Boot Fitting and Heat-Molding Liners — Getting It Right

If there is one piece of gear worth obsessing over, it is your boots. Boots are your only direct connection to the board, and a bad fit ruins a trip faster than anything else. Getting the fit right, and molding the liners, makes a huge difference for comfort and control.

What a Good Fit Feels Like

• Snug, not painful. Your foot should feel held all around with no sloppy gaps.
• Toes just brushing the end. Standing upright, your toes lightly touch the front. When you flex into a riding stance, they pull back slightly.
• Locked heel. Your heel should not lift when you bend your knees. Heel lift means lost control and blisters.
• Even pressure. No sharp pinch points anywhere.

Heat-Molding the Liners

Many modern boots have heat-moldable liners that shape to your feet. A shop does this with a special oven, but the idea is simple.

1. Warm the liners to soften the foam, usually in a dedicated boot oven.
2. Put on your riding socks and any footbeds you will use.
3. Slip the warm boots on and stand in your riding stance.
4. Let them cool on your feet for around fifteen minutes so the foam sets to your shape.

A Few Fit Tips

Always try boots on with proper thin snowboard socks, never thick cotton ones. Test them late in the day when feet are slightly swollen. And remember that liners pack out a little with use, so a fresh boot should feel quite snug.

With boots dialed in, get your mountain dialed in too. Open Bonvo and explore your resort in 3D so your first comfortable laps go exactly where you want them.