Message #18552

[jim-ratliff]

FWIW, Lou did the study at Snowbird (funded by Nordica?) that was researching the boot mounting position question, and that resulted in the development (and patenting, I think) of the Campbell Balancer.  Peter Keelty has some old articles on his web site written during the process, expressing the amazement at the visible difference observers could see in the skiing of the test subjects.  If I remember correctly, the test subjects were mostly recreational skiers since Nordica was interested in the mass market application to their skis, but I believe they had some higher level skiers in the test as well.  BoF/CRS came from that study as a close approximation of where the Campbell Balancer would place people.