Custom Boot Service

Jim is a master when it comes to setting you up correctly in ski boots and factors in the bindings and human mechanics. Don’t waste your time, just go straight to Jim. Our entire family of hard core skiers have been seeing Jim for ever and he never disappoints. We always walk out of there ready to attack the hill with more power and no pain. A properly set up boot binding combo will have you skiing way stronger and more efficient. Thanks Jim!!!

Let’s say you ski 30 days a year, and want to keep getting better. And you spend $ 500 a year on ski lessons at vacation resorts, and they help some, but you feel like you’ve mostly plateaued.
The issue might be your gear, and in particular your boots. You may have the flashiest skis, and the orange-​est boots, but if the alignment of them doesn’t match the way your body naturally stands (which is very unlikely btw), then you are going to have issues. Potentially big issues. If you come home from a day of skiing and your quads and/​or calves ache severely but most everything else feels fine, that is a hint.
Spend a couple of hundred with Jim to get yourself analyzed and straightened out, you’ll be amazed. He worked wonders with my boots.

As a skier for 35 years and a physical therapist for 10 years, I cannot say enough about Jim and his experience. If only all boot fitters would consider some simple physics as well as shape of the foot. Expect to learn a little about your own body as well as a good fitting boot that interacts with the snow the way it was intended to.

Jim is as knowledgeable as they come when it comes to not only fitting your ski boot to the anatomy of your foot and leg, but also knows a great deal about the skiers stance and alignment and how it affects the skier in motion.
He offers a full stance analysis where he will discover (to mention a couple things) how much support you get from your foot, and how the way your foot sits affects the alignment of the load from your leg to your foot. Most people aren’t centered on the ski side to side because of a lack of arch support. Jim is a believer in a more vertical boot cuff, or a reduction in the amount of forward lean in a typical boot, and as an experienced skier I can tell you this philosophy has exponentially improved the amount of control and responsiveness I get from my skis. Only if skiers knew how much their fore-​aft balance was affected by the forward lean of their boots (tip: it does NOT make you forward to have forward lean in your boots).
Jim will also want to look at your whole ski system. Looking at things like the amount of ramp there is in the binding system will play into the amount of forward there should be in the boot. As you can tell Jim looks at the skier in the boots as much as the boots.
As you head out to buy boots this fall take them to Jim to confirm the fit you got and see if there are any anatomical issues that are precluding you from skiing your best.
Go see this man — he’s the answer to the question you didn’t even know you had.
Cheers!
Brad Walsh
Professional Ski Instructors of America
Northwest Divisional Staff Member