J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by Trencher

We used to have a square dance at big annual canoe and kayak instruction camp years ago. As I recall, the next day my legs felt like I had spent the previous day skiing. In that instance it didn't matter as the main workout for the day was upper body. Would be very sad to have to cut short a days skiing because your legs were done for due to dancing.

Last season Head and Atomic SL skis went back to a asymmetric tip.

Sorry to go all techy again. As I understand the use of tip and tail rocker in high performance skis, the rocker and camber must be designed to work with the flex and side cut. Simply adding some tip rocker might make the ski easier to initiate turns for a back seat skier, but it doesn't do much for edge hold in very dynamic carving. Unless Elan have asymmetric flex and sidecuts, I don't see the point. Smells pretty high on the gimmick scale to me, but who knows?

Tony_H wrote:Tech alert

It's all right Tony, you just worry about the colour :wink:

steverandomno wrote:

We got chatting to the Elan dealer at an exhibition in Banff last month and he introduced us to new skis that had a left and a right. It was late in the day and so I thought he was winding us up. He was looking at me, looking at him, suspiciously. He had the look of someone who had seen this expression many times. But it is true, they are called the Amphibio and incorporate a small camber that is almost inperceptable. The idea is that it works with the skiers downhill ski to increase responsiveness in turn initiation, or something like that.

What will they think of next!

So this is like the Dupraz skis having different properties on each side. In this case the camber profile has tip and tail rocker on one side/regular camber on the other, instead of a different radius sidecut. Hmmmm

Levelnine Sports site list most of the sole lengths for the boots they have in stock (you have to select a size to see the length). Might be useful.

http://www.levelninesports.com/New-Ski-Boots

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrD9hN5HBFg

Not all of North America is lacking snow.

Dave Mac wrote:

On the other hand, consider the proposition that there is a significant properties differential at first use. How would we, as users, know?

There are many stories of the top world cup skiers and the ski selection process; where seeming identical pairs of skis prove to have differences that can be measured on a timed course.

I was talking to a US team grunt (his word meaning very junior) coach, who was at the last Olympics. On the DH, because the conditions were constantly changing, the top skiers had several pairs of skis at the start. Only after hearing from coaches stationed along the course would a last minute decision be made as to which skis to use. For most of us, the differences between those skis might have been hard to tell.

One reason skis might feel different and apparently make better turns when switched around is when snow has been packed on the bottom of the heel of a boot. This might effectively cause canting. Switch skis, and in the process dislodge the snow et voila, the skis make better turns. This happens more often than people realise.