Poster: A snowHead
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The FIS (Federation Internationale de Ski) is planning to increase minimum ski widths as one of a range of new safety measures. (Does that mean they’ll be known as PHIS now?) The measures are in response to concerns about an increase in lower leg injuries, particularly in juniors.
...The decision was taken at the recent 45th FIS congress in Vilmoura, Portugal. As a result, ski widths will be expanded, the maximum ski length will be reduced, plate and binding height will be reduced, boot height will be restricted, and giant slalom ski radiuses will be regulated for the 2007-08 season. They’ve also made crash helmets compulsory in all FIS Alpine Skiing events.
FIS news flash
Other decisions made: http://www.fis-ski.com/uk/newsinformation/pressreleases/pressreleases2006/alpineskiingcouncildecis.html
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Sorry, don't compute. How does wider width reduce injuries? Pardon my ignorance, I'm just too lazy to work it out myself. I'd have intuited that wider underfoot meant greater lateral leverage on the knee...
Does this mean we'll have powder capable slalom skis? Will they need to increase the distance between gates?
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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?
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Surely it's the minimum ski length that should be reduced, as for many short children in Junior 1 the current minimum lengths are unsafe and also put them at a disadvantage.
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It was only about 4 years ago that they increased ski length (155 to 165 for guys) because of the increase in injuries. The factories obliged but changed the geometry so the skis turned like the shorter skis. Longer skis, same forces. It seams strange that FIS didn't set a minimum turn radius for skis. If they had done, those of us who race on snow wouldn't have to change skis once again.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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narrowlast, The 165 slalom skis don't turn quite the same as the 155s did. Race 165s are around 13m, the 155s were around 11m.
My current slalom skis have a 63mm waist so will still be legal, the GS sidecut radius change will have a bigger impact in my opinion.
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This was part of the Minutes of the Alpine Working Group of the Committee for Youth and Children
September 30th 2005 in Zurich, Switzerland
Switzerland has proposed that length of skis – all disciplines - for Junior1
must be in proportion to height and weight and a solution must be found
that will solve the problem of short and light juniors having to ski on skis
that are too long and too heavy. (In ski-jumping the length of the ski is
dependent on height and weight of the competitor). The WG Committee
agrees with the Swiss proposal.
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That first link doesn't work for me, what's the new minimum width please?
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Thanks PG, it seems I'm legally fat enough.
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