Moderating a bit!!! ?
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OK, both of you are pretty darn good skiers, so we'll talk skis and not skiers. ?We had that conversation on another forum.
Ron, you missed ?a subtlety here, he is saying when you HAVE to turn them, when you can't turn by tipping.
jbotti, welcome, haven't heard from you in a while.
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1. So, jbotti, what you are saying is that the mass of the ski is greater (due to it's weight and length) and therefore has more inertia when actively turning the skis?? ?On the two pair that you have, can you notice this difference in inertia? ?Would that depend on the ski itself, a lighter ski would have less inertia?
2. ?I heard somewhere that one of the advantages of twin tips was that the turned up tail helped in the release on difficult terrain. ?I can't ski that terrain, so just repeating what I've heard. ?Think that's true?
3. What is the reason for twin tips? ?Ron, I don't even know what makes something a directional twin tip?? ?
clue me in.?
Edited.? Realized that he is comparing to park twintips with even more turn up to support skiing switch.
4. Seems that, in powder, the twin tip would still have most of the bottom of the ski in contact with the snow? And when in powder, you then get the stability of the full length of the ski and not just the 175cm?
So is it valid to say that the twin tip is somewhat like a reverse camber ski (I know, a stretch) that provides more snow contact in powder and less contact surface on firm snow. ?Are there advantages to twin tips, because they seem pretty common in powder skis? ?What are the ski designers trying to accomplish with twin tips??
I will say that I have had a couple of pair of skis (not at all talking powder skis here) that were flat all the way to the tail and others that had just a smidge of upturn at the back, and I preferred the latter. However, that's certainly no indication that this was the only factor that caused me to like them, but they overall felt easier to turn (and they were much easier in the snowplow).
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