Message #15997

[jbotti]

Jim, the answer to your question is that it really depends on how you are turning the skis. If you are pushing tails on a flat ski with little or no tipping forces, then yes perhaps the sidecut does not matter (or probaly it matters less). However if you are doing PMTS style brushed carved turns in powder where the skier is forward and pulls back the feet in every trun and engages the tips while tipping the skis, then sidecut matters a ton even in powder. You are still producing a brushed turn but you are getting the sidecut to do some good percentage of the work. As well, when I get on less steep terrain in powder sometimes I am brushing little and actually close to edgelock carving in the pow. Here sidecut matters a ton.