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Alpina Elite Skating Ski Boots - About

Alpina Elite Skating Ski Boots – About: This is our top-of-the-line, world class, elite-level skate boot. It’s been a work of art in progress. We have tons of new things to show you. First and foremost, there’s a three-dimensional titanium carbon-stabilizing cuff. You can see it’s also sitting in a position that it’s very, very easy flexing, number one. It’s asymmetrical, number two. It’s very, very stable and light, number three: all the proponents that all our testers and all our world-class skiers wanted. One of the key elements was to have a boot that really flexed very easily forward and not impede any of the movement in skating. Yet they didn’t want to give up any torsional stability whatsoever. It’s OK that a skate boot has some flex in the front. That’s very, very important, yet we don’t want to compromise any of the lateral stability.

Alpina Elite Skating Ski Boots - Features

Alpina Elite Skating Ski Boots – Features: It has a seamless, stretchy, waterproof upper, keeping the elements out. Very important. We learned this through testing as well. If water seeps into a boot, it makes it heavy. We want this to be light and perform very well over any kind of distance. It does have internally a totally different thought process. We went to a flat lacing. As you can see, the lacing pattern is also in the stitching pattern. It’s different in the front to envelope the foot, hold it more in place, not give any chance of movement at all. We’ve used materials that have been very well known to work in cycling and in soccer. We’re using cuts on the inside, so it’s not a big tall boot internally. It’s nice and low, also shaped very much anatomically correct according to your foot. As you can see, a very nice, easy flexing movement of the cuff itself. Looking at the back of the boot, you can see the asymmetrical feature. You can also see the fact that it’s been shaped very much to accommodate the shape of the foot. You can see that the boot is a little bit taller to the inside to allow much quicker power release on and off the edges of skating skis. This is very quick. They want the motion to be fast. So as they’re flexing forward, they want that to be easy, and they also want the boot to be quick simultaneously. So the carbon titanium cuff a la stabilizer allows us to do that very nicely.

Alpina Elite Skating Ski Boots - First Thoughts

Alpina Elite Skating Ski Boots - First Thoughts: I use this boot here for skating. The first thing that came to mind when I put it on and started skiing in it was that it fits like a second skin, yet it’s not tight. I’m not sure how that was accomplished, but that’s exactly what I wanted. I look down, and it just looks like my foot. Yet the circulation and all the comfort is right there for me. When I move my foot a millimeter, the boot responds. That was the first time I ever had a boot like that. The cuff has gotten stiffer, so it’s the stiffest cuff I’ve ever used. You can see that they built it up a little wider right here. So when you come in laterally like this skating, it just mimics all your movement. All your power goes into the transfer of weight and power to the next ski. It’s built on the NNN sole, which I have always preferred. I think that it’s a superior system, as opposed to the Salomon system. It’s not gimmicky. It’s there, and it works. That’s probably the best way to describe this boot. It just works.