Knitjenious
Angel Diva
You all, I am so excited. Yesterday, I took the plunge and bought ski boots. (PLUS-- something that anyone who has been at home with kid(s) for the last year due to pandemic will understand-- I got to take the 1-hour drive to the ski shop ALONE! Gloriously alone. LOL)
Thanks to all of you awesome ladies, I was able to realize my old rental boots were WAY too big. (27.5s that I insisted on because of foot pain due to a wide spot.) Because of you, I went to a shop with actual boot fitters. Because of you, I was able to very accurately describe my current ski level and my goals. And because of you, I worked for 1.5 hours with the fitter on tweaking the fit to get it right (including bumping out the shell on that pesky wide spot!) New size 25.5.
I skied on them yesterday afternoon and was BLOWN AWAY at the difference it made. All the things I have been working on were so much easier! Staying fully parallel on blue turns, picking up a little more speed, using my edges, absorbing and moving with little bumps. OMG. My husband the skier was like, "wow, you looked really good out there today!" I have known what to do and been trying to do it all season, but couldn't until now!
Finally, because of you all, I was also able to read and learn that the amount of thigh soreness I was having in the new boots wasn't just my out-of-shape legs using different muscles, and I adjusted the cuff profile to allow me a more neutral stance (which I wasn't getting even while standing, though I am sure I also need to keep working on "getting out of the backseat.") And I won't be afraid to go back in to the fitter to tweak them further if needed.
My skiing advanced so much in one day. I am going to get so much joy out of these boots. Thanks for being awesome ski divas!
Thanks to all of you awesome ladies, I was able to realize my old rental boots were WAY too big. (27.5s that I insisted on because of foot pain due to a wide spot.) Because of you, I went to a shop with actual boot fitters. Because of you, I was able to very accurately describe my current ski level and my goals. And because of you, I worked for 1.5 hours with the fitter on tweaking the fit to get it right (including bumping out the shell on that pesky wide spot!) New size 25.5.
I skied on them yesterday afternoon and was BLOWN AWAY at the difference it made. All the things I have been working on were so much easier! Staying fully parallel on blue turns, picking up a little more speed, using my edges, absorbing and moving with little bumps. OMG. My husband the skier was like, "wow, you looked really good out there today!" I have known what to do and been trying to do it all season, but couldn't until now!
Finally, because of you all, I was also able to read and learn that the amount of thigh soreness I was having in the new boots wasn't just my out-of-shape legs using different muscles, and I adjusted the cuff profile to allow me a more neutral stance (which I wasn't getting even while standing, though I am sure I also need to keep working on "getting out of the backseat.") And I won't be afraid to go back in to the fitter to tweak them further if needed.
My skiing advanced so much in one day. I am going to get so much joy out of these boots. Thanks for being awesome ski divas!