Ski boot

Ski boots ( ski boots, ski boots ) are special shoes for skiers. Depending on Skisportart there are ski boots in various designs. Significantly differ here shoes for Nordic skiing types (for example, cross-country skiing ) and alpine skiing.

The ski boot gives the foot stability and ensures safe power transmission to the ski. The ski boot has special seats for the holders of the ski binding.

Alpinsport

Alpine boots are attached to the tip and the heel in the binding. A distinction is made between Alpine shoes molded shoe ( hard boots ) and soft boots (German: hard and soft shell version).

History

Originally ski boots heavy hiking boots and of a very stiff leather. With the invention of the safety binding in the 1960s and 1970s and the concomitant replacement of the cable binding, the ski boot developed with its out of the sole back and forth continued Arretierungsfortsätzen for engagement in the jaws of the bond as an independent design. The sole is smooth according to DIN ISO standard in the toe area to allow a lateral release of the ski binding.

Alpine Touring Ski Boots for ski mountaineering are designed to be lighter and more flexible the shaft to allow for a " comfortable " Rise, and have a molded sole as mountain boots to allow snow in an open area with a rise abgeschnallten ski. In part, this mobility can lock the exit. A removable inner boot has usually a lacing.

After a period of specialization in the 80s and 90s, the designs ski boots and mountaineering boots today are approaching, in the context of the many new or re- arisen winter sports increasingly, both the hard boots and the high alpine shell shoes, as well as the soft boots and moderate hiking boots ( hybrid Boots) at.

Shell shoes, hard boots

Hard boots are the "classic" ski boots. You have called a hard outer boot, shell, and a soft, insulating and cushioning liner. The foot is in the liner; the hard shell is closed with buckles or other closure mechanisms tightly around the liner. The foot can be flexed in a closed shoe only in the ankle. The shoe support this direction of movement by a joint in the shell. Rotation of the foot inward ( pronation ) or outside ( supination ) is only marginally possible. The fixed end of the shoe around the foot ensures the direct power transmission the weight shift and leg movements to the skis and reduces the risk of injury in the ankle.

While the classic alpine ski boot is a front-entry closed with buckles, there were in the 1980s and 90s many models that should provide more comfort as tail beginners. In these models, the entire rear portion of the heel to could be folded and thus the entry and exit easier. These shoes come in part from using only one buckle on the collar. The system has, however, can not prevail and remained a fad these years, so that the shoe buckles is once again dominant. The number of buckles between one and five, depending of contemporary designs.

The shoe upper edge varies with current driving styles. When Hotdogging ( moguls style in strong supine position ) the shell shoes ranged, for example, to almost below the knee. Overall, the risk of injury from the ankle area ( malleolar fracture, ligament tear ) has shifted to the tibia and fibula, as well as knee and patella with this top. Typical are Tibiasfrakturen, fibular fracture, cruciate and collateral ligament tears, and knee injuries do today 40 % of all winter sports injuries of the lower extremities.

Soft Boots

Modern soft boots are on the market and an alternative to the particular mass sport skiers often perceived as uncomfortable hard shell shoes since about 2002. They are just as soft boots completely for riders from a soft, insulating material and have no hard outer shell. This often caused by ill-fitting Hardboots pressure points are avoided and the shoe as a whole is more convenient. The need for recreational skiing is the strength achieved by lacing, similar to hiking boots. They are very similar to the full- leather footwear of the 70s, and are linked to the tradition of Alpine Touring Ski Boots and footwear for the Twintips - freestyle ( Acrobatics ). Are used such shoes also become fashionable again for the telemark, and are also suitable for snowshoeing.

Shutter

Earlier boots were laced. First buckles on leather shoes came on in the 1960s. Today's plastic shells are all closed by buckles. For ski mountaineering shoes of the inner shoe is often laced.

Standardize

Ski boots are just like ski bindings by international standards ( ISO) standardized.

Ski boot sizes indicate, in contrast to the usual shoe size systems, the length in centimeters and are often referred to as MP or Mondo Point. The Mondo point system, defined by the ISO standard 9407, but renames the foot length in millimeters and, actually, the base width. In particular, to other shoe size systems characteristic of the Mondo point system as opposed naming the foot length instead of the length of the last, according to experience not always respected.

Nordic ski sport

Long running shoes are half-high boots made of leather or synthetic fiber. They have a gain in the area of ​​toe in skating footwear part in the area of the bale, which is hooked into the ski binding. The ski is attached only at the toe; the heel remains free.