Everyone here knows I was on the rocker bandwagaon before many had even heard of it. I owned my first pair of reverse/reverse skis when only Indy co's were making and experimenting with rocker and it was a season or two before anyone had come out with rockers tips and tails with camber under foot (the new rage for all mountain skiing). I have tried a large number of rockered skis and I have owned several pairs. One thing is for sure, they promote and encourage poor technique. The skis pivot when you don't even want them to. This gives intermediate skiers an immediate sense of confidence because when they are back (which is close to all the time off piste) they can still make the ski turn which is far from the case for them on traditional skis. So what happens, you now have an intermediate skier that rides the tails now skiing steep off piste terrain that he has never skied before and at speeds that he has never been able to handle before. Yes, it's a game changer because this guy is skiing stuff he was literally unable to get down before and he now thinks that he is really becoming a skier. I'm not so sure that this isn't dangerous.
What I noticed when I was skiing the rockered skis (and I was only on them a few powder days a year) was that I was looking to pivot more and tip less annd my fore aft balance was gradually moving aft. It was a very easy decision to see and say this is not helping my skiing. If you wtach anyone on rockerd skis, 98% of the ones I see are all way back on the skis. Most don't know the difference. Most after a season on them can't ski anything else. This leads us to the paragraph on Peter's review of the Movement Trust where they had a bunch of freeride pros try the ski (which is early rise tip and a flat tail) and the response from the pros was that they could not turn the skis. Well of course not!! These guys all ski full rockered skis all the time and they ski them back. Try turning a flat tailed ski from the back seat, it will do nothing but continue to rail in the arc that it is in.
In my opinion, comments like these epitomize a very sad state of affairs in the ski industry. Skiing haa always had amatures that can't ski and nothiing will change that, but now skiing has become the first sport where pros are in the same camp. Sad!!
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