Testers found that the ST suited our bigger, taller guys best. Testers who felt that the VFF Pro was a touch too soft, found their fore-aft target in the ST's pinned and reinforced cuff design. The flex feel is still characteristically elastic and long-travel (a DaleBoot trait, we think) but with a firmer starting point that worked well for skiers with longer legs).
This is not to say that the ST couldn't be built for a shorter guy—or even a strong skiing woman—like all DaleBoot models, the lower boot is completely customized to the skier's foot shape and the upper is selected to match the shape and length of the lower leg shaft.
The ST lower can be built to suit the narrowest sliver of a foot (92 mm at size 26) up through gargantuan proportions (110 mm at size 26). The upper boot on the ST is available in two different cuff heights, per size, to suit varying lower leg shaft lengths and shapes.
The liner is any one of six options for volume and density, in two different styles, of which testers noted that the spiral wrapping style did a great job of padding the lower shell's cabrio opening for an easy slide into and out of the boot. The DaleBoot's entry and exit scores remain the best, across the board, period.
At first, testers new to the DaleBoot design struggle with the unique buckle closure system but manage to get trained up quickly and generally approved of the resulting containment. A newly redesigned toe dam "spat," has solved previous pop-off problems, making the buckle-up process much more trouble-free.
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