Mounting skis backwards

Yeah mounting skis backwards would fuck up your ski. The ski wouldn't carve at all. The flex would fuck you over.

Didn't Dumont do this for pipe at x games one year, so they'd carve switch better? Or was that just a rumor?

its kind of a cool idea like what if ski companies made skis that were meant to do it so people could in a sense customize their skis and have flexes where they wanted

I've seen people do this with old school invaders - mount one ski facing one way and the other ski the opposite direction.

Domains are symmetrical
Profit????

DrZoidbergDidn't Dumont do this for pipe at x games one year, so they'd carve switch better? Or was that just a rumor?

Nah, just a rumor. Kinda like the Pep mounting race skis backwards to hit gates switch.

hmmmmm

WAY back in the day the Head Mad Trix were actually designed to work like this. They had this crazy switchable binding that went from big mountain mode to park mode.

The binding was way too heavy to be useful, but I mounted my bindings like 1-2cm forwards of center and the ski backwards.

It was absolutely fucking DYNAMITE for riding switch. Never in my days on skis have I had as much edge control and stability at speed as then. However, every time you tried to go over a mogul, you would double eject because of the tiny little tips. That is a sprinkle of an exaggeration, but it was definitely pretty bad.

If you want to go on a switch life mission where you're committing to skiing backwards 75% of the time, its a fun experiment. Other than that a normal center mount with symmetrical skis is probably the best bet.

Mr.BishopWAY back in the day the Head Mad Trix were actually designed to work like this. They had this crazy switchable binding that went from big mountain mode to park mode.

The binding was way too heavy to be useful, but I mounted my bindings like 1-2cm forwards of center and the ski backwards.

It was absolutely fucking DYNAMITE for riding switch. Never in my days on skis have I had as much edge control and stability at speed as then. However, every time you tried to go over a mogul, you would double eject because of the tiny little tips. That is a sprinkle of an exaggeration, but it was definitely pretty bad.

If you want to go on a switch life mission where you're committing to skiing backwards 75% of the time, its a fun experiment. Other than that a normal center mount with symmetrical skis is probably the best bet.

I remember those. They read "Big Mountain" in one direction and "Park" in the other.

Also, OG Pocket Rockets had an arrow pointing towards the tips so that they didn't get mounted backwards.

Caucasian_AsianI remember those. They read "Big Mountain" in one direction and "Park" in the other.

Also, OG Pocket Rockets had an arrow pointing towards the tips so that they didn't get mounted backwards.

Yeah that was it! Basically though the tips when you put them in 'Big Air' mode (which is what I think it was) were extremely stiff because they were just the tails of the skis. Mad Trix were made of fucking adamantium too so that tiny short tip was brutal.

YUNG_milksteAkDomains are symmetrical
Profit????

Yeah I'm pretty sure they are which is why it shouldn't make a difference