blizzard "flip core"

[falls]

Technology
Flipcore - Blizzard Flipcore is a revolutionary new rocker technology. Natural spring, lightweight floatation in powder, while yet retaining excellent stability are the immediate advantages of Blizzard’s new construction. All of this is made possible through the flipped wood core (the ski is actually made upside down in the mold), whose downward-facing convex side forms the natural rocker. The natural rocker shape is produced without having to bend or artificially shape the ski in a press. The end result is a new rockered construction that reaches a new level of stability and even pressure distribution that is unheard of in freeride ski construction.
Construction
The idea of building a ski upside down was conceived by Arne Backstrom. We did it and it’s called Flipcore.

[doughboyshredder]

BWAAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAAAAA

amazing what bs the marketing departments try to come up with.

[sammer]

My thoughts on this besides being marketing BS, is
the layers of wood grain (in a core machined from the top and placed in the ski as normal) are like a pyramid,
Longer strands on the bottom and progressively shorter as you go up.
Each shorter "layer " is supported by the one under it.
I don't have any proof of this, but in my head it makes sense.
Just putting it out there.

sam