Message #16018

[bushwacka]

And Liam, I see your point. If you take Gary's Kastle '78 and add 2 inches (10mm) of early rise on the front, they should still ski the same when on the groomed? Makes sense to me.

WOW, I am enjoying this whole thread. Thanks to all. I can't ski it, but I love understanding the physics behind it.

its a shame most of the physics being posted are flat out wrong....

Let just say I let terrain dictate what I am going to dicate to it. I do not a let a mis guiding way of skiing that is missing a whole chunk of what is skiing make me choose skis that force me to not skid turns. Learning to control a slipping edge and do it well and you will be able to ski anywhere. Learn to do it on steep powder runs and you will never want to ski you supershapes again.

I REALLY disagree with the tighter sidecut meaning tighter turns in powder. My SL skis will not and can not turn like my 40 meter thugs in powder, nor did shaman make me a better skier in trees, in fact they were full of caught edges.

these are thugs, these are EC tree run off the beaten path. 40 meter sidecut works amazingly well when you can not ski on the bottom.