"Rocker" skis the next big thing?

On Mar 18, 9:36*pm, VtSkier wrote:
Trekman wrote:
They've been around for a few years - I think that the first one was the
* Volant Spatula which had both negative camber and a reverse sidecut.

wrote:
On Mar 18, 9:36 pm, VtSkier wrote:
Trekman wrote:
They've been around for a few years - I think that the first one was the
Volant Spatula which had both negative camber and a reverse sidecut.
(Cue lal to chime in with a factoid about 4th century Norwegians and
their negative sidecut boards)
By description, these sound like new technology barrel staves, no?
From February 15, 1965 issue of Sports Illustrated. Sorry
not a facsimile of the article, just the text, no pictures.

You can view the entire original issue (everything on every page) at
http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.c...7909/index.htm

Joe Ramirez

Yep, pages 28 & 29.
Thanks Joe.
BTW I can name all those people.

On Feb 18, 12:47*am, snoig wrote:
On Feb 17, 9:07*am, Evojeesus wrote:

Every thing old is new again.

Years ago Le Ski made the reverse camber claim. *I had a friend who
swore by them but we just told him that we had a pair just like them
but we called them bent.

If you read other skiing forums on the web you'll run into people who
purposefully bent their older fat skis into rocker form and live the
end-result. Adding a bit of reverse camber seems to fit off-piste
skis. I tried last year's model of K2 Seth Pistols this week and
really liked them, too bad this year's model was not available.
Rockers just make sense, I want a long ski for the stability in
variable snow conditions but don't want a ski that is sluggist to turn
in narrow places, forest or bumps. Some negative camber in the ski
allows the best of both worlds, yeah!

On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 11:18:50 -0700 (PDT), Evojeesus
wrote this crap:


If you read other skiing forums on the web you'll run into people who
purposefully bent their older fat skis into rocker form and live the
end-result. Adding a bit of reverse camber seems to fit off-piste

A true skier don't need no steenking tricks. A real skier can get
down the mountain on a shovel, or with two cafeteria trays duct taped
to their feet.

And vote for Palin-Ahhnold in 2012.





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