Friday, January 22, 2010

Week 1-Intro

As a ski racer, I've had endless experience with different kinds of ski racing equipment. This includes such things as skis, boots, poles, helmets, goggles, gloves, shin guards, pole guards...the list goes on. As any skier knows, the equipment required for the sport isn't exactly cheap, so when I purchase my gear, I always try to find the products that are the best quality, the most durable, and the easiest to use.

While ski racing, it is very important to have your boots buckled down as tight as they can possibly be. Although this undoubtedly helps your performance while practicing and while in the race course, it can also lead to cold toes and sore feet and ankles. Usually after every run I find myself having to bend over to yank up the hard-to-lift bindings so that my feet don't have to suffer so much. I know that it's important for race boots to be tight, which is why I'm not going to try to create a boot that is more comfortable to wear. Instead, I want to develop a boot with a simple button function that allows you to buckle and unbuckle your boots.

With this product, ski racers could simply press a button to make their feet more comfortable between runs without constantly bending over and wasting precious energy pulling up the buckles with their hands. The same button could also be used to buckle up the boots nice and tight before the skier takes a run down the course. This is a product that I think would be very useful and popular among ski racers.

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