Is there a RIGHT and LEFT ski

This reminds of the asymmetric snowboards of the mid nineties.

This was when people started pointing both feet forward at an diagonal angle across the board. The obvious body movement was diagonal as well. To compensate for the asymmetric transfer of mass from one side to the otherside, boards were made with the sidecut of one edge ahead of the other.

It wasn't too long befor people figured out the what was needed was not an asymmetric snowboard, but symmetric movement. That was the end of asym boards.

Trencher

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Spent some time canvassing opinions on left/right and there were a lot of answers. Most of the people I spoke to were racers of some experience.

The most common answer was symetrical tuning, but often with a twist. That is, while not designating a left and right ski as such, they would practice on one set of edges and then switch ski sides befor the race. This they thought would give them a less worn edge when they needed it. These people were mainly using skis in the 14m to 16m sidecut range.

Racers using longer, stiffer, less side cut skis (traditional GS) would dull thier outside edges as they needed all the pressure on that outside ski to bend it. Slalom racers wanted sharp outside edges as they pressure the inside ski more.

Trencher

Dshenberger wrote:Hey Trencher, I don't know if you have seen anything like this, but check out:
http://extremecarving.com/movies/movies.html That makes boarding look like fun! :)

Check these out as well

http://www.pureboarding.com/pureboarding/fileadmin/user_upload/publisher/videos/carveitup/carveitup_dsl.wmv

http://carving.onedge.ru/HTML/vi1.htm

A lot more can be found on the Carver's Almanac site

http://www.alpinecarving.com/ovid.html