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Are you ready to slip on some “40-mile-per-hour slippers” to improve your skiing?
Speed Skater and Water Skier Produces Custom Water Ski Boots
Bruce Kohen, a competitive speed skater and avid water skier, produces custom water ski boots from his workshop in Missouri. He is proud of his product, and for good reason. Getting a pair of his boots is getting your own custom artwork that also creates a near perfect link between you and your water ski.
Bruce will make your water ski boots in whatever color you want, in a low- or high-top style ready to attach to your preferred release binding mechanism. These don’t look like normal hardshell or neoprene boots. These are elegant and sleek, and look more like comfortable slippers.
Supportive slippers?
While these boots look like slippers from the outside, they are actually built with carbon fiber bases and ankle supports. Each boot is custom lasted to your feet, in your skiing position. Whatever your feet are like, the boots will be a perfect fit because they are built around your feet. Bruce is innovating on his own designs, working on giving the rear boot more flex while keeping the stiff sole on the front boot.
Performance Advantage
When talking about the pricing of these gorgeous water ski boots, Bruce talks about what someone will pay for the new Mastercraft ProStar – upwards of $89,000 – to get a performance advantage in their skiing. His boots don’t run near that, although they are, as he says, more than anything you’ll find stock on the market. This is not an upgrade to a $300 ski, but for someone looking for the next advantage in their water skiing, these boots may be just the tool.
Reflex Release System
Bruce has chosen to fit his boots to the Reflex release system because it has had the least major malfunctions causing injury to the skier. He produces the boots and platforms. You can get the release system from Reflex.
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I am aware of the hum throughout this episode. It was an artifact from the way the interview was recorded. I apologize. I was trying something new to get the interview and this noise popped up as electronic interference as a result. I am already working on a solution so it doesn’t repeat in future episodes.
