golden gaba hat geschrieben:am material liegt es nicht
vielleicht. doch evtl. interessant:
"Gotama Construction Philosophy
Here is a short description of the philosophy behind the Gotama's construction.
the gotama is a new way to think about powder skiing. it inherits alot of ideas from the man mcconkey and his baby, the spatula. i borrow largely from his essay on th spatula for the philosophy here.
the biggest problem with most skis in strictly deep powder conditions is the inherent tendency of the tips to want to be in the snow, rather than on top. this comes from the fact that the camber in the ski pushes the tip down further than the waist when the ski is un-weighted (ie in between turns). this only gets worse when powder conditions come with that thin hard layer on top that makes skis ski all funky.
what happens, therefore, when a ski is skied in powder, is that everytime the ski is unweghted in between turns, the tip wants to naturally dive. this leads to that awkward forward face plant into deep powder - actually a quite dangerous situation. many powder skis address this by softening the flex of the tip so that it will inhrently try to "butter-up" on top of the snow. this does work.
the problem with this is that the camber in the ski makes the ski oriented for actual edging. in poweder, a hard edge, or set edge, is not necessary for turn initiation, rather a sublte weight shift can initiate the change in direction (much like riding a bike in deep sand - you can't steer like on firm dirt). have you ever had your inside ski in variable powder initiate a turn in the opposite direction you're trying to go? this is what mcconkey calls an "unstable hooker".
so, new powder ski philosophy is trying to address this tip diving problem and the fact that there is less need for edge gripping power.
smearing a turn is much more effective than a real carve in powder, - i'm sure lots of people know what i'm talking about here.
so, to take the speed limit off of a ski in the powder, it is important to make it so that the tip not inherently want to be lower in the snow than the waist, and make the ski stable in turns in high speed by orienting the turn quality of the ski away from edge grip and towards not getting unstable hookered up and self-initiating turns.
to do this, the camber has to be removed. yes, gotamas do have ever so slightly some camber. the spatulas took this a step further by eliminating all camber and reversing it. even better.
the lack of camber is why the gotama feels so dead. this lack of camber makes it ski better than anything else in soft snow. it makes it stable, easy to smear, and it really acutally floats on top of the snow.
it's a different experience. all standards about cómparing it to other skis on hard snow won't hold because it's got a different background."
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