Superfeet RedHot Insoles - Improves my Boot Fit!

Usually the 'little stuff' doesn't get the mention it often deserves in making a ski day better, but in this case these insoles have made a HUGE improvement for me.
Before I get into the brief comments on the Superfeet Red Hot Insoles, I'll give a little history and some lead-up to the use of them.
I found the Fischer Soma X100 ski boot last to be a great 'Fit' for performance and for fit (thanks to a great demo experience at Footloose Sports in Mammoth).
I have a low volume foot, less than medium width. with high arch / instep, a bunch of bone spurs which require some boot mods, and slightly longer mid toes than big toe. And now, probably because of aging I over-pronate enough to where my ankle areas can feel unsupported and take the brunt of hard edging on a full day of skiing.

Coming back to skiing after a 10 year layoff has been an awakening of obvious changes. The skiing part has come back quickly; but most critical has been the need for New Boots.
I did get my Fischers and made some initial mods to accomodate my bone spurs. Took them out for their first day a few months back and found them to NOT be quite like the ones I had demo'd. Fully aware that I was skiing them with the stock footbeds, I quickly purchased the Superfeet 'Green' footbed, since that was what popped up in my search online for the appropriate next step in a replacement footbed.
Skied them again, and although better, my feet (both sides) were still overpronating enough within the boot to cause considerable pressure on the inside of the foot and ankle, and for sore points to develop after a long, full day.
Then I remembered that the boots from Footloose had a RED colored insole...
Looked at the Superfeet lineup again and realized that the boots I had Demo'd had the SuperFeet Red Hot insoles in them.
Bought a pair of those and a week ago got my first chance to ski the day in the Fischers with the Red Hots inserted!.

WOOT!

This was it!, The Real Deal!

The boots now felt and skied just like the demo's I had tried. A full day of hard skiing with comfort, performance and no real hot spots! I was Stoked!

Looking at the SuperFeet Red Hots and comparing them to the Green Insoles (and many other replacment insoles on the market); the most obvious difference (besides the foil in the forefoot area) is the supportive 'ridge/plateau which runs around the bottom perimeter of the entire heel area. This support definitely seems to help stack my ankle area properly and not allow it to over-pronate when edging ( as compared to the Green Foot beds). Which in turn, means no over-pressuring of the inside ankle area.
This may not make a big difference for some, but for me they are a HUGE improvement in support / alignment.
As an additional note. These foot beds do seem a bit thicker at the heel, than the others and very slightly increase the interior ramp angle. But even with consideration for my very high instep, I had no problems with fit for heel pocket or any increased pressure on the instep area. Performance-wise the increase in ramp angle seemed very comfortable in fore-aft balance and may have actually improved that for me.
These Superfeet Rd Hot Insoles have made an already great skiing boot into the best fit/performance I've ever had in all my years of skiing.
  A relatively in-expensive product with a HUGE effect for improvement; SuperFeet Red Hot Insoles get a Gold Medal, Thumbs Up, from me!

Will do...
right now I have 5 full, hard skiin days with them and they feel just as good as the first day.
when you say 'foam', mine have a very dense , almost hard plastic, base which can be seen from rear of arch to back of heel. This material is NOTHING like the stock footbeds you get in boots. Were your's the same model, or maybe they changed the composition since your purchase? These are way different than the Green (and so also the blue) insoles.
These are clearly as dense as the custom footbeds I had the last time I had some made... And my custom footbeds did not have the support ridge as pronounced as these do.
The footbed 'liner' which covers the heel base and forefoot area is, however, just a denser version
of 'footbed foam'. Still, the forefoot area does seem to have some better support than most aftermarket footbeds.
My alignment problems originate at the heel area, and that is where these footbeds shine.

But I will report back after I get about 15-20 days on them.
I'm gonna 'mic' the heel dimensions (thickness, not counting the foam cover layer...) and see if and how that changes over time. My 5 day experience seems to be in line with Steveturner's comments.
I was figuring if I got 40-45 days out of them (that'd be a little over a $1 a day) , I'd be totally stoked, since the last pair of custom corks only lasted about that same period.
BTW, I'm 165 lbs, how much do you weigh? (might be a consideration for faster breakdown)

You mean I could make some dough doin this ?
crazy...
but that would be the interweb

ah, would you call your skiin gal an entrepreneur? or just a whore?

here's my set... review is my experience, ymmv


true, there's a bunch of noise along with signal on epic, but I've been able to sift some pretty good info which has helped me make some good decisions in the past few months. Tried to add some value where I think I have a legit opinion.

lotta legit, good people on epic, a few trolls


am I taking offense? you bet

Phil is 100% right about measuring arch length - I use an F, even though my shoe size would put me into a E. I have a longer arch length...

 

Follow-up to earlier review

 

I now have 60 days on these, in the same boot, and has seen no appreciable breakdown in the footbed. Certainly none in the arch to heel area, The area under the ball of foot and toes shows small weight indentation, but hardly enough to show serious compact of the forefoot dense foam. Not sure how many more days I'll get, but I would think another 25-30 should be a minimum.

They may not make as dramatic an improvement for some, but for me these have been well worth my money.