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Tip, Tail, and Rocker Photos LINE/ARMADA/4FRNT/ATOMIC

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dylansiggers
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Straightline in Fernie put up photos of the different rocker on all of their 2012 skis, I thought NS might be interested.

Check out all of this years rocker profiles here- http://shop.straightlinefernie.com/blogs/news/4468412-ski-profile-pictures-4frnt-line-atomic-armada

Enjoy!
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Trace.
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threads, that was super helpful
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why
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Che~
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threads
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rudager
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I thought the YLE would have had more rocker.
Interesting.

Although it can all change when you put them together
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4FRNT
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Nah. Long, mellow rocker is the way to go. You want the ski to plane to the top as it picks up speed, not have the tips plow through the snow. That makes the ski slower and more hooky.

Super-soft, super-rockered skis are less useful for anything but the deepest days.
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Abc567def
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isn't that what we are all searching for ;)
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Twig
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Basically this is true in my experience. But from what i've skied, sticking a large tip on the end ruins the improvement and adds to the hooking. So why does the YLE have those traditional tips rather than a continuous smooth long rocker more like some of your other skis?
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4FRNT
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Obviously everything is a trade-off, right? Long rocker with taper is great for not hooking, but it sucks for carving. Lots of rocker and fat tips make hooking really bad. With long mellow rocker like in the YLE you can get a ski that carves a turn fairly well (like into a jump, or through crud, etc), and still not get a bad hook to it, since the ski will engage along it's length more evenly.
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Bloc_chain
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ON3P has rocker profile shots on each ski page...just sayin
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K.C.dia
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I dont understand why other ski companies can't just do the same.
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BlakeG
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A_Thomas
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k2's got em goin on too, super helpful when comparing the different contact points.

http://k2skis.com/skis/twin-tips
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crawley
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threads, good find

here is my addition, the 185 Epic Planks Vaporizers I'll be riding this year:

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Slowbro
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That would be awesome if all companies did that, only other one I can think of is fatypus
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james6345789
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Armada does, plus the flex
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Twig
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Companies kind of do, ON3P has their diagrams which is probably the best out, K2 has the pics and armada/surface at least have those drawings which may or may not be scale.

I reckon backcountry.com did it best when they had photos of the full ski side on + nose/tail pictures though. I find it hard to picture without seeing the full pair.

E.G.

Rossignol S3. It would make buying online much easier if all companies/shops had these.
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