realskiers

He looked at my Speedmachine 14 boot boards and showed me that the heel is lower than the toe area, a typical setup by Nordica for this boot. At his shop, which does sell Nordica, they typically modify the boot by adding material under the rear of the board during the fitting process. He then modified the boot board to raise the heel and asked me to ski with it for a few days to see what changes it made.

LP, how did Phil show you that the heel was lower than the toe? I've spent a lot of time working on a lot of boots and I am not familiar with a single boot that comes toe-high. Usually, even after significant internal and external modification the toe is still lower than the heel. My setup, which you have seen, is very extreme, and even that nets to a positive zeppa at the boot board. Unless he was showing you the net by using a digital level inside the boot, I wouldn't trust the assessment. In many cases the measurement of the boot board outside of the boot is different from the measurement once it is placed back into the boot.