A skier tests newly fitted boots at Sun Peaks, working through technique drills on bumps and steep runs. He rides a 170 cm Völkl Race Tiger and details how the boots improve lateral movement and upper/lower body separation, though the wide toe box required risers and gloves.
So something different, I decided to do some commentary over the top of some footage from my last ski trip to Canada. So hopefully you enjoy this. Yeah, so these last few days I actually got some new ski boots fitted and wanted to get some footage of what it looked like. 'cause it felt really, really good. So this is me just skiing down really cool mellow pitch bumps at Sun Peaks and then into some bigger bumps under the chair, elevation chair, getting some fun air. I was just playing around with different lines and not only absorbing— whoop, until that point. Good to show that you fall sometimes. My tips actually got stuck, the two little metal tips I'm showing there, got kind of crossed in each other and caused me to get a bit panicked before. But yeah, I was just playing with, uh, different absorbing, um, and then also taking air off like this and skipping some troughs just to vary up, uh, what you do in the bump. It's really good for your reactions and keeping it fun, really enjoying the snow. It's amazing this day. This is actually my last run of the whole trip. I've done a run called In Tatters. It's actually a double black. Doesn't look that steep here, but it is pretty darn steep and has all these kind of roads like just here where the logging truck goes across. So you're kind of really hopping around and launching off stuff, and it's quite good because I'm just on my slalom ski, 170 Völkl Race Tiger, in some, you know, fairly decent powder. So it's good for your balance to take a narrow ski out like that and ski down some choppy soft powder. This is probably the second day, I think, on my new boots. Just making some short turns down a run called Sting, which is a black run. Again, just playing with how the boots kind of set me up and just allowed me to move laterally and transition really well. And I'm just really happy with, I guess, separation between my upper and lower body in these turns. This particular run, blue, fairly decent blue run called Blazer at Sun Peaks, opened it up a little bit more, tipping it over, and made me realize I need to get some risers put on these boots because they're a little wider across the toe box. So like on this turn here, you can see I kind of boot out and the outside ski slides away from me. I was like -20 and I had boot gloves on, so that didn't help either. That kind of made the boots fatter and pushed me off the edge a bit more. The same run, Blazer, just making some short turns. Again, I'm really kind of pleased with what these boots, how they've set me up, because there'd be a few times where I'd feel that I'd downstem from my old boots, but these ones seem to make me just stand more in the middle and stay in the middle of the ski more easily and transition better. Quite happy with that. And then here's some more boring looking turns, but I think it just— I just wanted to show that, you know, I'm always working at my skiing, you know, at different speeds and different levels. Just was focusing on feelings of my hips here laterally, fore and aft, just some opening and closing, and then just again feeling the edge and how much pressure and kind of, I guess, skid was going on through the turn, just to try and make it really smooth and even. And these are some turns from Salden actually in October on a friend's ski. And yeah, so hope you enjoyed the commentary over the top of this. And yeah, stay tuned for the next video. See ya! So stoked to be skiing with Gellie again. So stoked to be here with you, Joey. Here we go.
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