Message #429

[Ghost]

The super-fats won't do; hard snow carving is also required.

Why?
I guess it has something to do with freedom and control.  I want to be as free to choose what I do with my skis with as few limitations as possible.  With the new-fangled shaped skis you pretty much have to keep them at least slightly on edge.  If you put your bases flat to the snow and point them straight down the fall line you get tip wander.   You can rapidly shift edges doing a carved version of the wheedle or semi-skid a very long radius (much longer than the sidecut radius) turn that approximates the fall line.   Where I ski the hills are pretty small.  I like to build up speed on the steep upper portion and then make some high-g turns with it.  I want that locked-in on-rails feeling when I'm turning in a long radius turn and when I'm aiming straight for the bottom, not just when I'm making those tight turns.