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Please see our copyright and disclaimer notice page. Super sidecuts, radical-width dimensions, and shorter lengths have taken hold of current ski design, enabling skiers to carve quicker, deeper, and more easily. With their help I was brought up to date on current boot technology and features, then had a chance to jam my dogs' into over 20 different boots and ski them in a range of conditions, using various adjustment settings but on the same pair of skis. My opinion was that high-end boots all skied similarly as long as they fit well and didn't inflict debilitating pain. I was flat wrong.