J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by Trencher

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Doesn't the Brachistochrone Curve assume no friction? In skiing, consideration of the loss of energy due to the interaction of skis and snow, and also the need to time weighting and unweighting might require a different course. Not that I know anything about physics (really) :lol:

Iceman wrote:

Serious question Trencher - Why did you move over there? Woman?

That, and the early nineties recession.

Snapzzz wrote:

And today i had large chips and gravy from the chippy :-(

I used to love chips and curry from the chippy. I'd totally forgotten about that.

AllyG wrote:Trencher - so you'd say, don't buy skis with those ridiculous matching graphics?

Not if you are OCD :wink:

I'm not convinced that the asymmetrical stresses of consistent left/right use would be significant, but if that were the case... My thinking is that the greatest difference that might develop between skis consistently used as left and right, would be asymmetric variations in the torsional stiffness. Torsional stiffness is important to ski performance, especially on hard snow. Skis are twisted in various ways during a turn. A ski that is constantly twisted the same way might become less resistant to torsion in a particular pattern. This pattern of deterioration in torsional performance would be greater than would occur if the skis were swapped around often, and would be more detrimental to a ski's performance than a more symmetrical loss of resistance to torsion.

In other words, torsional performance would be better preserved by swapping left/right often.

When a store mounts bindings on skis for you, They are required to mark a left and right ski as part of process. They will normally place a sticker on the right ski to differentiate.

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