realskiers

another couple cents thrown in...

not knocking anything here but lets keep in mind the ratio of skier weight and height when looking at ski performance. Ski performance is not solely dictated by width; especially in the case of reverse camber rocker skis and other so called powder boards and all mountain skis for that matter. Flex, stiffness, weight and other factors will really play an important role. The Pilgrim for instance is a perfect ski for Gary. It has a nice soft tip flex but is torsionally stiff and fairly stiff underfoot flex-wise, as Gary pointed out, it also has a 17m tr making it very turny and fun. Technique is key and most important for sure but I can't really agree that the sole determining factor is width underfoot for all skiers.

Gary's point about snow snakes is dead-on: if you are skiing trees and off-piste, you need to always be conscience of rocks, logs, underbrush. Tip dive is the culprit. Here's where a rockered tip is so advantageous, with the frontend up it is much less likely to tip-hook.