Year of the BOA? Atomic’s Matt Manser on New Ski Boots, Liners, & BOA Systems

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

4.9 • 809 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2023

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

Matt Manser is back to go deep on the just-unveiled 23/24 Atomic Hawx Ultra XTD (and Hawx Ultra XTD BOA GW); the new Hawx Ultra XTD Mimic Professional liner; the all-new Atomic Backland XTD; and why we’re suddenly seeing the proliferation of the BOA system on ski boots. We also discuss ponies, children’s cough syrup, and Matt shares his own ‘Crashes & Close Calls’ story.

TOPICS & TIMES:

Scotch, Kid’s Cough Syrup, & Happy Hour (9:22)
BOA Teaser (16:01)
23/24 Hawx Ultra XTD (17:42)
Last Width and Plastics Used (19:59)
Measured Weights (29:44)
Comparisons to Other Boots (32:47)
Glued-On Sole (36:21)
23/24 Liner Improvements with Mimic (39:33)
Gnar Bar & Walk Mechanism (45:25)
The BOA in The Room (51:49)
Fit / Importance of Fit (1:01:56)
Durability & Repairability (1:03:26)
Why BOA now? (1:10:02)
Boot Out? (1:16:32)
23/24 Women’s Hawx Ultra XTD (1:19:01)
23/24 Hawks Ultra XTD Mimic Professional Liner (1:21:57)
Consumer Options for Liners (1:23:42)
Backland (1:29:51)
23/24 Backland XTD 120 construction (1:38:23)
Why Still Call It a “Backland”?(1:41:54)
Crashes & Close Calls (1:45:18)
What We're Celebrating (1:50:56)

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network.
0:10.2	I'm Jonathan Ellsworth and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over at
0:16.7	blisterreview.com.
0:20.0	So a big new trend in the world of ski equipment is the boification of ski boots.
0:28.6	And I'm sure a lot of you are out there wondering what in the world is going on here.
0:35.2	Why is this a thing?
0:36.5	How did this become a thing?
0:38.6	And what should we make of it?
0:40.7	And so, Atomics Matt Manzer is back on Gear 30 for the 830 second time to talk a bit about
0:49.7	the Boa backstory here and also to dive into Manzarian detail about the new Atomic Hawks Ultra
0:59.2	XTD boot, the new Hawks-XTD mimic professional liner, and also some improvements to Atomics
1:08.9	mimic professional liners in general, and we talk about the entirely new Atomic Backland XTD boot.
1:17.3	So yeah, this is a long one, but a very good one, and honestly, any self-respecting ski equipment dork
1:26.7	has to, I think, listen to this one to start getting a handle
1:31.6	of, again, how in the world this coming season became the year of Boa.
1:40.2	Now, we've got a couple related notes here.
1:43.2	Our first look and flash review of the new Hawks Ultra XTD
1:48.6	should be up on our website by the time you are hearing this.
1:53.8	Blister reviewer Dylan Wood and I now have several days in the boot.
1:58.9	So become a blister member to check out that flash review and all of our other flash reviews.
2:06.1	And if you are not yet a blister member, well, now it would be a really good time to become one
2:12.0	since we are about to drop a ton of flash reviews with our initial impressions on a whole bunch of new
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