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Ski gear for growing kids

 Poster: A snowHead
Poster: A snowHead
Thinking both skis and boots.

Obviously kids grow like growing beans, feet get bigger, bodies get taller.

However, with some kids, like mine at the moment, this may not necessarily be accompanied by huge gains in weight (which I know helps my stiff skis to flex enough to use them as intended). Though their skiing skills are improving considerably.

My eldest has just turned 12 and we have just sorted them out new skis for this year (and hopefully next), so I am not looking at an urgent issue here, but I have started to think about how gear progresses as they get older.

Obviously they are in gear (boots and skis) designed for kids at the moment, but shoe size and height may eventually dictate that kids gear gets less easy to find and you have to buy 'adult' gear which I guess?? is heavier, stiffer etc. At what point do you know that adult gear is the best way forwards? Is it just when they fit it or are there any problems with putting large, but possibly lightish kids into technically adult gear too soon.

Or is it all just marketting hype with no real difference between the quality of kids and adult gear apart from the VAT and graphic designs on things as, for example, with riding hats?
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