Giray Dadali

Giray Dadali emerged onto the freestyle scene through filming with Meathead Films (Ski the East) and years of competing in slope style, rails, and half pipe competitions. Known ubiquitously by his nickname, “Ahmet’s Brother,” Giray has built his passion for skiing into his career, engineerings skis for J Skis and 4Frnt, and establishing his own brand of touring binding adaptors called Daymaker. Giray finds plenty of time to rip it up in the Wasatch both on his sled and around Snowbird.
Hobbies: Volleyball, mountain biking, hiking, surfing
Birthplace: Canandaigua, New York
Instagram: @ahmetsbrother

I could never get the proper heel retention in a boot due to my lower volume ankle coupled with a long big toe and kind of wide foot so I used tons of J bars all the time. I've tried intuition liners, 3 piece boots and 2 piece boots. Sizing up... sizing down. In 2015 I bought a pair of these liners in Jackson Hole, filled the ankle pocket with more cork, and seriously have never looked back. I could wear a proper sized boot again instead of cramming into tiny sizes with tons of boot work.

That cork is regenerative. Cork Oak trees can have their bark harvested up to 10 times in the tree’s lifespan and during the ~7 years that it takes to regrow the bark, the Cork Oak is sequestering 3-5 times more than a tree that hasn’t had it’s bark harvested. Pretty frickin’ neat.