Oh really?

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well alright that didnt work, but in the description it said this is on lake washington, posted by boeski, details anyone?
 

the way we ski has changed so much over the last 20 years, that boot has not changed at all.

The amount of forward lean it has is ridiculous, in the 80's through mid 90's that was helpfull because we had to drive the knee to turn the skis, with shaped skis now, you don't do that and a more upright stance is better, especially for freeride and park skiing. Alot of my customers as well as some of my friends who ski in the boot find the forward lean to be way too much, with some of them it even caused chronic pain in their calfs and achilies.

Instead of forward lean what we need now is lateral stability. Something that full tilts / flexions, don't have enough of. Compare them to any top freeride boot interms of lateral stiffness and they don't even regester on the charts. This is not to important in park skiing however.

Another problem is the cables instead of buckles. Cables do a very poor job of spreading the preasure evenly across the foot and instead you get tight spots on the top of the instep (which cuts off circulation to the fore foot and toes) as well as the shin.

The plastic they use is a joke, it is so soft that the heel and toe lugs on the boot (the part the binding interacts with) just wears away quite rapidly. Combine this with the fact that the lugs are effectively replaceable and you get a short life time out of the boot.

Don't get me wrong the three piece design is great and there is a solid concept behind it, but it needs to be updated and improved for 21'st century skiing. If you want to try a three piece boot try out one of the krypton series, those are some really good boots if they work with your feet.

that was copy and pasted from a pm I sent on the topic a few weeks ago.
 
they have not changed the boots at all. you grab a full tilt shell from the 09.10 season and a flexion shell from 20 years ago they will be the exact same thing other then color.
The 'changes' they say they have done just appear to be in the liner, not the shell.
 
anyone want to volunteer their parents backyard to build a new one, and host a party, and feed us all? There has to be someone on NS with a house on the lake. Rich kids ski right?
 
He likes other things too,
currently the top of the list includes:physics, mnt biking, watching ski movies, watching real skimovies, cryptology, and reading good books.
also some quick research indicates that blowing shit up seems to be pretty popular right now. Boom!
 
speaking of physics, im building a drop ramp right now, everyones welcome to come use it once its finished. Probably august but I'll keep posted
 
Apparently my mom had her worst fall ever skiing while she was pregnant with me. Thanks mom.

I guess that explains why I'm semi-retarded.
 
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