How to Become a Ski Bootfitter
If you are looking to spend a season or two working around ski resorts, or if you are seriously considering a career in the ski industry there is no better way to make yourself a sought after employee than to learn the skills necessary to be a bootfitter.
Custom Foot Beds for Ski Boots
By Mike Doyle What are custom foot beds?: Ski boot foot beds are inserts (orthotics) molded to bring the load bearing parts of the foot in sync with the gravitational force of the skeletal system. This is often compared to how the foundation (feet) of a house carries the weight of the house through the studs (bones) in the walls.
How to Become a Ski Bootfitter
If you are looking to spend a season or two working around ski resorts, or if you are seriously considering a career in the ski industry there is no better way to make yourself a sought after employee than to learn the skills necessary to be a bootfitter.
Making the Foot Impression
Both telemark and AT boots are just as accommodating to custom footbeds as downhill boots. If you don’t get fitted for footbeds when you purchase telemark or AT boots I recommend that you take your boots to a shop that sells, custom fits, installs footbeds and will later correct and tweak them to your comfort and satisfaction.
ZAPZ – Microwavable, Customable Insoles Make Me Feel Like I’m Walking on a Cloud!
I have always wanted orthotics.I know I’ve got wonky feet.But whose got all of that extra cash lying around for custom insoles and time for all those appointments and fittings? Because it was only a desire and not a need, I never got them.
How to Become a Ski Bootfitter
If you are looking to spend a season or two working around ski resorts, or if you are seriously considering a career in the ski industry there is no better way to make yourself a sought after employee than to learn the skills necessary to be a bootfitter.
Ask Dr. Oz: 99 Quick Health Secrets for Men
When someone sneezes, then touches a doorknob, how long before the germs disappear? In general, the time viruses live outside the body varies with the type of germ and whatever surface they’re sitting on. For the common cold, you can figure anything from four to twenty-four hours. Wash your hands.
ON SLOPES, IT’S ALL SYSTEMS SNOW
THE temperatures have been cold and the snow has been falling, which pretty much sums up the situation in New York this year as ski resorts around the state have been primed for the holiday season. “The conditions are hard to beat right now,” said Rhonda Thuman, marketing director for Ski Windham in the Catskill Mountains.
