OleTimeRiverGuide
Diva in Training
Can you divas help me translate your great advice into something relevant for a man?
My DH is a reluctant skier who follows me and my 7yo up the hill. He's a beginner, and gets easily discouraged. I would like to get him some boots but I understand the importance of calling ahead to make sure they have his size in models that make sense for him, so he doesn't get cross-sold in to what they have on hand. He can ski about any green, but it's clear he needs a good boot to control his skis. He's *almost* at parallel turns. He is 50yo. 6'0 and usually 200 lbs - but 219 due to a year of covid lockdown inactivity/eating at home.
He has a tulip shaped foot. Fallen arches. Remarkably narrow in heel, ankle, calf. He probably needs a custom footbed, in a **narrow boot** with the bumps ground out significantly on either side of the metatarsal heads.
From you, I've learned we should find him a boot that fits his heel, ankle, instep and calf perfectly first.
From you, I've learned that with his extremely tulip-shaped foot, it "makes much more sense to punch the shell first, and then mold the liner into the punch" afterward, rather than the typical mold first, stretch/grind afterward order.
Here are some model suggestions from the skidiva forum with similar foot issues. Can you help me translate this in to Men's boot models?
Diva suggestions for female Tulip-shaped feet - aka wide or bunions at metatarsal heads and narrow elsewhere:
(These may be older models - taken from an older thread.)
Last issue: I think he has fallen arches. On the arch-measure machine he has a medium arch. And I think the amateur boot sales guy who measured his foot width - did him a disservice. He measured width at 115, but it's more like 108. Maybe less than 108 if his arch is properly supported. This 108 includes the metatarsal #1 bump. To include the metatarsal #5 you would have to use the calipers pretty diagonally, but then it diagonally measures 111. Mondo 28.5 (I think we ignore the bumps if they are going to get ground out and assume he is less than 108, right?
My DH is a reluctant skier who follows me and my 7yo up the hill. He's a beginner, and gets easily discouraged. I would like to get him some boots but I understand the importance of calling ahead to make sure they have his size in models that make sense for him, so he doesn't get cross-sold in to what they have on hand. He can ski about any green, but it's clear he needs a good boot to control his skis. He's *almost* at parallel turns. He is 50yo. 6'0 and usually 200 lbs - but 219 due to a year of covid lockdown inactivity/eating at home.
He has a tulip shaped foot. Fallen arches. Remarkably narrow in heel, ankle, calf. He probably needs a custom footbed, in a **narrow boot** with the bumps ground out significantly on either side of the metatarsal heads.
From you, I've learned we should find him a boot that fits his heel, ankle, instep and calf perfectly first.
From you, I've learned that with his extremely tulip-shaped foot, it "makes much more sense to punch the shell first, and then mold the liner into the punch" afterward, rather than the typical mold first, stretch/grind afterward order.
Here are some model suggestions from the skidiva forum with similar foot issues. Can you help me translate this in to Men's boot models?
Diva suggestions for female Tulip-shaped feet - aka wide or bunions at metatarsal heads and narrow elsewhere:
(These may be older models - taken from an older thread.)
- Women's Atomic "B" line - w bumps ground out at metatarsal heads
- Women's Technica Attiva line - w bumps ground out at metatarsal heads
- Women's Nordica Speedmachine - w bumps ground out at metatarsal heads
- Women's Lange race boots - w bumps ground out at metatarsal heads
- Women's HEAD Dream boot - w bumps ground out at metatarsal heads
- Women's Rossignol Pure or Elite - w bumps ground out at metatarsal heads
- Avoid the soft Atomic Live Fit boots - too wide overall, in the rest of the foot, too springy to grind out
Last issue: I think he has fallen arches. On the arch-measure machine he has a medium arch. And I think the amateur boot sales guy who measured his foot width - did him a disservice. He measured width at 115, but it's more like 108. Maybe less than 108 if his arch is properly supported. This 108 includes the metatarsal #1 bump. To include the metatarsal #5 you would have to use the calipers pretty diagonally, but then it diagonally measures 111. Mondo 28.5 (I think we ignore the bumps if they are going to get ground out and assume he is less than 108, right?