Member of the Month

partyandBS
December, 2024

Online

Welcome to the Newschoolers forums! You may read the forums as a guest, however you must be a registered member to post. Register to become a member today!

Rockered park skis?

profile picture
Krush
Posts: 1312 - Karma: 12
i can see why it would make sense to have rockered skis in the BC but in the park it doesnt seem very helpful. right?
Jun 6 2007 11:20PM
0 0
profile picture
desiredname
Posts: 21 - Karma: 10
ACTUALLY... i read somewhere. where rockered skis are awesome in the park... thats why pep uses the hellbents in the park.. i thought it would be no good also... but i guess not!
Jun 6 2007 11:26PM
0 0
profile picture
Mt_P0wDerJuNkIe
Posts: 1506 - Karma: 58
nope.. it depends how much rocker is on the ski you wont feel the difference on most rockered skis on groomers or park
Jun 6 2007 11:27PM
0 0
profile picture
Carter23
Posts: 1722 - Karma: 17
no. none.
Jun 7 2007 12:28AM
0 0
profile picture
*DrewT*
Posts: 7768 - Karma: 481
just wait till you try it. And someday in the next few years you should get the opportunity cause it's gonna blow up
Jun 7 2007 1:52AM
0 0
profile picture
buchanan.
Posts: 1911 - Karma: 156
^how did the ones that you made work out?
Jun 7 2007 1:55AM
0 0
profile picture
Troop801
Posts: 345 - Karma: 17
awesome thread thus far.
Jun 7 2007 3:42AM
0 0
profile picture
Capurnicus
Posts: 9947 - Karma: 1,886
I skied on some rockered puppies for the last month or so of the season in the park...it's mad fun for sure! Lots 0 butters and what not. Nose butters all day for sure! The tails on my skis weren't rockered nearly as much as the noses soo regular butters weren't as amazing as nose butters. It's just mad fun to pop all around, you can butter all directions kinda, you know? Basically they just make you want to butter and handplant around all the time. Kinda had a hard time landing switch on mine a little though, because they weren't really rockered just bent, so they kinda gave way a little, but factory rocker probably doesn't do that.
Jun 7 2007 9:12AM
0 0
profile picture
Klick_2_klaim
Posts: 3396 - Karma: 25
I wanted to know about that.
Wouldnt you kinda need to land a little backseat switch to compensate for the rocker?
is it blasphemy to even type that?
Jun 7 2007 1:17PM
0 0
profile picture
Capurnicus
Posts: 9947 - Karma: 1,886
Well, uh yeah that's actually how I had to compensate on mine. But that was only because they were bent from use, not made that way, so they didn't really have anything left to support my weight leaning forward when riding switch. But that was a factor of busted skis not the rocker.

A factory rockered ski shouldn't do that though, like if you lean foward on it, it will support you, you know? Just cause it's curved upwards, the nose will be any less supportive. You'll be able to notice that you have further to lean foward until your noses are on the snow, but the flex should support you unlike my worn sticks which were noodly and just gave way.

Needless to say, the later part of my season involved an increased frequency of switch landings into faceplants.
Jun 7 2007 1:25PM
0 0
profile picture
Klick_2_klaim
Posts: 3396 - Karma: 25
i have no idea what you just said.
when skis are 'bent from use' time to get new gear homie.
Jun 7 2007 1:32PM
0 0
profile picture
Skipig25
Posts: 10729 - Karma: 256
you don't have to jump for switch-ups

and you don't catch edges spinning switch
Jun 7 2007 2:34PM
0 0
profile picture
720skiguy
Posts: 4553 - Karma: 21
he made them rockered himself to try it out without buying a pair

.... obviously
Jun 7 2007 2:46PM
0 0
profile picture
invader7
Posts: 5756 - Karma: 49
never thought of that
Jun 7 2007 2:51PM
0 0
profile picture
*Nefarious*
Posts: 1072 - Karma: 4,208
i had hellbents all spring, and rode park a lot on them, and I decided I never want to ride another ski ever. for any kind of terrain. you may think rockered in the park wouldn't be good, but they are the shit, and yes, they can carve like a muthafucka.
Jun 7 2007 3:05PM
0 0
profile picture
emopoppins
Posts: 3996 - Karma: 269
i wouldn't trust them on straightlining into a big booter though.
Jun 7 2007 3:06PM
0 0
profile picture
FNJ
Posts: 3026 - Karma: 110
ah i want hellbents!
Jun 7 2007 4:00PM
0 0
profile picture
SGLogi
Posts: 1078 - Karma: 13
arnt the 08 lizzys rockered?
Jun 7 2007 4:51PM
0 0
profile picture
FNJ
Posts: 3026 - Karma: 110
no but the EP pros have what they call early rise which is pretty much the same as rockered
Jun 7 2007 4:58PM
0 0
profile picture
Klick_2_klaim
Posts: 3396 - Karma: 25
its only minor and gradual.
I dont think you can call it rockered. the bacons and all the prophits have always had it. dont believe me? go look!
Jun 7 2007 5:04PM
0 0
profile picture
Capurnicus
Posts: 9947 - Karma: 1,886
no i didn't they just became like that after about 65 days of skiing on them
Jun 8 2007 3:40PM
0 0
profile picture
FNJ
Posts: 3026 - Karma: 110
i didnt know that the bacons had but i knew the prophet 130s did but only a little. the early rise is way more evident on the EPs
Jun 8 2007 3:52PM
0 0
profile picture
FUUUCK
Posts: 18426 - Karma: 4,889
moment has a rockered park ski, im thinking of getting it
Jun 8 2007 3:54PM
0 0
profile picture
BillyGoteMan
Posts: 1983 - Karma: 12
Wasn't there an article written by Abma about how ill they were in the park?
Jun 8 2007 3:56PM
0 0
profile picture
720skiguy
Posts: 4553 - Karma: 21
ah my bad. i figured they would go flat but i cant see how they reversed.
Jun 8 2007 3:58PM
0 0
profile picture
FNJ
Posts: 3026 - Karma: 110
i pretty sure youre thinking of pep
Jun 8 2007 4:04PM
0 0
profile picture
-+Siver+-
Posts: 1902 - Karma: 12
yeah it was pep
Jun 8 2007 6:18PM
0 0
profile picture
*DrewT*
Posts: 7768 - Karma: 481
no if you land backseat you're gonna fall back. Just land normal and it's fine. If you land solid it doesn't make a difference
Jun 8 2007 6:19PM
0 0
profile picture
Swan_Solo
Posts: 2374 - Karma: 14
jea, moment is making a rockered ski for next year
it's already on thier site www.momentskis.com
and pep was using AK Enemys made in the hellbent press
so they were a little narrower
Jun 8 2007 6:56PM
0 0
profile picture
zzyzx
Posts: 470 - Karma: 10
wouldnt you slip off more easily
Jun 8 2007 10:50PM
0 0
profile picture
Black-Bandanna
Posts: 6680 - Karma: 1,603
Jea, reverse camber. That happened to my brothers....
Jun 8 2007 10:55PM
0 0
profile picture
Krush
Posts: 1312 - Karma: 12
yea me too, thats y i asked
Jun 9 2007 7:54PM
0 0
profile picture
Love_Wins.
Posts: 5536 - Karma: -1
My Prophet 130s didn't have any rocker that I noticed, and the Bacons I rode didn't either...?
Jun 9 2007 8:38PM
0 0
All times are Eastern (-5)