WHO is ZipFit?

Sven Coomer is the designer of some of the most iconic boots and bootfitting products in skiing history, including the Hot Gear heated bootbag and the ZipFit line of performance, touring and recreational liners. This year he has release his 'coup de grace', the ZipFit Indy. Combining the comfort and warmth of a heat moldable foam liner with the performance of the OMFit cork material the Indy is simply the best liner around to retrofit your existing boots.

WHY a ZipFit?

By replacing your ski boot liners you can revitalize the fitting, comfort and support of your ski boots. If you replace the liners with the proprietary ZipFit “inner boots” you can transform your whole skiing experience for many years to come.

Skiers know that the ski boot is the first and most important investment in skiing.

The ski boots are your means for communication and control of the skis and your balance.

Skiers also complain that there is nothing new in boots, especially not in light of the new shaped skis. Indeed the top models of today look like highly renovated antiques of the early 70s.

Most skiers know about the demise of their skiing due to discomfort (pain) and support (control) problems. Yet few skiers know that most of these problems are related directly to functionally inadequate liners and support. It is What’s Insidethe ski boot shell, the “inner boot,” that matters most. Even if your feet are “comfortable” poor control is a frightful experience that is viscerally very uncomfortable.

Even if you have the best model skis and boots in the world … it does not matter at all if the stock liners are functionally below par, merely glorified “sock-liners,” that are also often painful and cold. Instead, by replacing the “liners” with dynamically functional “inner boots” you can instantly enjoy the most remarkable experiences skiing, with even the worst boots and skis. This is what ZipFit offers.

Orthotics and inner boots.

You may justifyably object that you bought the best and why should you need to buy another liner?

If you buy another new factory liner you will experience the same limited life span and growing problems. Consider the insoles that come with your factory liners. Every serious skier knows now that a pair of aftermarket footbeds or orthotics can make an enormous difference to comfort and control. Now the aftermarket custom “inner boots” will completely transform your whole experience of skiing. They will minimize the importance of the orthotics ... you will be able to ski without orthotics, but not without a functional “inner boot.”

Unfortunately, the factory liners are dressed up like parade floats, and are as comfortable as living room sofas, but they are gutless and pack-out quickly --- usually between 7 runs and 7 days. Factory liners are usually devised to please someone’s feet in the factory, if they get around to trying them on, and invariably these people are not even skiers.

The ski boot liners have to do many things comfortably. They have to;

• protect your feet and legs from the cold and hard shell plastics.
• keep your feet warm without cutting off your circulation.
• hold your foot and heel down securely, while you gyrate your feet about to manage the skis.
• do all this without tight buckling, which can crush your feet bones painfully and also make the boot package too stiff to ski.

In addition to all of this;

• ZipFit will transmit all your most subtle intentions to control the skis; steering, edging, terrain changes and unexpected needs to recover. As functional inner boots you will have fewer recoveries, and they will be subtle and completely unthreatening to your stability and control.
• ZipFit will improve your balance, control and ability - instantly.
• ZipFit will keep you happy no matter what your mood or the weather or your physical condition.

ZipFit is an independent development group of dedicated skiers who have achieved their quest to revolutionize the bland old factory-issue liners. These inner boots have been evolving within the market over the past 18 years. ZipFit perfected the foam and silicone injected “bladders”, yet there was too much missing. It was “hit or miss” and fiddling with volatile chemicals along the way. More recently, they perfected the receipe for orthotically dynamic molding and now ZipFit is becoming the hot talk among the pros and avid skiers. Distribution is becoming less sparse around the world, now that more time and effort is put into production.

The result is a biomechanically sound and totally functional customized “inner boot” that you just put on your feet and go skiing. They mold to the specific morphology of your feet, ankles and legs as you ski and according to the way you ski. Everything is prepacked within the linings. There is nothing to mix or inject or screw up, as with the custom injected or heat molded liners. You just go. In the same time that it has taken you to read this page you could be out there skiing happily ... for years to come.

Applying a ZipFit inner boot is as simple and as effective as exchanging the stock (standard) tires on your car to high-performance “tires and wheels”. The improvement in handling and control totally transforms the capacity, the handling and the safety of your car, and this alone can greatly improve your own capacity and ability as a driver. Add a Recaro bucket seat and imagine how this analogy affects you as a skier.

“My ski boots are perfectly comfortable.”

Your factory liners may be comfortable, but they are destined to gradually lose support and pack-out long before your shells wear out. That is inevitable with synthetic foam paddings. Packing-out can happen slowly enough that you do not notice how much support and control you are losing. When they become loose enough to notice, because you have such lousy control, you can either double up with thicker socks or retro-fit the liners with bits of foam and shims to relieve the symptoms, short-term, OR, decide once and for all to try ZipFit to permanently replace the causes of all of your thorny problems and debilitating grief.

The question is not “if” you should upgrade, it is “when.”

Should you wait for the factory liners to pack-out?, OR, do as the pros in their new shells, “waste not another day in mediocrity.” Start today with ZipFit.

Another beauty is that you can try them on in your ski boots. There is nothing to mix and inject and risk throwing away if it does not work. If you do not like them after the initial fitting process the next skier will.

Enjoy immediately the most delightful sensitivity and ease of control with the best support, comfort and performance ever achieved in skiing ... and relish the whole skiing experience that just gets better every day.

Imagine a level of heel hold-down and comfort, plus the bonus of improved performance and control, that not even the boot designers imagined possible. That’s the ZipFit quest and promise.

You can enjoy both the ultimate comfort and performance now.

And, to ensure the absolutely best experience with ski boots, ZipFit has also developed the Hot Gear Bag™. This is essential equipment for any serious skier in any boots and liners. Widely used now by World Cup racers, the bag dries out the boots completely overnight with heat that penetrates through the shell and makes them “hot and soft.” Then in the morning, even the stiffest boots slip on and adjust as easily as wooly bedroom slippers. Imagine boots that stay warm and flexible for at least the first few runs every morning until you warm up, and even longer. This is ideal in both cold and warm weather. It’s all a part of the ZipFit quest to offer every skier the means to access and seek out the best possible skiing experience.

The Future

ZipFit, over the past 35 years, has contibuted the most significant developments to ski boot design and technology state of the art as it is today, and this quest continues to push the limitations of the industry. Once again ZipFit is presenting to the ski industry how the functional inner boot can instantly and completely change the performance and potential of any ski boot shell model, and with you in “the saddle” ... your ability and pleasure as a skier. Watch this space for the revolutionary new boot and orthotics developments.

All in the search for the best possible skiing experience.

Happy Skiing,

Sven Coomer