Moment square tips

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huge-go

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What is the point of the square tip? Does it just look dope or does it serve some kind of performance enhancing function? The only thing I could see the square tip doing is hooking in bad snow like crust or something. Could someone enlighten me?
 
its really unlikely that the squared tips would hook in the snow, theyre high enough off the snow that it wouldnt touch it...but i personally i think they do it for 2 reasons...1..to stand out and make a style statement in the ski market....and 2...it could make the ski slightly lighter than rounded off tips.
 
Hooking is possible still. It might just be wind affected, so you'd be sinking in enough that the tips could go under the snow. And how would square tips be lighter. It seems like more material to me.
 
How? Rounding tips means cutting material off. Take a moment ski, and put a regular ski underneath it of the same length, and I'm gonna assume the moment ski will protrude out from underneath the round tip ski, therefore there's more material, and as a result more weight. Unless there's some strange form of subtraction by addition that goes on here that you'd like to explain to me.
 
so when u see some guy slaying pow or park and think "shit i want his skis so i can ski like him" , but he's too far away to read his skis, you see square tips and say "oh of course, it's moment! ima go buy some moment skis"

thats the reason

oh and they look awesome
 


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squared^ rounded^

less material
 
Whatever, I was wondering about performance, like whether they helped edging or something along those lines, not so much weight. I'm not arguing about this stuff.
 
K2 should do the same thing on the PE cuz that would look sick. Plus, the tip and tail are already curved up pretty high.
 
Dude, are you serious? I'm only posting once and i'm not trying to pick a fight or anything, but your drawing is simply retarded and is going against what you're saying.

1. a moment ski at say, a 180, would be the same length and a rounded-tip ski in a 180... which does not correspond to your drawing, and goes against your statement which i'm quoting.

2. if you were to put those drawing on top of each-other and compare (as stated above), the moment skis would definately show with a greater girth than that of the rounded tips.

3. i don't even know what to think, because your logic is rediculously skewed.

I do believe you are incorrect.

Cheers, mate.
 
its just a drawing from paint, chill out. I didnt take exact measurments and stuff like that, its just an estimate to show that squared tips are basically rounded tips cut off. take it easy.
 
I'm chill yo, i just think it's really funny. "cutting off" round tips would detract from the total length of the ski, in which case the ski would in fact be lighter, but it would be shorter and you couldn't make a realistic comparasin. ;)
 
sure you do. the only thing that has changed in the ski is the shape of the tips, which, yes, technically makes the ski shorter...but from the base contact points (where the tips meet the body of the skis), the dimensions are exactly the same. It has gotten theoretically shorter, but the only noticable difference would be the weight. It would still function exactly the same as a regular, say, 4frnt msp (an example of a generic rounded tip twin-tip), but cosmetically would be different. yea..
 
"Square Tips

– The tips make our skis stand out and add to the overall surface area making it easier to grab. " (From momentskis.com)
 
also for those of you who say the square tips would be heavier, moment skis are light as fuck because of the cores they use, so it's not about the weight but as said above, to stand out, to add more surface area, and for grabs, end discussion
 
If they measure them tip to tail then you'll have more effective edge on a Moment 180 than a regular 180. Go and think about it if you can't figure out what I mean.
 
Different tip shapes do different things. You know LINE's early taper? It's to prevent hooking. Whatever, I'm not here to argue about ski tips. I was wondering about moments square ones, and moment themselves say it's so their skis look dope, so thanks to whoever posted that.
 
square tips are for when you go lean the skis against a wall, they wont fall to one side...

not really though...
 
you may be the dumbest kid on ns. it shouldnt even be an argument. rounded tips have less material than square. take a look at a regular SQUARE, if you CUT OFF all the CORNERS it turns into a CIRCLE.
 
haha seriously. that drawing goes against what he was saying. the worst part is that he knew they would be different lengths. +karma to you. good explanation
 
hahah that argument was amusing..

so think about this. Your a dude who decided to make skis for himself. You show them to your buddies and they're like "Dude you just painted over some rossi's". And then your like shit. How do I prove this? I'll make them look really unique like.. SQUARE TIPS! Now everyone will believe me. Well then a few years down the road all of your buddies want your skis. Then more and more people start hearing about them and wanting them.. then you start selling them.. and then you have a company.. called Moment.. and all the skis have square tips!

Yay for that sick as dude making skis in his shop in Reno Nevada.

 
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