Boot cant?

Canuker

Canuker

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Is there any prefered bootcant for park skiing? After having my bboots for 3 years i just relized the bolt you can screw to make the boot lean for morward or backward.

Is it worth changing?
 
I think you are referring to changing the forward lean of your boot, not cant. The bolts that adjust "cant" (really called cuff alignment) moves the upper cuff side to side, whereas forward lean is fore/aft. Without getting too far into it, only have a boot-fitter adjust your cuff alignment. As far as the forward lean is concerned, you can play with that a bit and not mess a ton of things up. But honestly, if you are not experiencing problems with your boot-fit, don't mess with it. There's no sense in changing it for change's sake if things feel ok. It would suck if you started having problems because you messed with either your cuff alignment or your forward lean or both.

If you do have fit issues, changing your cuff alignment or amount of forward lean can often help with specific problems. But if you don't have fit issues, don't mess with it.
 
thanks great advice, I guess your pretty much the most qualified person on NS to answer this question since you are a boot fitter.

+k thanks alot man
 
amen

cuff alignment will adjust the direction of your legs when the boot is flat. its hard to explain.

it basically adjusts for those who are knock kneed and bow legged.

when i got new boots, when i put them on and stood so the sole was flat against the ground, my legs were forced out, like i was box legged, and i had to roll the boot onto the side to straight my legs out. i adjusted it so now when its flat, it feels just right.

canting is when you actually grind down the sole of your boot to adjust for leg problems. its not really done anymore, maybe with racers but not everyday skiers

forward lean is self explanatory
 
canting is done a lot more then cuff alignment. Cuff alignment is the biggest waste of time of a boot. For the odd person does it work, sure.. but for the odd person the ski walk mode also worked. Essentially if the boot works, bring it in and have it looked at im sure it could work better. A lot of the things people talk about being for racers are totally wrong. Most racers have a very basic set up because they are strong enough to fix anything and by putting them into "correct positions" actually hinders there ability to ski.

For park as a GENERAL rule, you want your fore aft alignment to be as up right as possible and you want to have your cant looked at so that your skis are sitting flat on the snow.
 
So untrue, look at most high level FIS/WJR racers, MANY of them have cants. Cants allow a person that is knock-kneed or bowlegged to have a ski that runs flat on the snow giving them the quickest edge to edge control. Without cants that person would always have constant pressure on either the outside or inside edges.
 
I'm sure there's a racer out there who has very little done to his/her boot, but they would be an exception. So many professional racers have at least lifter kits on their soles, and a lot have their soles planed. They're trying to squeeze out every possible millisecond to make their boots (and skis) more efficient and faster than the other guy. These concepts will be on more and more boots in the coming years because they work and work very well. The Salomon Shogun and Ghost boots are perfect examples of this.
 
correction: every racer worth two shits has at least a few hours of shop time behind their boots. planed soles with lifters are done not only for canting purposes (soles can be planed at a specific angle) but also to reach the maximum standheight (used to be 55mm over the topsheet) for more leverage and less chance of booting out. if you are not a racer (or fucking loaded) don't bother, you won't notice a thing. also, if you are a decent skier, you will make whatever you have work.
 
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