I have not tried zip fit liners. I’ll check them out! I’ve been seeing your tethers out in the wild and in the shops! Great product. I’ll try to do a video on it one of these ski days. Last year I dropped my phone off the lift at Silverton. Fortunately I was able to locate it lawn darted 2 feet deep in the snow using my Garmin watch.
I have often said that most skiers who are having performance problems with their boots are buying ski boots that are too large because they want complete comfort the first time they put their foot into a boot in the shop. But I have to balance that against the fact that boot fitting is a long and incremental process in which you can spend a lot of money to get the most performance out of a boot that is not shaped in any way like your foot. You have a great point especially with regard to beginning skiers. And you *can* add things to take up volume like shims and padding in various parts of the boot. Sometimes, customers with a high volume, block shaped foot are not going to be served by an expensive iterative process of trial and error when all they want is to go skiing and not be tortured. Sizing up is considered a mortal sin among boot fitters. But I've seen too many skiers who for a variety of reasons are turned off to the sport simply because it is painful and painfully expensive. Another thing about the industry that has always vexed me is that boots are too stiff for most recreational skiers. The boot fitting profession will never agree with me on this but I have seen too many people struggle to learn to ski because they do not have the strength to flex their boots enough to make them work as designed. As a decades long telemarker who came up in leather boots, I have the same problem. I'm a large male specimen of the species but I like a soft forward flex when I telemark so I can flex my ankles and ski from the middle of the ski rather than lean heavily on my cuffs and ski only the front half of the ski. I think people can learn to ski more quickly and have more fun if they are in boots that don't crush their feet and also boots that will allow them to flex their ankles without putting all their weight on their shins. They can develop a much more sensitive feeling for the snow and terrain if they can feel the resistance vary as their ankles flex and extend and that is simply not possible in a boot that is for all practical purposes, a cast. 99% of skiers are not racers and will not benefit from the kind of stiffness that high performance skiers need to get the absolute most out of their gear at the highest speeds. Good on ye, mate!
@@HANGTIMEgear I have not tried zip fit liners. I’ll check them out! I’ve been seeing your tethers out in the wild and in the shops! Great product. I’ll try to do a video on it one of these ski days. Can you send me a couple? Last year I dropped my phone off the lift at Silverton. Fortunately I was able to locate it lawn darted 2 feet deep in the snow using my Garmin watch.
I have not tried zip fit liners. I’ll check them out! I’ve been seeing your tethers out in the wild and in the shops! Great product. I’ll try to do a video on it one of these ski days. Last year I dropped my phone off the lift at Silverton. Fortunately I was able to locate it lawn darted 2 feet deep in the snow using my Garmin watch.
I have often said that most skiers who are having performance problems with their boots are buying ski boots that are too large because they want complete comfort the first time they put their foot into a boot in the shop. But I have to balance that against the fact that boot fitting is a long and incremental process in which you can spend a lot of money to get the most performance out of a boot that is not shaped in any way like your foot. You have a great point especially with regard to beginning skiers. And you *can* add things to take up volume like shims and padding in various parts of the boot. Sometimes, customers with a high volume, block shaped foot are not going to be served by an expensive iterative process of trial and error when all they want is to go skiing and not be tortured. Sizing up is considered a mortal sin among boot fitters. But I've seen too many skiers who for a variety of reasons are turned off to the sport simply because it is painful and painfully expensive.
Another thing about the industry that has always vexed me is that boots are too stiff for most recreational skiers. The boot fitting profession will never agree with me on this but I have seen too many people struggle to learn to ski because they do not have the strength to flex their boots enough to make them work as designed. As a decades long telemarker who came up in leather boots, I have the same problem. I'm a large male specimen of the species but I like a soft forward flex when I telemark so I can flex my ankles and ski from the middle of the ski rather than lean heavily on my cuffs and ski only the front half of the ski. I think people can learn to ski more quickly and have more fun if they are in boots that don't crush their feet and also boots that will allow them to flex their ankles without putting all their weight on their shins. They can develop a much more sensitive feeling for the snow and terrain if they can feel the resistance vary as their ankles flex and extend and that is simply not possible in a boot that is for all practical purposes, a cast. 99% of skiers are not racers and will not benefit from the kind of stiffness that high performance skiers need to get the absolute most out of their gear at the highest speeds. Good on ye, mate!
Yo dude, digging your videos. Have you tried the ZipFit liners? And more, have you tried them with the TX Pros?
@@HANGTIMEgear I have not tried zip fit liners. I’ll check them out! I’ve been seeing your tethers out in the wild and in the shops! Great product. I’ll try to do a video on it one of these ski days. Can you send me a couple? Last year I dropped my phone off the lift at Silverton. Fortunately I was able to locate it lawn darted 2 feet deep in the snow using my Garmin watch.