How to keep your feet warm while skiing
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- Hi
This weeks video will be a bit different from what I have been posting in the past. This is sort of a product review but I still put some great skiing in it so if that's what you are after be patient at the start and you will be rewarded.
Boot Covers or Boot Glows as I have seen them branded in the past are great. They are easy to take with you on a trip and even put in your pocket while skiing if not needed.
Only down side is that you cant unbuckle and buckle up your boots all the time because that would mean you would have to take the Boot Cover off.
You can carve pretty well with the Boot Cover but it has some limitations as well. It creates some frictions between the boot and the snow so if there is soft snow you will maybe feel a difference. Carving with very high edge angles causes the Boot Cover to maybe touch the snow and that again will affect your performance but as long as you keep it civil you will be ok. I have even seen WC racers practice with these.
The heated socks are also great. I have been using all sorts of heaters in my boots and the socks are by far best for my use. The heaters that are installed in the foot bead had too many down sides. Now I can use my favorite foot bed. With the heating elements that were built into the foot beds I had a lot of problems. For instance I could feel the flat cable underneath the foot bed and since I first put on my liner and then slide it into the outside shell the flat cable was always getting tangled up and damaged. And the battery packs at the back of the boots were hard to reach and adjust.
That's all folks. Enjoy the video and please subscribe, give me thumbs up if you think its any good and please leave a comment.
reg
Tom
Thank you for your time, sir !
Welcome!
Those neoprene boot covers make a massive difference. If you put them on while still inside with warm shells I find them better than electric.
Thanks for watching. Yes, I also use them without the electric socks sometimes. They really make a huge difference. They don't look fancy or cost a lot of money so it's big value for money. And keeping your feet warm has no price.
Good humor...made me smile :-)
Thanks man for such cool lifehuck!
I got those boot gloves and man they made a big difference!
Thanks for watching. Yes, great to hear you are using boot gloves and that they work for you. I could not live without them when its cold and over here in Finland it can get very cold.
fantastic.
Thank you! Cheers!
Wow I don’t ski 🎿 I snowboard so my boots are different, but my toes will occasionally still get cold 🥶 I’m really interested in neoprene toe covers for my socks or I’ve been debating on buying those electric socks!
I can warmly recommend them. For snowboarding they would work even better as you dont have to unbuckle and buckle up all the time. I have also used the socks while sailing. Just on my way to Levi and sitting at the gate remembering I forgot the neopren covers.....
grat video, what the name of eletric socks?
Thanks, Lenz :)
Tom, I see that your boot liners are the lace up type. Why do you put the liner on your foot first rather than leaving it in the shell and putting your feet in both the liner and shell simultaneously?
@@Triggerboy62 Why do you use a Booster Strap instead of a power strap?
Racing boots are designed like this.
@@gogglebro9421 I wanted to test it. I now have one pair with a BS and one with a PS.
@@Triggerboy62 Let me know if you notice a difference between using the BS vs the PS. Changing subjects, my Intuition boot liners came with laces. I noticed that my feet will slide forward when my weight gets thrown back and my big toes sometimes hit the front of the boots. It occurred to me that my feet might be sliding in the liners and jamming into the front of the liners, not the front of the shells, so I just starting using the laces as an experiment. Note, I was told that the laces wouldn't hold my feet in place, but the laces do seem to help so far. Still, I don't have enough experience with lacing yet to draw any conclusions. The real test will be in the bumps.
@@gogglebro9421 the laces will help for sure. What boots are you in?