Ski Boots

Your feet will love you!

Advantages: You can wear them all day without crippling yourself
Disadvantages: Not for 'high end technical' stuff.

Rossignol soft ski boots are possibly the best skiing product for recreational skiers' since someone first strapped bits of wood to their feet. Soft boots are quite different from the 'normal' boots in that rather than a solid outer shell which holds your ankle and leg rigidly in place they are like tough padded lace up boots with some solid casing in strategic places. This has good points and bad points depending on your skiing style but for most ...
...I have been skiing for 15 years but I'm too lazy to do anything too exciting and I've not pushed myself beyond a pretty good intermediate - therefore I don't need highly technical equipment. I ski for about 2 or 3 weeks a year if I'm lucky and I'm probably exactly the target market for these boots. (You can get different grades of 'soft' boot to suit different skiing abilities - mine are Soft Light 2's). This review is on that basis. They are the ...

Gurtie 18.09.2003 · Read full review
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Review of Rossignol Soft Light Boots

No more rentals for me.

Advantages: Good quality boot
Disadvantages: Take a while to break in

After years and years of renting boots I thought it was about time that I finally shelled out for my own pair of ski boots. Since I’ve been going every winter for the last few years I figured that I would make most of my money back within 4 to 5 years. I went down to my local ski shop and before long had paid about £180 for my new boots. They retail for more like £220 but fortunately for me they happened to be on sale! The boots have what is called ...
...when you have the boots fitted, the inner liner is custom shaped to your foot using a special machine that heats the liner. I felt like a bit of a ninny sitting their in the shop with my feet in a machine shaped liked a foot spa, but it’s good to know that the boots will be a very snug fit to my feet. As for the hard outer part to the boot, this is very adjustable. There are four buckles in common with the design of many modern ski boots. In addition ...

alexpreston 16.02.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Salomon X-Wave 9

Ski-ing for beginners

Advantages: fantastic support and comfort
Disadvantages: Hard to find store with type of boot in stock

Ski-ing itself was a dramatic sport to learn however the comfort these boots provided left me no aches and pains. The comfort and fit is excellant and range in this brand is superb. Salamon is certainly one of the top leading brands which is both reasonable and user friendly. The boots are highly durable and slip onto your feet like a glove unlike other brands which are very difficult to fit. The range of colours and style do vary depending on the ...

chatterbox123 10.02.2004 · Read full review
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