Assuming a ski is long enough to get a critical amount of edge metal on the snow, would an early rise ski with traditional camber work with your stated goals? I can see where tail rocker in inimical to your pursuits, but I don't see why early rise/ modest front rocker (again, assuming the ski is long enough to have a meaningful on snow running length) wouldn't work.
My time at the end of last season on the Blizzard Bonafide and Rossi experience line tells me different.
Also, though the Icelantic doesn't refer to the Shaman's boat hull tip as 'rockered' but it sure ain't standard issue either..when I've laid them down next to my Nomads (which have a corpulent 145mm tip) the Shaman's tips go way higher-there is an early rise aspect to that ski. The tip is definitely designed to add extra flaot where a standard tip does not-just like early rise. And, those unique tips when coupled with a twin tip tail, ample side cut, and a fairly stiff construction, make it the deep snow world-beater that it is.
Terminal Velocity...isn't that the speed at which a falling mass can go no faster until another force acts on it??...Maybe Critical Velocity (the minimum speed required to get float on traditional skis) is a better term. Just working with the basic word, I'm not sure 'terminal' is ever something I want to achieve on skis
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