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Anyone riding hell bents?
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so i went to go look at skis and i was toally eye opened by the hell bents. im debating weather or not to get these cuz they are so sick. but how do they preform? how is the flex(i tele so i need a soft flex for powder) and most of all how are they swith in powder?
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really soft in tip & tail
do a search for hellbent up the top - heeeeaps of results on them.
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tele on hellbents? You know they are rockered, right?
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I think he means that they 'look good'
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have i been under a rock or is switch tele skiing on rockered skis in powder near impossible
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they are the most fun skis ever totally kills it in deep and can stomp any jump like WHAT!!! you watch in the next couple of years every ski company will have "hellbents" rockered skis are the future of backcountry skiing
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you and me both brother....
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im a little confused as well
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you have been on this site long enough to know that lots of people do.
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doesn't seem like it'd be that much different than regular bindings, i've heard that people, esp bigger people can have a tendency to fall over foward on hellbents at first, cuz they are so soft and the contact area is so short, but you'd have that issue w tele bindings anyway.. i dont know
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skis are going to perform very differently riding switch in powder with tele bindings than alpine, so i doubt you'll get a very useful answer here.
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ive done it and it hot that hard u just have to find a point where u wont lean all the way forwards but not too back so its not like it impossible
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i wouldnt have baught them for the graphics personally i like my hippys more but i really like the rocker and when u lay the ski the area that touches the snow looks like it would make for a soft poppy ski
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i think he was just stoked on how theyre reverse camber and seem pretty dope and was just asking how they ski cause of the camber
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ya thats what i was thinking.
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yea except hellbents arents reverse camber....
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you haven't seen hellbents in person have you??
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tele on them sounds sketch. i dunno if i would suggest it personally. but your choice, i'd be stoked to see someone trying it.
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yes they are kevin. theyre rockered, which is REVERSE CAMBER in the tip and tail.
asian-ass noob.
ohhhhh snap how you gonna respond to that
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i teled on pontons last year it was weid cuz the flex but it was so fun to get off a tele fle its more funÂ
when we get a really deep day i wanna try the sumos with tele bindings but i have a feeling that the really deep day wont be for a while
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hahaha GOT YA! i guess the sarcasm wasnt that funny cuz even u took it seriously....bad play on my part
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Yes technically they are reversed camber, but not through out the whole ski, that is why we refer to what we have made as Rocker. It has a Tip and Tail 40-40 Rocker. Meaning there is 40mm of space between the tips and tails when pair together base to base, which are flat. We meassure this from the two points known as Forward Contact Point in the tip and Aft Contact Point in the tail. The Rocker then extends inward on the ski for 40cm from each of these points. Thus you have the 40-40 Rocker.
A Volant Spatula was technically a full reverse camber design. While that worked great in pow, we found through testing that the flat underfoot section really brought you the hard snow performance you need to not feel like you are riding bars of soap in a bathtub.
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