Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Bootfitting theory

Spent yesterday with the Soze group (Conformable insoles and such) at a bootfitting seminar at PCMR, to learn how terrible my skiing was, and how its the fault of my boots.  So, now I'm just waiting on some tweaks on my boots to make me a pro skier.  Really, they had some cool and interesting ideas, and some really successful skiers are using these techniques to improve their skiing.  I scored some new footbeds with super high arches, but are flexible, so they allow foot and ankle movement, which is key to their theory.  I'll give them a try this week maybe.
While on the hill, I had a chance to take a few runs on the Coreupt Slasher, 112mm underfoot, tip rocker with twin tip at the tail.  It was great for the snow, which was packed powder (Utah style, not east coast style), with a few inches of dust on crust everywhere else.  Because of the standard camber underfoot, or even hyper-camber, the Slasher carved really well, about the same as a 90mm all mountain ski.  Still not an "all mountain" ski, but good enough for Snowbird all mountain during a good year, as this season has proved.  They skied well enough to want a pair, so I'll see what kind of deal I can strike up with Coreupt.  Oh, just one issue, that may or may not be an issue (if that makes sense): Off trail, I hit an ice chunk which stopped my left ski instantly.  Fortunately I was going slower, maybe 25-35mph, so my tumble back onto the groomed run wasn't too painful or scary.  Now, I don't know if a ski with more rise to the tip would have prevented this, but I gotta put it out there to be fair- for a rocker tip ski, its a little on the shallow side.  Other than that, I had a great time on the Coreupt Slasher, and didn't mind or care that it was made in China.

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