Stab it!
Downhill ski tip
BY CHRIS LENNON
PHOTO GILLIAN MORGAN
When you are negotiating
random obstacles like rocks,
try stabbing the snow directly
above the obstacle with your pole to
help you avoid the hazard. By planting
your pole right on the apex of the obstacle
you want to avoid, you can ensure that you will
steer around or off the hazard and keep on going
without giving the obstacle any more thought.
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in the back, mark the areas where your way around, and that hurts. A lot! Your feet forefoot alternately hits each side of the
bunions are and punch them into shape will grow into funny shapes that will stay shell. If you try this in several boots you’ll
now as well. that way and hurt even more next year! have a good feel for width. Narrower is
If you have a narrow foot with bunions, Do buy the narrowest boot reasonable almost always better.
buy a narrow boot. Do not use extra boot because it will do a proper job of holding Don’t measure your foot in U.S. size and
length or width to accommodate bunions your foot in position, making the boot work then buy the corresponding U.S. size boot.
and spurs. more effectively. It is almost certainly too big. Measure your
Don’t use custom liners to fix boot/foot Do measure your foot width with a foot in Mondo (foot length in centimetres)
arguments. Shells hurt, liners cradle. Fix the Brannock measuring device at the boot and try on the corresponding Mondo boot,
shells and use a custom liner (Conformable, shop. If your foot is C or narrower it will then measure shell fit.
Intuition, Zipfit, etc.) as the crowning touch probably fit best in a race boot. If you don’t Finally, don’t buy any boot without a shell
for an already beautifully sculpted shell. like stiff boots, buy a soft race boot. Adult fit. Make this your mantra and enjoy.
And don’t use foot beds to eliminate pain sizes are made down to a 90 flex. My Lou Rosenfeld has an MSc. in Mechanical
either, unless the pain is caused by foot 120-pound, 16-year-old daughter can crush Engineering with specialization in Biomechanics.
mechanics and is diagnosed by a qualified a 90 boot. You can too. Narrow boots for His research involved foot orthotics and
medical practitioner. If the pain is caused touring are harder to find but Garmont has human adaptation. He has also researched
by foot/shell collision the help offered by been doing a good job for years and Scarpa the effects of ski binding position for
a foot bed will be minimal. Use a footbed has narrower models than in the past. Nordica and Atomic, is a frequent author for
similarly to a custom liner. Dynafit also has models that treat narrow Ski Press, Ski Racing Canada, Ski Canada
Don’t buy boots, attempt to break them feet well. and Ski Racing of articles on boot fit,
in and then come back to complain about Test width by putting both feet in liner- balance and alignment and is an invited boot-
pain. That is like trying to break your feet less shells with the heel in the heel pocket. fit expert for the “Ask the boot fitters” forum on
in to mold to your boot instead of the other pivot your foot on the heel so that your
Epicski.com.
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