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  As of the time of typing, we are now heading firmly into the winter, which might have caused your mind to look more seriously at planning a ski break – alongside, of course, arranging that crucial ski boot fitting session. Now, you might imagine that here at Ski Exchange, we won’t exactly be great enthusiasts of the notion of you doing your ski boot fitting on a ‘DIY’ basis. After all, we do take great pride in offering one of the leading ski boot fitting services in the world. And of course, we would certainly advise against you depending on such an approach to ski boot fitting – especially given the money back guarantee on ski boots that comes with our service. There’s simply no need to take the risk of attempting the entirety of the ski boot fitting process yourself, given that doing so could lead to an unpleasant experience on the slopes, or even serious injury in a worse-case scenario. Still, there are at least some aspects of ski boot fitting that you can be mindfu...

  Whether you are a seasoned visitor to the slopes or you are only just taking up skiing, you could be susceptible to more than a few mistaken and inaccurate beliefs about how to get the best out of your involvement in this activity. Many of those myths centre on ski boots and the fitting process – so, we thought we would take you through some of the most common and persistent ones. Myth #1: “It’s easy to tell the right ski boot size – it’ll be the same as your shoe size” Our short answer to this is: not necessarily. More advanced-level skiers, for example, do tend to wear smaller boots than novices, so you can’t just assume the shoe size you walk in to go to the supermarket every day will be the size that best suits you when you are out on the slopes. Myth #2: “Determining the right ski boot size just comes down to length and width” It would be very convenient if you really could simply place your foot in a Brannock-style measuring device and read off the length and wi...