J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by bandit

xt600 wrote: The main one being that after wearing the boots around the house a bit i have discovered that they are particularly tight on the 'boney bits' sticking out on the insides of my ankles. I'm not sure how to fix this, without cutting a hole in the shell of the boots!

Your choices are perhaps, to either "blow" the shell yourself, or find a boot fitter willing to make the necessary mods. It may be that your foot needs to be lifted/or lowered in the boot to resolve the problem.

If bootfitting was an unneccesary luxury, we'd all buy our kit off e-bay )

RossF wrote:Of course they make more money if they sell more services/items. If a bus company sells more tickets, they make more money..

Do you mind me asking where you have been fitted for these in the past? I had properly fitted footbeds (custom made efforts) and the difference in the boot fit was unreal (Salomon Falcon Race)

Ross, who are you asking here?

xt600, not tried em, plus I'm not sure these are supportive enough for ski boots?

That depends on how much you value your feet. I have Superfeet footbeds in all my shoes, and the Custom moulded Full Kork version in my ski boots. Same goes for my OH, and they cost a wee bit more than £35 )

The simplest, good quality, over the counter footbed is by Superfeet. Trim to fit. Blue or Green depending on your volume needs.

AIUI the Miller strategy was that by deliberately failing to turn up for the bib issue, he got a late start number. This would ensure that he raced later and the bottom of the course would favour the later racers because of the light.
As he is not in the US Team, he has sponsors to please.

Race won by Italian Cristof Innerhofer , ahead of Austrians Klaus Kroll and Michael Walchhofer. Bode Miller came in fourth.

The Italian racer was wearing Bib no 1. Was does that tell us about Bode Miller's strategy, for running late in the race :lol:

Ian Wickham wrote:Looks like Bormio conditions are icy for the race today, should sort the men from the boy's. :wink:

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/12/27/sports/SKI-Mens-World-Cup-Preview.php

It's a shame that the BBC thinks the ski racing season starts in January, and Channel4 had not cancelled their skiing programming :roll: Then we could watch it.

I love the quotes in the IHT article. Reads like a lot of excuses from the US skiers, and some of the Europeans. My fave quote however.....

Naturally, Italian skiers said their home course suited them perfectly.

:lol:

I have skied the Stelvio course, as I stayed in Bormio for a couple of weeks, I skied it daily. It was icy then as well, and there was an adverse cambered section fairly high up.