Ski boots vs Ski

[Flwrs]

What‘s more important, having a perfect fitting ski boot or a good ski?

And how does a ski boot actually impact your skiing and spinning?

Is it really important to have a perfectly fitting ski boot or is it just placebo?

Can you just spin as well in a bigger softer ski boot as in a tight stiff boot?

 

[KungKalmar]

boots

 

[migidimigi]

boot for sure

 

[No-Skill-Phil]

Boots.

Don’t know.

For me, yeah.

Probably.

 

[Zteezegod]

Boots

 

[Yukon_Cornelius]

Big pants

 

[BallClapper]

Best thing to do is choose a boot ski combo that works together. If you have a super stiff ski and a soft boot it will be harder to drive the ski as the boot will give out before any significant power is transferred. Thats part of the reason that top level freeriders ride super stiff race boots with their beef metal skis. [tag=154780]@tomPietrowski[/tag] feel free to correct me on any of that.

 

[Flwrs]

Best thing to do is choose a boot ski combo that works together. If you have a super stiff ski and a soft boot it will be harder to drive the ski as the boot will give out before any significant power is transferred. Thats part of the reason that top level freeriders ride super stiff race boots with their beef metal skis. [tag=154780]@tomPietrowski[/tag] feel free to correct me on any of that.

Yes definitely makes sense

 

[Flwrs]

Right now im in a 140 head raptor WCR, which is a very stiff, responsive boot. Wondering if i should downgrade a lil if i want to ski more park and mostly small/medium sized hits and rails

 

[tomPietrowski]

Best thing to do is choose a boot ski combo that works together. If you have a super stiff ski and a soft boot it will be harder to drive the ski as the boot will give out before any significant power is transferred. Thats part of the reason that top level freeriders ride super stiff race boots with their beef metal skis. [tag=154780]@tomPietrowski[/tag] feel free to correct me on any of that.

Yeah basically this is spot on. So many people forget about matching the boot and ski, they need to work together to get the best from the whole system.

With regards to race boots, many freeride athletes use them as most brands don’t make a “freeride” boot so race boots are their best option. But race boots usually need quite a bit of work to make them suitable for freeride. Keep an eye out for new dedicated freeride boots coming out.

 

[Jit.girl]

Boots cause what’s the point of good skis if you can’t control them