Super helpful! As a relatively new skier, I've always wondered why ski boots are so painful for me. Turns out I have a last of 101mm with a 255mm length. I need the high volumes boots and I've been using regular ones all this time.
How to buy a ski boot online? That is, how can I determinie which boot will work for my foot without trying the boot on? Is that possible? Will a boot fitter at a ski shop resent someone coming in to size a boot that plans to buy the boot online? Even if you intend to come back to that same fitter to have the boot customized to the buyer?
Thanks for the info, still sounds like a complex process to fit ski boots. Any new technology coming down the pipeline that might make ski boot fitting a lot easier in the future?
bought some brand new boots a couple days ago. got my foot scanned and had a custom foot bed created. went from high volume to low volume and down 3 sizes. didnt realize how precisely tight the boots needed to be until i had them professionally done!
I'm looking at the Tecnica Mach1 130 HV or the Atomic Hawx Magna 130. My foot measured heel to toe as 11 1/16" (Mondo 29) and 110mm across the widest point. From what I've read I would pick a Mondo 28.5 boot size with HV for the width. Any thoughts?
Thxs for the info I learned a lot about my feet. My question is does the boot shaft have a LV,MV, or HV measurement like the foot wide / last does or are they all the same circumference?
You can if you wish to. Theres the rice-in-a-sock method to heat up the liners. Much safer than putting them in an oven. I've seen some people ruin their liners this way.
What does it mean to say that the ski boot fits a full size smaller than your street shoe, when the sizing scales for street shoes and ski boots are completely different?
Regardless of how you look at it, ski boots will fit smaller than street shoes. Although one's foot is measured with a different scale, if you directly convert mondo to US or EU shoe sizing, the boot sizing will be a size smaller than your usual street size. Many new skiers are used to having lots of extra space in their street wear, when that extra space is not required in ski boots.
Hi i am strong intermediate skier but my boots im using is since i started as begnner. And had problems with my boots like after noon time it feel strange in my feet and seems like very loose. How will i know the flex number?
You did not cover the instep component of this equation adequately so I had to THUMBS DOWN this video. My foot is 25.5cm & 95mm wide BUT I have a 28cm instep (That is NOT a typo). A boot fitters I visited on Friday said that I have a "high volume" foot so would need to look for a high volume boot. I am looking for a race boot and am around a 20 handicap racer having been skiing for 59 years.
Why do you do this video like you're in a rush? Why are you not willing to take the time to explain all the elements that are involved in determining size of a ski boot? You end up with a 25.5 MV boot and I have no idea why MV meets your need and not LV or HV. The 25.5 is straight forward enough. And while we're at it, the whole damned industry is sloppy, lazy and incompetent about boot fitting. I don't mean the boot fitters that work in the stores and do a first rate job. I mean people in the industry who talk about it and publish information. You say Mondopoint is a translation of cm yet in all of the published work I find I cannot find, even when explicitly looking for it, a chart showing Mondopoint to cm or cm to Mondopoint. Why is that?
You're trying to translate a measurement to what the measurement is. It's like asking to translate KG to KG. You can convert/ translate mondo (cm) to US or EU shoe sizing. Mondo is a different way of measuring your foot. All volumes, or lasts are based on the 26.5 size, and go up or down 2mm (as stated on the chart in the video) when you change sizes. So with my foot measuring approximately 98mm wide at 25.5, take 26.5 MV (100mm last), go down one size to 25.5 and down 2mm for the last, which gives me a MV 25.5.
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Super helpful! As a relatively new skier, I've always wondered why ski boots are so painful for me. Turns out I have a last of 101mm with a 255mm length. I need the high volumes boots and I've been using regular ones all this time.
I recently had a chance to meet with him locally and we had a nice chat. Solid dude. Liked, commented and subscribed! :)
Great explanation for those potentially buying online. Cheers 👍🏻
thanks for the great explanations.
