Bart van der Valk

BART

"You made my wintersport holiday!" , or "I enjoyed every single ski-run without having pain, the first time ever!" and "my handcrafted ski's are doing fine, today someone asked if he could buy them from me!"

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To receive messages like these from a client's holiday address, is why I truly love my work. As a bootfitter I aim to customize, the most comfortable skiboots, without any pain and with the perfect fit to control you ski's. Next to that I provide skibuilding workshops where people can design and built their own handcrafted pair of ski's.  This give me the feeling I'm part of my clients holiday experience! 

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Yes, I do work with hydraulic tools in my workstation, but the artisan way, working with my hands gives me the most joy. Clients often describe my shop and workstation as a cosy living room, like a Scandinavian mountain coffee bar, where I try to create a personal atmosphere for my clients. Each conversation always starts with a good cup of coffee. 

I started my career as a wintersportspecialist in giving many trainings to wintersport retailers, worked as a sales-rep for A-brands in the wintersport branche. 6 years ago I made my step to start as an independent ski-bootfitter with my company Kustømaid. 

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Bart provides ski-building sessions. In a craft session of 2 days you will create and design a full customized pair of ski's. As a Master Maker he will guide you in every step of the process and will ignite you with his knowledge and (wintersport) story’s! (this sessions is also mobile)