Full Tilt vs Others
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Negromancer
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Full Tilts, Dalbello, and Roxa use a 3 piece design for their boots so the boot is split into three parts, the shell, cuff and tongue which are then connected together. The main advantage to the three piece design is it produces a very smooth and consistent flex which should match the flex of your ankle more naturally compared to traditional overlap/normal boots. Also you can change the tongue on most 3-Piece boots which allows you to adjust the flex of the boot, stiffer tongue = stiffer boot and vice versa.
However buy what fits you whether it be a traditional overlap boot or a 3-Piece. Go to a good boot fitter and try on what is given to you. Make sure you get custom footbeds made as well. Neither design is superior to the other just choose whichever design works best for your legs and feet.
However buy what fits you whether it be a traditional overlap boot or a 3-Piece. Go to a good boot fitter and try on what is given to you. Make sure you get custom footbeds made as well. Neither design is superior to the other just choose whichever design works best for your legs and feet.
freshiesbrah
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The difference I'd they do fit you if they do, or they don't fit you if they don't.
JibbaTheHutt
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13732522:Negromancer said:
i've always questioned the whole 3 piece "more natural flex" theory, i've skied Dalbello kryptons and i've skied tons of traditional boots can whole heartedly say that i didnt notice the kryptons feeling more natural.
Also peformance wise there is a reason why every top racer in the world uses overlap boots.
Caucasian_Asian
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13732637:JibbaTheHutt said:
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Negromancer
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13732637:JibbaTheHutt said:
Modern overlap boots have refined their flex patterns so much they probably flex just as naturally as the 3-Piece designs. Older overlap boots would bulge and distort around the ankle when flexed into hard which was why the 3-Piece design was originally created.
Heaps of freeski pros use 3-Piece boots so performance is definitely not going to be an issue (unless OP buys something that doesn't fit obviously). Bode Miller was race training in Full Tilts earlier this year.
Unless you're planning on flying down an icy race course at 100kmh+ it doesn't matter whether you use 3-Piece or traditional boot just whichever fits.
haggis_hunter
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13732655:Caucasian_Asian said:
Bodies boots are so far removed from actual Full Tilts they may as well be Head Raptors with an overlap tongue on them. They have custom plates milled the length of the sole using the same pattern from the Bode Raptor that Head custom made for him, in the same way they have a number of custom models for their pro team, They offer them to the factory squad and they have the choice of the Bodie, the Vonn, the Swindall and the Lighety, there all based on BSL and a number of custom milled sole options.
Looking at what's on a racers feet is not the way to establish what to use, more often than not its not even made by that company or even on offer to the public as such. Take Hirschers boots, he doesn't even use the Carbon back bone Redster as he found it too stiff for the current GS skis, he uses the older CS boot top with the Redster bottom.
Same for their skis, most RD skis are altered in ways beyond what most skiers would ever think. Take a close look at some of the RD skis on their feet esp the Super G items and they have small cuts through part of the topsheets to change the flex for that racers preferences.