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K2 domain solve catching on rails?
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Will the new K2 domain really solve the problem of catching on rails? I've heard it has no camber, so will it be the ultimate rail ski?
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It wont make it impossible to catch, but it will certainly help, with nothing dipping under the rail when flat it'll make it harder to catch.
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what more do you want to know...
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Think about it for a minute.
When a regularly cambered ski sits 90 degrees to a rail, both the tips will be below the height of where the rail touches in the middle. With a rockered ski, the tips are pulled up from where the would be, so it makes them less likely to be below the rail, and thus less likely to catch during switchups or butters or spins on and off.
This was one of the first things that I noticed when I started riding rockered park skis (Jeronimos); it should be the case for all of this new upturned crowd.
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plus...zero camber makes that it's completely flat underfoot until the rock where it goes up and therefore leaving even less to catch cause nothing goes under the rail level.
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it's actually quite easy to keep from catching on rails. all you need to do is increase your edge bevel.
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srry for noob question but what does catching rails mean?
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When either your tip or tail gets caught on the rail while doing a switchup.
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Well, it could mean two things, it could mean to catch an edge, like the edge under your foot gets caught on the rail and sends you flying. In this case he's talking about while doing surface swaps or really quick low switch ups and 2 ons sometime the tip or tail gets caught up on the rail cause it's normally lower than underfoot on a regular cambered ski.
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