Choose Ski Boots
by Aldo Pecher
underestimate the importance of the boots. Yet being the point of connection between the foot and the skiing, the boot is the key to successfully transfer the ski body movements and changes of pressure. Choose a great ski boot is essential for safety and fun. The boots are often classified as Race, All Around, All Around Top Level. The differences are not just. A Model Race will be stiff, not very comfortable, very responsive and just will forgive mistakes. What All Around, is soft, comfortable, relatively responsive, but more forgiving of mistakes.
To choose the boot always just go in a specialized center with a wide choice and listen to the advice of the shopkeeper. For the test bring the socks you normally use for skiing. When putting the boot check the ease of entry. Manufacturers have come a long way trying to encourage the entry of the foot, but not all models have the same comfort.
Shop all the boots are a little softer. The plastic when placed in low temperature inevitably tightens. These are not big differences, but sure, you should take this into account.
Once fitted the boot, close the levers, starting from the tip, making sure that the heel is well positioned and set back. For the length of the plantar area measurement is easy: while standing up, the fingers must touch the toe of the boot, flexing the knee tip of the boot must not be more accessible.
For convenience, the discourse is ; more complex. Depending on the manufacturers offer models with the worn soles of the feet wider or closer, trying to adapt to the shape of the skiers. However, the foot should be wrapped well, blocked well, without painful pressure points, while the fingers should be able to move slightly. In the boot shop always seems a little closer than when you wake, keep in mind that using the shoe tends to give in and settle. Test models of various manufacturers, until it identified a favorite. After choosing the type and size, slip the boots on both feet and keep them on for at least a quarter of an hour.
The main features to assess and classify a ski boot are:
- The rigidity of the boot
stiffness allows the transmission of the supports with efficacy. The lateral rigidity is an essential criterion condizionna as the edging.
- Avvolgomento foot and leg
The boot should wrap the foot and leg. The heel should never get up, the front foot must adhere to the shoe. The foot and leg should be kept evenly. There should be no hard parts, or stronger pressure on certain areas.
- Flexible front
Some disciplines require a pronounced flexibility Front (moguls, carving, powder snow).
- The return of elastic energy
The boot must be solletitato progressively from the skier and must have sufficient flexibility to facilitate the work of the muscles.
All components of a modern boot for alpine skiing are made of synthetic materials and metal alloys, aimed at achieving a compromise between comfort and performance. The main components are:
- Gambit
'a structural component and serves several functions. Not only connects the boot with the leg, but with its forward inclination also influences the posture of the skier. This determines a position with the knees flexed more or less. Another important factor is its elasticity and deformation of the tibia to the pressure on the tongue, and this significantly affects skiing making the boot more or less reactive. This elasticity is commonly called Flex and expressed by a number. such as a Flex 10 (or 100) expresses a boot "hard", while a Flex 6 (or 60) a "soft". Companies often put these numbers in the model name.
Addition to the usual closing levers in the cuff is called a strap Velcro Strap, which closes the boot top.
- Flex How
you can guess is a setting that makes it more or less inclined to the shank.
A pronounced tilt towards the front of the spoiler allows a more marked slowdown of the knees and encourages the edging and the beginning of the curves .
Unfortunately, muscle strain is proportional to the bending of the knees. Over the highback is tilted forward, the effort will be more significant. Each skier must then find the right balance between comfort and performance.
- Canting
The canting allows you to change the inclination of the cuff for optimum edge grip or offset the specific morphology of the leg of the skier.
canting has a great utility for who is not a professional skier.
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Hull The hull is a structural element made of plastic materials of different hardness and with elements of reinforced at critical points. A curiosity: for economical production of a measure of hull rule covers two half-measures, with the aid of appropriate internal inserts. For example the same hull can cover the measure 27.0 and 27.5. The settings for the excavation is limited, there are the levers, normally two as to the cuff, but also other solutions are proposed with levers or less with the lacing detail. However the standard is four levers, usually in light alloy with precision adjustment possibilities. These adjustments are made by tightening or loosening the levers on their axis, the spacing given appropriately.
- I raise the heel
Dalbello mostly present in the models, is a screw that allows the heel to lift the bringing of Consequently the support of the skier forward. Spoiler rear, but also the front, is a movable plate which allows to better adapt the cuff to the calf underestimated An element of the hull is the sole. Besides being the element that allows us to walk without skis, also represents the interface between the boot and ski, and since all the boots are good for all attacks, the soles are all standardized. This means that respond to specific (very precise) measures established in the DIN standard. But there's more: the attacks are designed to operate in relation to these standardized measures. If the measures change, for example, because the sole is worn, you'll drop attacks (or not they'll drop) as expected. Skiers do very little attention to the state of the soles, but it is important to carry your boots when you are calibrating the attacks. The technicians tareranno them also in function of the state of the soles. Also some parts of the soles can be replaced if they are too damaged.
- Scarpetta
Determines the comfort of the boot and the transmission of impulses to the hull. The liner must then keep the foot warm, be soft, to maintain good contact with the hull, dry quickly, all contrasting characteristics between them. This explains why the liner has reached a high level of complexity and engineering, with the use of many materials, such as batteries, EVA, velvet, polyethylene, gels, cork, etc. ... Once you close the boot
The foot should be well accommodated within the shoe, with heel and instep, very still, with her fingers still moving and without painful compression points. Given that the morphology varies from skier to skier, manufacturers offer many boots with shoes thermoforming.
The liner is heated with special equipment, the skier will insert the foot and subsequent cooling in the shoe maintains the imprint. This is not always a necessary practice, since the shoes of today have self-modeling features, and only the experts tend to customize the boot.
Inside we find the shoe insole. There is a structural element, but very important to him because his foot and the pulses are transmitted to the skis. It 's built in foam and sometimes has some inserts to fit better to the shape of the foot. Since the morphology of the foot varies from skier to skier, the most sophisticated replace the plantar series with one made to measure.
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