Author: Andrew

Dalbello Krypton Rampage Freeride boots are awesome…

OH

MAH

LAWD

Awesome boots

The heel hold is spot-on, no hot spots whatsover. I had a bit of an incident where I went off a spine with WAY too much speed, branden kept making some weird motion with his hands but i didnt know what he meant so i hit it.

next thing i know im ten to fifteen feet in the air (really) looking a completely FLAT landing area. oh $h_t.

I landed, compressed and I didnt feel a thing. I was expected that pins and needles feeling in my heel but it never came, i had forgotten about the shock absorber under the insole, these boots are serious boots for the serious rider.

Micro Adjust buckles
Reversed Toe buckle
Power Strap
They have a tongue design similiar to the raichle alpine boots.
And some totally pimp fur lined liners.
A+

(Rider) Mark Carroro – Expert Skiboarder

Dalbello Krypton Rampage boots are a dream…

First of all, these boots are a dream to get on and off, and are really easy to walk around inside and on stairs and whatnot. On the mountain, they gave me the support for some sick carves with the condors and revolts, and padded my landings off of a foot or two of straight air off little kickers in the progression park, just to get the motions back. Also the vibrations were cut back a lot. These boots are great, and seriously improved my confidence, ability, and stability on the mountain.

(Rider) Rob Kraebel – Intermediate Skiboarder

Dalbello Lotus Freeride Boots are SWEET…

Dabello boots are sweet! These are from the women’s line up of freestyle Dalbello skiboots. Comfy comfy! On my fourth time out is when I KNEW without a shadow of a doubt these were the bomb! I did not want to or need to ever take them off for a break nor make any other adjustments! And I did not get the liners heat fitted. I am using currently the #4 heel flex and #8 insert flex. You have LOTS of options, you can have total 100% flex 80 or 70%, whatever you want. Walking is a cinch. Jump landings are sweet. The canting is set by ring tabs rather than using allen wrench. great boots great color. Any Dalbello boot is gonna be goooood!

(Rider) Shelley Bright – Intermediate Skiboarder

Booster Strap is highly recommended…

I was not happy with the cheap Velcro top calf strap on my Salomom Performa 6.0. Some days I would get shin burn if I did a lot of skating and it seemed like I was always trying to tighten the stock top cuff strap while in the lift line. So I decided to upgrade to The Booster Strap from Skimetrix.

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First off they are pricey at $24 to $42 online and double that at local ski shops. For this reason, I have resisted buying them until now. Then I needed to decide which version since there are four from junior, standard, race and world cup. The difference between them is the number of layers of thick elastic at the front of the strap. The more elastic layers; the stiffer the strap. The chart on the order page helped, and I ended up with the Race version for my weight and intermediate ability.

Given the great service I have been receiving from Tognar over the years, they got my order. I highly recommend that you check out their web site if you have not done so already for the most extensive offering of tools, boot fitting aids and instructional information I have found on the web.

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Installation was a piece of cake. The most difficulty was to mark where to put the hole in the strap to make sure it would be positioned properly. Do this with your foot in the boot and get someone else to mark the hole location for you unless you are more flexible than I am. Then using an awl (a center punch with a handle) I pierced the narrow nylon portion of the strap that wraps around the back of the boot trying to limit the amount of fibres I cut, and mounted it with the existing hardware. After mounting my straps, I realized that the strap is fairly forgiving as to hole location because of good overlap with the front of the cuff. But remember to keep the adjust cam on the outside of your legs, not between your legs.

On slope review with 120 Spruce longboards:

The flex felt just right and my boot felt very comfortable even when I tensioned them as much as I could. The strap stayed tight requiring no adjustments through the day, and I had absolutely no shin burn. Then when it was time to take the boots off, it only took a light push on a small lever to release the strap.

On the slope, I felt that I had better edge control and a rock solid interface between my foot/legs and my boots. It felt like my boots and skiboards were now part of my body and that I was in total control of my skiboard’s edges.

I would recommend the use of the BoosterStrap to anyone experiencing shin burn or looking for a rock solid interface between boot and their body.

(Rider) Slow – Intermediate Skiboarder

Buggard Mouse…amazing…

This video was amazing, featuring the best pro riders of the world all throwing down their best tricks, and even giving some trick tips to the viewer. The choice of music was amazing and varied throughout the movie. The level of riding in this video is intense, whether it be from Brett Conners hitting some cliff drops, Ben Wannamaker throwin a shifty 5, or Kirk Thompson trying to grind a tree across a stream. The narration is also awesome, with Ben\’s personal flair shown all throughout this video whether it be his dialogue in the trick tips, or the poems and doodles that appear randomly throughout the movie.

If you love skiboarding, then you will love this video. This is a buy for any skiboarder out there. Only complaint is that it had to come to an end.

(Rider) Ty Bereskie – Expert Skiboarder 


Zardoz Notwax increases speed…

This stuff really works! i took a few runs on the revolts without this applied, and i noticed on the flats, like always, i would slow down a lot and have to skate a lot to just keep moving. Then i put on a coat of Notwax, and the next time i hit the flats, i was able to just cruise through, and was going twice as fast as i was before. There was no noticeably large change on the steep runs, although i could tell i was going a little faster. Where this really works is on flats, it keeps you going, and cuts down your need to skate a lot. I love this stuff!

(Rider) Rob Kraebel – Intermediate Skiboarder

Spruce Mountain Powder Plates are nice, but too thin…

The Spruce Mountain powder plates are a great idea and a great way for you to adjust the place setting of your bindings on the board. It works both on 4×4 inserts as well as the 4×10 binding pattern.

It comes with pre-drilled holes for you to be able to adjust the placing of your bindings mostly to set them back for powder days. Just a few simple turns of your screw and you can take off your bindings, slap these on your boards, and put your bindings into the plates at any back position you’d like.

There was a downfall with the plates I used. After some use and a little bit of tree skiing the screws pulled right out of the plates and stripped the hole, making the plate useless. Making these plates a bit thicker might have made it less likely for the screws to pull out.

Other than the one issue these plates are a great asset to anyone looking to do some powder skiboarding!

(Rider/Skiboardreview.com webmaster) Andrew Deehr – Intermediate Skiboarder

Spruce Mountain Power Plates are a must…

Spruce Powder Plates: An absolute must for anyone who plans to use Spruce Risers in powder. Turns a good day, into an amazing day. Even when coming back onto the groomers after hunting powder stashes on the glades 3 days after the snow stopped falling I really didn’t notice the setback too much on the groom. I can’t speak about when it’s harder though.

(Rider) Mitchell Kuntz – Expert Skiboarder

Spruce Mountain Powder Plate makes mounting bindings versatile…

The Spruce Powder Plate for their Spruce bindings allow the Spruce binding to be mounted into various setback positions on a skiboard. The advantage of such a system is that this allows the Spruce binding to be specialized for the rider to be mounted further back on a binding, hence making going through powder conditions less work. Usually with a normal skiboard binding, they are mounted dead-center, and when they are mounted dead-center, for one to use a skiboard in powder, they need to lean back in order for the tips to stay floating on the powder. By using the Powder Plates, this is less of a task. Also, with the Powder Plates, it makes adjusting the setbacks very easy. If one doesn’t like the mounting, all you need to do is take a phillips head screwdriver, unscrew the binding, then screw it back in with a further back setting. With so many settings available, makes the Spruce binding even more versatile that it already is.

(Rider) Edward Ho – Expert Skiboarder