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gregh
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Doesn't look like you need new skis from the pics you post
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exactly JT, hence my post at 7.20pm!!!! I'm sure this diversion has helped Kramer no end
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
rob@rar.org.uk wrote:
Arno wrote:
rob@rar.org.uk wrote:
The B5s can carve a much tighter radius turn than the 1080s.
This is actually a minus point for soft snow IMO
Why's that?
i'll just quote from Shane McConkey (talking about skis with conventional sidecut):
Quote:
1. “The Pool Cover”- Your weight is directly on top of the narrowest part of the ski. This type of weight distribution immediately puts you in a sinking into the snow situation similar to what happens to the pool cover when you try to run across it. This causes your tips and tails to float but the center of your skis where all your weight is sinks, bogs down and then you must plow through the snow. You will be forced to carve every turn and expend a lot of energy bouncing in and out of the snow.
Sinking/carving = Bad. Floating/sliding = Good.
2. “The Unstable Hooker”- Skis become very unstable and much more difficult to control. In sun crust or wind affect you may have noticed the occasional Unstable Hooker. This is when you start a turn and your downhill ski hooks fast and hard up and across your uphill ski. You cross your tips, step on your downhill ski with your uphill and then stuff your face into mountain. Or at high speeds you may have noticed your skis trying to swim around a bit making it hard to control as you try to keep your tips up and out of the snow. The solution to this in the past has always been to maintain a wider stance in powder and to slow it down a bit.
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Arno wrote:
i'll just quote from Shane McConkey (talking about skis with conventional sidecut):
Yes, thanks, that makes sense. I noticed a bit of a "pool cover" effect when we had a lot of snow at the beginning of March. I guess that all skis will require some compromises as you ski in various conditions.
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rob@rar.org.uk
, a 'pool cover' ski floats more overall than a stiffer one that doesn't do it at all, just from greater area available for impact pressure.
Can we call that the 'barn door' effect, from put a strong-enough engine on a tilted barn door and it
will
fly?
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