I feel confident that Peter is imagining things! I will shoot Mike Morin an email and have him take a look at Ligety's skis. Mike is out in Vail right now. Again I feel very confident that this is marketing fabrication by those that want the recreational ski world to believe that early rise is taking everything by storm 9including the WC). If I am wrong I will come back and let everyone know.
On a related topic, I bought a pair of Dynastar Sultan 85 skis the first year they were made. This is a traditionally cambered ski with no rocker, or at least that is what we thought. The next year the ski was exactly the same but Dynastar claimed "early rise" in the tips. I put both years skis up against each other and the tip profile was unchanged from the two years, yet with the year two version Dynastar claimed an early rise tip. Peter then noted on his website that there was substantial increased interest to demo this ski!!
Is everyone getting the picture?
If you wantt to say that the Sultan 85 (year 1 and 2 as it may have been changed this year) is an early rise ski, I guess you can, but it isn't!!! If you want to say that a slalom ski has a small amount of early rise you can also, but it doesn't!!
Let's go back and read marketing 101 and the light bulb should go off for everyone!!
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