Author Topic: skiing without snow  (Read 629 times)

nosnowski

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Re: skiing without snow
« on: May 09, 2012, 08:12:18 am »
Interesting concept. It's hard to tell from the video, but it looks more like you are twisting the ??catchy device name??.  That matches some peoples way of skiing. Is that, how they feel when you are on them? 
Do they also turn just from tipping like a ski also would?

It probably looks like knee twisting when I was doing short turns. I didn't have the guts to go faster on the tarmac and probably to induce sharper turns on tipping at a low speed the old pivoting habit kicked in. However, when I was making longer turns I was definitely only tipping on the edge and that's how the design works i.e. when you tip them they turn. On a few runs I was going faster at the bottom of the carpark and when I really committed to the turn it had this sensation of carving. I do not consider myself a good skier and had a long break in skiing due to a knee injury. I didn't think that I could ski again but when I finally found the courage to try it turned out that the injury is not such a big hindrance. I now want to make up for the lost time which is a bit of a challenge given short snow seasons. I got some interest from really good and well known skiing instructors from continental Europe and Canada who would like to give it a shot. This will obviously be the ultimate test.

 
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