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Some advice to progress my (disabled)skiing
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Hi guys and girls, im new to this forum. Ive been skiing for around 8 years and am an above knee amputee. Can quite happily hit fast reds and blacks with no problems and am now finding that my gear is holding me back. Im skiing a
K2
silencer twin tip 80 underfoot (thus sinks in powder) and also use outriggers (as shown below, to aid my standing whilest skiing)
[IMG]http://www.superlite.org/outrigger.html[/IMG]
1) I am looking to do some powder/back country - does anyone know of wider outriggers for powder skiing?
2) Anyone hve any single ski for sale or know whetre i can get a single twin tip backcountry style ski?
Many thanks,
Paul
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Hi, It might be a long shot as it is a US based company but you could try giving Black Diamond a call. I know a could of monoskiers who have managed to get single skis from returns for nothing or close to nothing. Though shipping to the UK may be something they don't want to do. Take a look at their skis anyway as they have a great range of Backcountry skis.
As for the outriggers you are probably on your own there as I don't know of anyone that makes wider outrigger skis - however, I do know of monoskiers who have modified existing riggers and added a fatter stub-ski. Two ways you could do this. One is to make a simple bracket to add a ski below the existing one - downside is weight. The second is to cut the existing outrigger ski to be a plate to mount a bigger ski underneath. The expensive route would be to get someone to make you an additional base for the outrigger to interchange. Assuming you are using something like the Superlight Outriggers you could also give them a call and either get a couple of skis to convert to mounts or see if they have any breakages they could give you.
Hope this helps.
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Hi Paul,
One of our team is a 3 tracker and uses ski poles when there is powder. He finds that there is less drag but there is the added balance issue. It may be worth giving it a few runs to save yourself a bucket load of cash. He also swears by a stiff boot.
I hope this helps.
Scorge
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