What's up everybody and welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network.

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

All right, the question of the day, how should a ski boot actually fit?

And what does it mean to have a properly fitting ski boot?

What does that actually feel like?

And how do you achieve that feeling?

Here on Gear 30, we talk a lot about ski boots themselves. You know, we talk about

the differences in plastics, and we talk about walk modes and all of these different things.

But today we want to talk about ski boot fit. How you know whether you have a good fit, and what are

some of the things that going to a good boot fitter

or having boot work done, what can that do for you? And the short answer of the question is,

is that getting your boot fitting the right way will make you more comfortable and ski better

and enjoy skiing more. So to help us out on this topic, our guest

today is Sebastian Steinbach, who in addition to being the owner of Black Sheep Sports in

Munich Germany, well, Sebastian is also a Masterfit University European instructor, and he's somebody who not only teaches bootfitting,

but is currently spending a ton of hours every single day bootfitting many, many real-world

customers at his shop. So yeah, this is a good person to talk about boot fitting and properly fitting ski boots.

This episode of Gear 30 is presented by Mountain Flow Echo Wax,

and while dialing in the fit and feel of your ski boots,

maybe those are some subtle things that actually can lead to pretty significant differences on the

mountain in terms of performance and your enjoyment of skiing. Well, keeping your skis waxed

or applying wax on your skins before you go out for a big day in the backcountry, those are

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