New Innovations in Bootfitting with Pulse Boot Lab

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BLISTER

Arts, Design, Skiing, Snow, Snowboarding, Sports, Outdoors, Bike, Technology, Gear

4.9 • 809 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Are you one of the many people who have ever wished that your ski touring boots were a bit stiffer or more comfortable? Well then listen up, because the bootfitters at Pulse Boot Lab in Revelstoke have come up with a number of innovative ways to achieve both.

TOPICS & TIMES:

Pulse’s “mathematical” approach to bootfitting (2:12)
The Pulse Fit Assistant App (5:26)
New tools for shell modifications (8:30)
Thermo-moldable vs. injection-style liners (11:12)
Biggest trends in bootfitting (17:24)
What is the Pulse Proflex? (18:48)
And how exactly does it work? (22:24)
Why did they choose to work with Pebax? (28:10)

The Pulse ProFlex Kickstarter Campaign

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network.
0:09.9	I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, the founder of Blister, and you can check out all the stuff we're doing and reviewing over at blisterreview.com.
0:18.9	If you happen to be one of these zillions of people who have ever wished that your ski touring
0:23.4	boots were either a bit stiffer or more comfortable, listen up. Because today on Gear 30, we are
0:29.7	airing a conversation that Blister Senior Editor Sam Shaheen recently had with Kai Palcannon, the
0:35.9	head boot fitter at Pulse Boot Lab in Revelstoke,
0:39.1	about a number of the innovative ways that Pulse is changing boot fitting.
0:44.8	Sam and Kai discussed Paul's proprietary boot fitting app, also their custom shell modification tools,
0:51.5	and then they talk about Pulse's new product, Proflex, which is a ski boot
0:56.1	insert that can stiffen traditional two-piece ski boots by up to 30%.
1:02.4	You can check out the Pulse Proflex campaign on Kickstarter, which runs through Wednesday,
1:07.8	January 30th, and we've included a link to the Pulse Proflex Kickstarter campaign
1:12.7	in the show notes to this episode.
1:15.2	And now with that, let's go ahead and get to Sam's conversation with Kai Paul Canaan.
1:22.2	Hello, and welcome to this episode of Gear 30.
1:25.1	I'm Sam Shaheen, senior editor with Blister, and I'm talking today with Kai Pauls-Booten at Pulse Boot Labs in Revelstoke, Canada.
1:32.2	How are you doing today, Kai?
1:33.7	I'm doing good. How are you?
1:35.6	Excellent. What's like in Revy today?
1:38.6	It's a little bit different today.
1:40.8	It's actually not snowing.
1:45.0	Wow. I am super jealous. It's also not snowing here. It's been a good season so far.
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