Weight Loss and Classic Ski Fit
Hi everyone,
I have a good problem to have. I've lost about 20 pounds this spring and summer (down to 180). Assuming I keep it off, is this enough weight loss to cause a fit problem with my waxable classic skis? I'll bring them to the shop and try them out on the flex board this fall, but curious if a 10% weight loss will do more than force me to extend the kick zone a bit. Not that I'll be too upset if I have to buy a new pair of skis in the fall :-) Jack |
Weight Loss and Classic Ski Fit
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Weight Loss and Classic Ski Fit
Jack Riley wrote:
Hi everyone, I have a good problem to have. I've lost about 20 pounds this spring and summer (down to 180). Assuming I keep it off, is this enough weight loss to cause a fit problem with my waxable classic skis? I'll bring them to the shop and try them out on the flex board this fall, but curious if a 10% weight loss will do more than force me to extend the kick zone a bit. Not that I'll be too upset if I have to buy a new pair of skis in the fall :-) Jack Could always carry a small backpack of emergency supplies (such as cookies!) gr |
Weight Loss and Classic Ski Fit
Hmm. I was going to write an incredibly informative and insightful response
to Jack's post. And then you guys showed up and took the wind out of my sails with simple humor. Interesting how the "dumbest" jokes can be the funniest. The beer and cookies ideas really had me rolling! So, what to do? Press on, I suppose, at risk of appearing humorless in my inability to add to the list of jokes... The answer, Jack, is: it depends. It depends largely on the relationship between the closing flex, the finishing hardness, and the camber height of the ski. When you measure the closing flex of a ski you measure the load required to close it to a 0.1mm or 0.2mm (depending on your protocol) residual camber height. When I talk about a ski that is hard at the finish, I'm talking about the load required to "finish" the ski from that closing flex. The load required to actually put pressure on the wax. If there are two skis that close at 58% of body weight, but one finishes off with an additional 3kg load while the other require 13 kg to finish, you can guess which one will be easier to ski. I spend most of my time selecting skis looking for something with a soft finish but a relatively high half-weight camber. In other words, a ski that might have plenty of room for klister at half weight (maybe 1.0mm), "closes" to 0.2mm at 55-58%, and is totally finished (pressure on the wax) at, say, 65%. The alternative is to find a ski with a really low half weight camber, (say 0.3mm), a closing flex (to 0.2) at 53% body weight, but a finish at 80% of body weight. Basically we're looking at, on the one hand, a spring with light resistance but a lot of travel, while on the other hand looking at a spring with high resistance but not much travel. Clearly, the low resistance/high travel scenario provides an easier kicking ski that will work through a broader range of conditions while the high resistance/low travel scenario would look like a great powder ski if all you check if closing flex (53%) and camber height (0.3mm), but is going to be a frustrating ski. Kris Freeman's favorite skis have a half-weight camber height of about 0.9 or 1.0mm. They close to 0.2mm at 57% of his body weight - a little bit stiff by Fischer's standard recommendations, but pretty soft in the line-up that Kris carries around. But the magic is that they finish with an additional load of 2.5kg. They are his best skis in every condition. So, if you've got skis with a soft finish and a high lively camber your 10% weight loss may not be a big deal. In fact it may broaden the range of useful conditions for the ski. However, if you've got a ski that finishes hard, it may be really difficult to ski now that you're lighter. You should definitely plan to have the local shop put them on the flex board. See if you can get some information on the change to the camber height in addition to the pocket length. You may need to wax more layers in addition to longer. And if they can tell you something about the hardness at closing it would be helpful. But the ultimate test will come when you put the skis on snow. Good luck! Zach Caldwell http://www.engineeredtuning.net/ "Jack Riley" wrote in message om... Hi everyone, I have a good problem to have. I've lost about 20 pounds this spring and summer (down to 180). Assuming I keep it off, is this enough weight loss to cause a fit problem with my waxable classic skis? I'll bring them to the shop and try them out on the flex board this fall, but curious if a 10% weight loss will do more than force me to extend the kick zone a bit. Not that I'll be too upset if I have to buy a new pair of skis in the fall :-) Jack |
Weight Loss and Classic Ski Fit
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