Imagine being trapped in a ski boot, that allows the most athletic part of your body access to only 15% of its usual range of motion. Its like trying to be athletic with knee high plaster casts on both feet. If you are one of the lucky 10% in the sure footed natural athlete team, you have a fighting chance. If you are one of the 90% in the unlucky, mono-peds, in the heard. You might find bowling, or video games more confidence building activities.

Understanding how, where, and why feet work best, in skiings incredibly demanding environment, is what drove the development of the SBS. When your foot is trapped in a vise, like a ski boot, only the best 15% of its available motion will do. When you over pronate or suppinate inside a boot, you are wasting valuable movements, which simply accomplish nothing more than locking up muscles that could otherwise be utilized in far more athletic endeavors.

Simply, to be athletic, requires a certain level of relaxation. If we can identify and quantify where you are most relaxed, then we know where to place it, to begin its dynamic movements from. Home base, or what we call “Dynamic Neutral”. From here we can deal with the demands of skiing, and will always have, a little left over. What world class coaches in every sport, refer to as “spare capacity”.

The symptoms of mis-alignment in skiing are often confused with things that most feel are simply just the cost of doing business to ski. Remember, bad alignment is not a victimless problem; your ski buddies will appreciate you no longer complaining about…