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I gave them a flex and a feel at the SIA show. They felt very much like a water ski. look at what LIB TECH does with their respective sidewalls. they have a serrated knife egde and DPS accumulates this idea into 4 spots. I would give them a shot as I love the DPS 105 and the 120.

skidesmond wrote:I've thought of a left/right ski design where the ski tip would be some what rockered, but instead of being rockered straight back it would rocker at a slight angle. This would give one side of the ski a slightly different turning radius than the other side. That was on my to-do list this winter. Just a thought....

Check out the Elan Amphibio:

http://amphibio.elanskis.com/pc.asp#xpa ... =#lang=eng

It is exactly that, you got normal camber on the exterior foot and a small reverse camber on the interior foot, in order to make the ski easier to turn. I did not try them personnaly but their representant and a tester said they were nice and fun, but that you could not put the left ski on the right foot, because they became a bit unstable and dangerous.

IBut I wonder: if you cannot change your ski of foot, won't the edge use itself faster, since you need to tune it up more often?

maximegb5 wrote:

skidesmond wrote:I've thought of a left/right ski design where the ski tip would be some what rockered, but instead of being rockered straight back it would rocker at a slight angle. This would give one side of the ski a slightly different turning radius than the other side. That was on my to-do list this winter. Just a thought....

Check out the Elan Amphibio:

http://amphibio.elanskis.com/pc.asp#xpa ... =#lang=eng

It is exactly that, you got normal camber on the exterior foot and a small reverse camber on the interior foot, in order to make the ski easier to turn. I did not try them personnaly but their representant and a tester said they were nice and fun, but that you could not put the left ski on the right foot, because they became a bit unstable and dangerous.

IBut I wonder: if you cannot change your ski of foot, won't the edge use itself faster, since you need to tune it up more often?

What a horrible website.

It's 2011, there is no excuse for a large company to have a video on their site that is almost impossible to watch.

I gave up.

Wouldn't a concaved base work better to give float and stability, and there woul be no need for cleats? Or maybe more "smeareability" is what they are after.

maximegb5 wrote:

skidesmond wrote:I've thought of a left/right ski design where the ski tip would be some what rockered, but instead of being rockered straight back it would rocker at a slight angle. This would give one side of the ski a slightly different turning radius than the other side. That was on my to-do list this winter. Just a thought....

Check out the Elan Amphibio:

http://amphibio.elanskis.com/pc.asp#xpa ... =#lang=eng

It is exactly that, you got normal camber on the exterior foot and a small reverse camber on the interior foot, in order to make the ski easier to turn. I did not try them personally but their representant and a tester said they were nice and fun, but that you could not put the left ski on the right foot, because they became a bit unstable and dangerous.

IBut I wonder: if you cannot change your ski of foot, won't the edge use itself faster, since you need to tune it up more often?

I had this thought awhile ago about a left/right ski and having one edge/shovel/tip area slightly rockered compared to the other edge. It came to me after seeing the scottybob website. My reasoning was/is to have the down hill ski and the up hill ski carving the same radius. Lets say you have skis w/ an 18m radius. And normally your feet are separated 16-20in. The down hill ski is skiing a slight bigger radius turn than the up hill, at least on paper. I never got to actually created this ski. Can't say having a left/right ski is a great idea but you never know. Still stuck in my head. I guess Elan beat me to it.

Version 2 has way less dramatic cleats and 2 of them in the rear.

interesting...