These are not the same ski boots on retail.

The best made? The outer plastic is the same. The inner boot/

You can’t buy it.

If a figure skater had a boot that does not fit they lose.

The average skier of 50 day’s does nor know the difference and they are experts?

Do you honestly think that Bode Miller uses his ski boots after a season.

They probably made him six pair.

It’s called Ice skating with a leather last foot bed.

Often this is called over buckling of the ski boot to make up room. Typically ski boots are fit for the weekend skier in a warm ski shop.

Ski boots are not really meant to feel good in the ski shop. The ski shop and the boots are at 70 degrees and when you go skiing it’s not 70 degrees and this is part of the problem with ski boot fitting.

Stick those new ski boots in the snow for a half hour before you buy them and then try them on again, This will not only give you a feel of real time fitting but will show the characteristics of the ski boot on a cold day.

The ski boot should be snug like a figure skates with the right arch support called curvature of the foot bed.

Mark Rolfes has seen too many oversize boots in his time. This is when the correct foot bed can correct your ski boot investment.

What skiers forget this that their best running shoes should feel the same.

When a ski boot feels good you don’t have to adjust the buckles all day long.

Boots need to fit reasonably tight and not tight enough to cut of circulation.

Racers know this.

Avid skiers often have boots that feel great at the shop. If the Avid skier skies 30 days or more the boot liner breaks down and the boot becomes larger over time.

Pulling the boot sole liner after a wet day of skiing is not always a good idea. This also depends how wet it feels in the boot. Let them dry next to a air heater. Pulling the last out of the boot is only necessary if the boot is drenched with water.

Specific materials expand when wet and actually get larger when pulled from the boot casting.

Depending on the boot bladder and if it’s water saturation- this is most important that the Boot bladder gets 8 hrs of dry heat to shrink itself back to manufacture size.

The idea is that your ski boots don’t need extra moisture when you go skiing after the second day.

I have known this man for 25 years.

We were all skiers in a place called GMVS, Mark and others were 20 years before their time.

There were no ski technicians. We became the technicians on developing technologies.

We lived with what we had and improvised. 30 years later nothing has changed much… Mistakes and a few idea’s revolutionizes the feel of skiing,, The sole of it to the boot,,

Mark knows the true meaning of the boot.

We were kids in a ski academy and what we did to make ski boots work 24/7 will be something one will never want to go through. No heat guns just hammers and nails.