Message #10222

[jbotti]

Gary, as I remember you are 5 8"? I am 6 3" with very long legs. My anatomy is such that I can use large amounts of forward lean in my boots and it works great. I actually struglle when there is too little. On my Raptors I have an additional 5mm of lean added to the canting strips on the boots. I am not surpprised to hear at your height that you need to dial back the forwrad lean some. You can see skiers on the lift line that are slammed too far forward by their boots. If the boot has one flexed so far forwrad that you can't actually stand upright in theboot then they are too forward. It sounds like this is where you were. My guess is that the new stance will work well for you. Usually BTW, being slammed forward has the opposite effect on skiers in that they fight the feeling of being too far forward and it keeps them in the back seat. Actaully being able to lift your tails on every turn is a great ability, and a clearly forward position.