Fit for Skiing: How to select and fit a ski boot What You Should Be Thinking Let your bootfitter worry about dialing in the right fit; you should focus on the performance aspects of the boots you’re trying on. Your bootfitter can assist you in this arena as...
Absolutely everything! The late iconic super-coach Warren Witherell was first to quip that the average skier can improve more by having boots aligned than through an entire season of private lessons. Warren doesn’t malign lessons—quite the contrary—but his wry...
Alpine boots have most definitely changed since this model’s era… but how much have they evolved lately? One Saturday last season a customer of my generation was perched on the boot bench at Bobo’s enduring a somewhat frustrating fitting session...
How Not to Buy a Ski Boot One of Realskiers’ core missions is to recognize and reward excellence in product design. We’ve created a sophisticated protocol to identify the best alpine skis, sorted by terrain preference, skier style and gender. This means we end up with...
Every day of every ski season, well meaning but untrained bootfitters at general sporting goods stores cheerfully guide skiers into the wrong boots. This is not due to any inherent wickedness of 20-something man, but because real mastery takes time to...
