Ski swing weight

Its mostly photoshop and post-production editing that makes the pros look so good.

Maybe Try drilling a few holes in your tips and tail to reduce swing weight, and get a bit more splicey with your imovie skills.

You got this.

There are some good you tube videos on how to 360 that might help

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggLYlr047Gw

if you want to know about swingweight, you should watch this video. Star wars kid style, but this was fun to shoot with Martin Lentz who is an FWT athlete and Bryon Friedman who owns soul poles.

you could spend way too much money like me and ski park on carbon fiber core skis...


or you could just learn how to ski










ok one serious piece of advice, spinning comes from your waist, not your arms. come in with a wide-ish stance, get a decent pop and think about spinning your hips and legs. your upper body will follow.

The more you spin the faster you öearn to spin it takes some time to learn

Hugh_Conway_jr(Its mostly skill that makes the pros look so good.)

Maybe Try drilling a few holes in your tips and tail to reduce swing weight, and get a bit more splicey with your imovie skills.

You got this.

Best advice 2016

Watta newb

your "real" skis will be better balanced and weighted but they will not be the difference between spinning feeling like a struggle vs not

can you be more specific about what youre saying? what kind of jump are you trying a 360 on? a video would be ideal, that way we can see what youre doing and offer specific advice

most tricks, 360s included, are not an effort against physics, they can be completely natural and well, look at most good park skiers, we're scrawny little white boys for the most part. it's less about muscling through tricks and more about understanding the forces at work and taking advantage of them, for instance on a 3 you can carve into it and the spin is completely effortless

everyone is skiing on rebranded soul 7's. dat honeycomb

SofaKingSickyour "real" skis will be better balanced and weighted but they will not be the difference between spinning feeling like a struggle vs not

can you be more specific about what youre saying? what kind of jump are you trying a 360 on? a video would be ideal, that way we can see what youre doing and offer specific advice

most tricks, 360s included, are not an effort against physics, they can be completely natural and well, look at most good park skiers, we're scrawny little white boys for the most part. it's less about muscling through tricks and more about understanding the forces at work and taking advantage of them, for instance on a 3 you can carve into it and the spin is completely effortless

Ill try to get a video. thanks alot!

yzzidIll try to get a video. thanks alot!

for sure man, a video would help the most (youll gain even from just watching the video yourself) but if not/in the meantime, feel free to PM me with any specific questions

250ryou could spend way too much money like me and ski park on carbon fiber core skis...


or you could just learn how to ski










ok one serious piece of advice, spinning comes from your waist, not your arms. come in with a wide-ish stance, get a decent pop and think about spinning your hips and legs. your upper body will follow.

there aren't any carbon fiber core skis on the market really...

sneekthere aren't any carbon fiber core skis on the market really...

praxis MVPs and praxis piste jibs are mid fat twin tips made with carbon fiber maple ash and paulwonia. the carbon fiber is an extra $150 or $250 option depending on how much you want. makes my 184cm long 110mm underfoot MVPs quite easy to spin, but thats not why i bought them.

also they don't make any park friendly shapes, but DPS makes 100% carbon cored skis...

250rpraxis MVPs and praxis piste jibs are mid fat twin tips made with carbon fiber maple ash and paulwonia. the carbon fiber is an extra $150 or $250 option depending on how much you want. makes my 184cm long 110mm underfoot MVPs quite easy to spin, but thats not why i bought them.

also they don't make any park friendly shapes, but DPS makes 100% carbon cored skis...

Its still not a carbon core. carbon sheets or stringers are used in the lay up. but the core material is not carbon.

... Got a link to the 100% carbon core DPS ski? I just searched their site and came up with nothing. I would imagine that a 100% carbon core ski would be fucking awful to ski... but now I am interested.

Hugh_Conway_jrIts still not a carbon core. carbon sheets or stringers are used in the lay up. but the core material is not carbon.

... Got a link to the 100% carbon core DPS ski? I just searched their site and came up with nothing. I would imagine that a 100% carbon core ski would be fucking awful to ski... but now I am interested.

Making a ski with a full carbon core AND thick enough to drill bindings into would make the ski beyond stiff and heavy AF. Full carbon refers to the composite layers being all carbon compared to fiberglass.

Well Praxis definitely uses fiberglass as well in their layup, but I don't believe DPS does. I don't fully understand it to be honest, but maybe you will. I'm sure there are a ton of threads about this stuff on TGR.


from DPS's site



Is DPS the only Pure Carbon Fiber Sandwich ski maker?

Yes. DPS is the only company making sandwich construction skis with pure prepreg carbon fiber laminates. We pioneered the technology and have evolved it over the last ten years. Our latest iteration, which launched in 2013, is called Pure3—and is found exclusively in our Pure3 line.

Many ski makers claim to make carbon fiber skis, but these are often dry carbon laminates; mixed with fiberglass in a wet layup. Whereas, prepreg carbon is the ultimate precision construction—exact distribution of resin for the ultimate in strength and flex consistency. The highest performance structures built today, such as jet fighters and spacecraft, use the same process.

If you see other carbon sandwich skis in a shop or in person, feel the weight difference between it and a Pure3 DPS ski. Also, bend and twist the ski torsionally—you will notice that most ”carbon” skis on the market twist easily just like a fiberglass ski. A DPS Pure3 ski will feel infinitely more solid and have a ridiculously long shelf life with nearly the same pop and feel on your tenth season as your first.

Well Praxis definitely uses fiberglass as well in their layup, but I don't believe DPS does. I don't fully understand it to be honest, but maybe you will. I'm sure there are a ton of threads about this stuff on TGR.


from DPS's site



Is DPS the only Pure Carbon Fiber Sandwich ski maker?

Yes. DPS is the only company making sandwich construction skis with pure prepreg carbon fiber laminates. We pioneered the technology and have evolved it over the last ten years. Our latest iteration, which launched in 2013, is called Pure3—and is found exclusively in our Pure3 line.

Many ski makers claim to make carbon fiber skis, but these are often dry carbon laminates; mixed with fiberglass in a wet layup. Whereas, prepreg carbon is the ultimate precision construction—exact distribution of resin for the ultimate in strength and flex consistency. The highest performance structures built today, such as jet fighters and spacecraft, use the same process.

If you see other carbon sandwich skis in a shop or in person, feel the weight difference between it and a Pure3 DPS ski. Also, bend and twist the ski torsionally—you will notice that most ”carbon” skis on the market twist easily just like a fiberglass ski. A DPS Pure3 ski will feel infinitely more solid and have a ridiculously long shelf life with nearly the same pop and feel on your tenth season as your first.

Carbon sandwich. (Mmmm)

They use carbon sheets to wrap their Woden cores.

...And Cleary their carbon sheets are way more baller than others. I know of at least one other small batch ski company using a similar carbon material in some prototypes right now. Like their add says, most companies just use stringers or dry carbon sheets.

But at the end of the day, the skis core is still made of wood. Not carbon.