Hey, everybody, welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network.

I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, the founder of Blister, and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over at blisterreview.com.

So how do elite racers, like Marcel, Hersersch, Michaela Schifrin, Bode Miller, and Darren

Rolves approach their equipment and their ski boots in particular?

In part three here of our very deep dive on ski boots, Matt Manzer and I discuss how some of the

all-time greats feel their

gear and how some of them are almost superhumanly attuned to the slightest changes of a binding

or a ski boot. And just a heads up as you listen to this episode, you might want to be asking

yourself whether you are more of a Marcel when it comes to your gear or more of a

Darren Rolves. You'll see what I mean. Now, we've got some good news and some bad news here.

The good news is that this is a really interesting conversation, but the bad news is that

while we came in with very good and very real intentions of working our way through

the great questions that so many of you have now submitted, you'll even hear me say to Matt

that this was our plan for the day. We ended up going longer than we'd anticipated talking about

racers and race boots, and so we are going to get to your questions next time. But for today, the topics at hand

are racers and race boots. We also talk about forward lean and how to measure forward lean

and whether lots of forward lean or less forward lean is better. We also talk about static power

straps versus elastic booster straps and what the deal is there.

And we even get into a conversation about who is pickier about their equipment, World Cup

skiers or World Cup downhill mountain bikers.

So yes, once again, we are covering a range of topics and I think you guys are going to really enjoy this one.

And today's episode of Gear 30 is presented by Tribe Alpha. Tribe Alpha is great e-commerce for the

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