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Paging Ace - you are now permitted to smile
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cast forth these pearls of wisdom On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 05:43:13 -0800 (PST), in , wrote: Even more likely, perhaps more stable in a straight line thus encouraging higher speed? *ding* Or alternatively - allowing faster speeds with the skis flat on the snow with less chance of catching an edge. Modern teaching techniques would emphasise that you're _always_ on one edge or the other, such that this wouldn't be an issue. Logical. I did find the modern things very easy, and SWMBO even more so given her knackered knees. I learned in Sol (but no, my name isn't Kevin) where my instructor didn't go in to such subtleties. He was brilliant at getting total newbies up to stem turn standard in a week though. He took us in to some really deep powder on our last day in what he reckoned were the best conditions they had seen all season (March 1987). -- +----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Pete Fisher at Home: | | Voxan Roadster Gilera Nordwest * 2 Yamaha WR250Z | | Gilera GFR * 2 Moto Morini 2C/375 Morini 350 "Forgotten Error" | +----------------------------------------------------------------+ |
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Paging Ace - you are now permitted to smile
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:34:17 -0000, in
, "MoonMan" wrote: Ace wrote: On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:35:05 -0000, in , "MoonMan" wrote: Ace wrote: Why would you think that the older, longer skis would be 'faster' than newer ones? This theory has always intrigued me too, especially as FIS repeatedly make race ski minimum lengths longer and longer in an attempt to slow competitors down for their safety. To be fair, that's only true for Slalom races, where the shorter skis allow much quicker turns, but at the expense of stability and control. nope, length limits are even more strict in the faster disciplines as are turn radii. "More strict"? Not sure how that could be so - there are minimum lengths for all categories, equally enforced. There is no mimimum radius defined for Slalom, and the desire to move to shorter skis was only really apparent there, as shown by the minimum length requirement of 165cm for Men's Slalom, c/w 215cm for men's downhill. |
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Paging Ace - you are now permitted to smile
Ace wrote:
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:34:17 -0000, in , "MoonMan" wrote: Ace wrote: On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:35:05 -0000, in , "MoonMan" wrote: Ace wrote: Why would you think that the older, longer skis would be 'faster' than newer ones? This theory has always intrigued me too, especially as FIS repeatedly make race ski minimum lengths longer and longer in an attempt to slow competitors down for their safety. To be fair, that's only true for Slalom races, where the shorter skis allow much quicker turns, but at the expense of stability and control. nope, length limits are even more strict in the faster disciplines as are turn radii. "More strict"? Not sure how that could be so - there are minimum lengths for all categories, equally enforced. There is no mimimum radius defined for Slalom, and the desire to move to shorter skis was only really apparent there, as shown by the minimum length requirement of 165cm for Men's Slalom, c/w 215cm for men's downhill. Luckily for me the new regulations for skis have been downgraded to "recommendations" for Masters, I was going to have to get new GS skis for next year to comply with the new radius requirements. I meant that there was more regulation for the faster disciplines and In the few years I have been competeing - if you can call what I do competeing Ski lengths / radii for GS have changed at least twice. -- Chris *:-) |
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