snowbunny, Then you found a bad bootfitter in resort.


I'm asking the question in all seriousness. You spend your whole holiday getting your boots fine tuned, then find yourself 1000km from the shop, back at work/office/wherever and you are still not comfy in the boots. Does not seem to make sense, to give up your hard earned leave either?

Over to you
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My answer is serious, never met a good bootfitter that can work out problems in a seven day holiday. But as Billy Whizz points out, problems often can occur during a sustained ski period that require fine tuning. I have worked in both resort and in the UK and to be honest it's not the skiing or lifestyle that has kept me in resort but the return of happy customers. Something i believe is only possible in resort, not because i'm justifing buying boots where i live and the choices i've made, i'd quite happily move back to the UK if i thought it were possible to achieve the results i can in situ. Little Angel
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That said, the economic issue i can't address, it's up to you guys to evaluate your esteemed value.
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It really is a hard call but I do think that the issues are going to arise more so when you're skiing rather than sat in your living room. Seven hours with your shins in the front of your boots is pretty hard to replicate on the sofa or the snowdome for that matter.
Another friend of mine who also does the season did use a bootfitter in Val D'Isere and returned her money after several weeks of being unable to do the business.
I don't think that this sort of offer would be open to people out for just a week as it would probably have a dire impact in boot hire! Madeye-Smiley
Worth checking out the websites though.
Gregd,
If you're going into Bourg to shop when you arrive on Wednesday then you could pop into Revolver and eyeball the place. If you're lucky someone might be being fitted up. You could even try a fitting, stopping short of the boot being adjusted, saying that you're going to tthink about it.
These guys are fitting lots of boots and so have a lot of experience, particularly with 'badfeet'.
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SMALLZOOKEEPER, I had my boots fitted in the UK. They are ruperb and have never needed them tweaking. Was I lucky?
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Frosty the Snowman, Yes, very lucky, sweetcheeks. wink
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With the current exchange rates, might it be best to buy from a good bootfitter in the UK and then pay a bootfitter in resort for adjustments if necessary?
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SMALLZOOKEEPER wrote:
That said, the economic issue i can't address, it's up to you guys to evaluate your esteemed value.


I'm not sure that I could give the necessary information about my existing biomechanical foot problems to a resort fitter in a foreign language though. I have already seen 1 fitter say he could not do a fitting for me, and he spoke some English.

Economics does not even get a look in with that issue to overcome.
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