Amazing picture

[elevens]

I'm sure a few of you have seen this picture recently but it still blows me away.

Maybe Erik should be skiing on Igneous instead of Dynastar

Notice that his boots are still locked in.

Pray for Snow

Elevens

[jstead]

What do you think?

[Crinkle]

Originally posted by jstead
What do you think?

steel or aluminum

[Plakespear]

Originally posted by elevens
Notice that his boots are still locked in.

That's because he's using Looks instead of Markers.

Personally, I'd prefer to set my binding so that they release if there's enough force on them to break a World Cup quality ski.

[PeachesN'Cream]

WC stock race skis are usually kinda delicate dudes. most are foam core (SG and DH skis are still wood i think?) these days and usually are not intended to last more than a season.

i remember seeing some WC DH a few years ago where some guy overshot a huge knoll and blew up hard. he then walked away with his binding and derby plate still attached to his boot.

nice little FYI post don't ya think? - bcf

[Showtime06]

The world cup skiis only last for a season cause they ski on them so much, those guys have so many pairs of skiis and they only use them for a season...the thing that happened with schlopy is that his ski exploded in between the two gates which made him fall, his bindings had nothing to do with it cause he didn't clip the gate...

[joshbu]

I got smacked down on this subject a few months ago, so I get to rely the data.

If you look at the blow up of this pic in the front of SI (it's the "covers of Sports Illustrated" issue) you'll see the ski certainly has wood in it. Foam doesn't splinter.

Also, WC skis -do- last longer than a season. In fact they tend to get faster and faster as they get more tunes in on them.

The read:

http://forum.powdermag.com/cgi-bin/u...=002649#000011

[Showtime06]

Originally posted by joshbu
Also, WC skis -do- last longer than a season. In fact they tend to get faster and faster as they get more tunes in on them.

The read:

http://forum.powdermag.com/cgi-bin/u...=002649#000011

The person on the powder forum is wrong...they only use their skiis for one season because each season whoever their sponsor is tweeks the skiis just a little to improve them or make a ski the way the racer wants it such as rossi does for bode...however you are correct that with more tunes on the ski the faster they go throughout the season...in the last issue of ski racing mag daron rahlves' ski technitian spends between $200-500 on tuning the skiis the night before the race and puts something like 15-20 coats of wax on each ski so all of the wax gets absorbed by the base...he does this to 10-12 pairs of skiis all waxed slightly differently and on race day rahlves does a speed test with each pair to see which skiis will give him that extra .1 sec

[badmigraine]

All that repetitive prep work reminds me of what my old g/f had to go through just to get ready for a night on the town...even worse, I was her sponsor and had to pay for all her makeup, clothing and underwear.

Various parts of her also required repeated waxing.

In neither case (racing and girlfriend) do I have complaints about the final result of the prep work, but really...I am too impatient to bother with stuff like that.

Maybe someday they'll give all the racers the same stock rental gear with spray-on wax and see what happens.

Yeah, that, and maybe the Bush administration will implement a nationwide flat tax. Maybe someday.

Until then, back to selecting and prepping my g/f's underwear.