At first I did think WOW and rushed to share this with some of you more experienced skiers but now I can see it is a bit of a gimmick. I like the fish scale pattern base and the binding being where it is. Kicker skins are easy to add and subtract if needed.It would work, but it's a gimmick I'd never bother to use.
Sometimes it's preferable to move off the standard mounting position for dropping cliffs and doing reverse airs. Also helps for skating backwards. New school.Given the trouble we went to in the workshop to get xc bindings in exactly the right spot on each pair of skis it’s curious to see a need to grossly change the position.
@Telemark Phat
It was a thing. Fischer made a twin tip skate ski for a while.Sometimes it's preferable to move off the standard mounting position for dropping cliffs and doing reverse airs. Also helps for skating backwards. New school.
I can do that too.Or you can just adjust your technique.
A very salient point indeed!Still find this a very curious need given in the workshop we were always locating the binding to the optimum balance point for any given ski and this is different for classic and skate so the ski would behave correctly on each stride. Surely dicking about with this requires a variety of strides to learn to accommodate the different ski movement associated with each change in balance point and resulting ski behaviour?
My theory on this is in line with @Telemark Phat re adjusting technique.Still find this a very curious need given in the workshop we were always locating the binding to the optimum balance point for any given ski and this is different for classic and skate so the ski would behave correctly on each stride. Surely dicking about with this requires a variety of strides to learn to accommodate the different ski movement associated with each change in balance point and resulting ski behaviour?
This.Ski them for 3 days and you'll dial them in or more accurately you'll dial your technique in to accommodate the ski.
What you smokin' Willis?What about moveable tips and tails, so the binding stays firmly anchored in one sturdy spot but the tips and tails can be extended or retracted via a Glide-Grip App to change the binding / boot interface point of balance?
And another Gnarly Turn App to shorten the inside ski and lengthen the outside ski for purrfect turns.
He’s an ideas man, gotta look after em. Good ideas are hard to find.What you smokin' Willis?
Good ideas men are even harder to find......He’s an ideas man, gotta look after em. Good ideas are hard to find.
Cruel......Good ideas men are even harder to find......