Custom built ski boots available across the Alps
No more sore feet thanks to Fischer
A new technology has arrived to solve one of skiing’s longest running and most painful problems; uncomfortable ski boots.
Fischer have gone past moulding footbeds and liners and have addressed one of the critical problems with ski boot design, the hard outer shell. Thanks to a new type of plastic that is heated, moulded around your foot and then cooled Fischer skis have created the world’s first custom moulded consumer ski boot.
The process is simple enough. The footbed is moulded to fit the skier’s foot and then placed inside the boot liner. The shell of the boot is then heated in a special oven for 10-12 minutes at 80 degrees and the foot is placed inside the now hot shell. The skier stands on a platform and adopts a ski stance and the boot is wrapped in cooling pads and then a pressurized cuff that squeezes the boot to fit.
The whole process takes about twenty minutes and the boots cost €499 for the ladies model, €549 for the men’s and the Pro boot retails at €600.
“It offers a perfect fit, wonderful comfort and a very light boot, “ says Michel who runs the Caribou ski shop in Morzine and has his own pair of the boots. “They are great.”
There are only a few shops in France that have the boots and equipment but luckily they are in some of the more popular resorts in the Alps. In the Espace Killy you can find these boots in Mattis Intersport , in the Paradiski they are available from Sport Boutique in Arc 1800, in the Portes du Soleil Caribou Sports in Morzine have them in stock and in the Three Valleys you are spoilt for choice with two shops carrying these new boots Intersport in Meribel Mottaret and Jean Blanc Sports in Courchevel 1850. Finally, you can also have your boots custom built in Chamonix at Sanglard Sports.
We're looking forward to seeing how these boots perform on the hill. It's certainly a big step forward in ski boot comfort.
