Nordica’s website says that Americans are taught that custom footbeds are essential, but that Europeans see them as a novelty item.
Do purebred ethnic groups have genes that make feet not need custom footbeds, do most custom footbeds really not do an awful lot for most feet, and/or are custom footbeds a product of American capitalism (sell the consumer as much as possible)?
Or is it some cultural thing (in America we are taught we are all unique and have individual needs; maybe in Europe things are slightly different in that regard)? In America, things built for us uniquely give us a sense of pride; this is MY footbed!
I dunno; the footbed is the first thing between you and Mother Earth as she pulls you down with gravity. The footbed is really the first thing through which you exert probably 70-99% of the forces skiing.
In a college psych class we learned that human faces are all like 95-99% similar, but that a special area of the brain developed to discern small differences.
Well, really, how much variation is there in the bottom of feet (aside from arch height and length) such that those minute variations actually affect comfort or skiing?
What do the euros know that Americans and Canadians don’t!?
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