How to buy a ski boot online? That is, how can I determinie which boot will work for my foot without trying the boot on? Is that possible? Will a boot fitter at a ski shop resent someone coming in to size a boot that plans to buy the boot online? Even if you intend to come back to that same fitter to have the boot customized to the buyer?
Thanks for the info, still sounds like a complex process to fit ski boots. Any new technology coming down the pipeline that might make ski boot fitting a lot easier in the future?
bought some brand new boots a couple days ago. got my foot scanned and had a custom foot bed created. went from high volume to low volume and down 3 sizes. didnt realize how precisely tight the boots needed to be until i had them professionally done!
I just measured mine and I was right at 26.0/96. So 25.5 MV sounds like a good starting place.
I'd guess you normally wear a size 9 shoe (US)?
If you have a high instep you will NEVER be comfortable in a 25.5
I'm looking at the Tecnica Mach1 130 HV or the Atomic Hawx Magna 130. My foot measured heel to toe as 11 1/16" (Mondo 29) and 110mm across the widest point. From what I've read I would pick a Mondo 28.5 boot size with HV for the width. Any thoughts?
Thxs for the info I learned a lot about my feet. My question is does the boot shaft have a LV,MV, or HV measurement like the foot wide / last does or are they all the same circumference?
The shaft of the boots does change with volume, but there is no measurement like there are with boots lasts.
great vid! 1 question - if you do buy your ski boots online vs in shop, would you recommend heat molding them yourself at home?
You can if you wish to. Theres the rice-in-a-sock method to heat up the liners. Much safer than putting them in an oven. I've seen some people ruin their liners this way.
Very useful! :)
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Very good video... nice
What does it mean to say that the ski boot fits a full size smaller than your street shoe, when the sizing scales for street shoes and ski boots are completely different?
Regardless of how you look at it, ski boots will fit smaller than street shoes. Although one's foot is measured with a different scale, if you directly convert mondo to US or EU shoe sizing, the boot sizing will be a size smaller than your usual street size. Many new skiers are used to having lots of extra space in their street wear, when that extra space is not required in ski boots.
Hi i am strong intermediate skier but my boots im using is since i started as begnner. And had problems with my boots like after noon time it feel strange in my feet and seems like very loose.
How will i know the flex number?
The flex is usually indicated in the name if the boots. If not, just google to find the specs.
According to this I need to go down 5 sizes for ski boots? How does that make sense
Just pay through the roof for a big ass boot and find out
You did not cover the instep component of this equation adequately so I had to THUMBS DOWN this video. My foot is 25.5cm & 95mm wide BUT I have a 28cm instep (That is NOT a typo). A boot fitters I visited on Friday said that I have a "high volume" foot so would need to look for a high volume boot. I am looking for a race boot and am around a 20 handicap racer having been skiing for 59 years.
Why do you do this video like you're in a rush? Why are you not willing to take the time to explain all the elements that are involved in determining size of a ski boot? You end up with a 25.5 MV boot and I have no idea why MV meets your need and not LV or HV. The 25.5 is straight forward enough.
And while we're at it, the whole damned industry is sloppy, lazy and incompetent about boot fitting. I don't mean the boot fitters that work in the stores and do a first rate job. I mean people in the industry who talk about it and publish information. You say Mondopoint is a translation of cm yet in all of the published work I find I cannot find, even when explicitly looking for it, a chart showing Mondopoint to cm or cm to Mondopoint. Why is that?
You're trying to translate a measurement to what the measurement is. It's like asking to translate KG to KG. You can convert/ translate mondo (cm) to US or EU shoe sizing. Mondo is a different way of measuring your foot.
All volumes, or lasts are based on the 26.5 size, and go up or down 2mm (as stated on the chart in the video) when you change sizes. So with my foot measuring approximately 98mm wide at 25.5, take 26.5 MV (100mm last), go down one size to 25.5 and down 2mm for the last, which gives me a MV 25.5.
I recently had a chance to meet with him locally and we had a nice chat. Solid dude. Liked, commented and subscribed! :)