No more blue steeles!

nskerb

nskerb

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so i was skiing at meadows a couple weeks ago and i saw my coach on on3ps with all the workers except scott... rowen the co owner or sumthin was on these skis for 2012 called the filthy rich. these skis are pretty cool they got these super stealth tips but rocker to clear stuff they are pretty sick but not as cool as the BS, he told me thatt the blue steele was being discontinoud for these i was pretty bummed
 
some of this is new to me actually so thanks. sounds pretty interesting. you wouldnt happen to know what sizes they will be coming in would you?
 
yeah curious abut this as well. ill need a new park ski to replace my blue steeles from this year and thinking these, gbutters, or moment vices. just need some more info on these though first
 
there is a video that was posted by the on3p guys that had the topsheets in it. i had the chance to ski these skis a little over a month ago and they were very fun.
 
yeah, edge is pulling out from the top. im making a summer set up and will be skiing it a lot over the summer so i figure ill bash the hell out of them anyways. i have money but nothing to spend it on, so thats also how i justify buying new skis haha
 
More gradual elliptical rocker on the replacement ski, longer rocker, different sidecut profile that works with the rocker to allow you to carve sharper turns the more you heel it over, way better for carving off jumps than the Blue Steele. Its been designed from the start with rocker in mind, allowed us to try out some ideas and we're happy with the way it works.

Sizes and specs will be released in May, cant say much yet because we're still getting feedback from our riders and playing around with stuff.
 
That sounds sooo sick. Im glad the rocker is goig to be more gradual and long rather than short and abrupt on my blue steeles. If its a 87-92 waist, symmetrical and

medium flex I will be beyond stoked
 
a 185-187cm, 92 mm underfoot, symmetrical, with rocker. would be the ultimate park ski for us giants
 
probably wouldnt sell to a large enough group to be very successful. And park skis get noodly really easily if they get too long.
 
im 5' 9" 148 lbs and ride 181 j mos and they are perfect for all mountain but I would like something a little shorter and easier to throw around for my park skis. man up? haha im sick of everybody thinking they are "real men" because they ride skis half a foot over their head.
 
No, it makes you extremely trendy. Sure if your going stupid big you need the larger skis, but most of us on here are just hitting 25-40 foot jumps and sliding some rails. If we are doing pipe we are going below 8 feet out max. It doesn't make you a man to constantly ride the longest ski they make regardless of your height.
 
Then get the jmo.

I want a ski that slays park super hard. Its a park ski its supposed to ski park not all mtn.

Also lower rocker is better than abrupt rocker for skiing pow.
 
its a dedicated park ski, its not designed to be skied out of the park, thats what jmos are for.
 
Elliptical rocker is going on the Cease and Desist, Billy Goat, Pillowfight... everything we've tried it on so far we like more than the old rocker. Its different and skis need to be designed a little around it, but its sooooo good in variable snow its redic, you just feel so stable on edge, you dont get that hookey feel that some rockered skis give you.
 
Not really sure who you talked to about the skis but the filthy rich skis WAY better outside the park than the blue steele. Not even a contest between the two.

Inside the park, it is a bit less playful but way way more stable and solid. It carves off jumps way better and is significantly more solid on landing and take off of big hits.
 
im going to guess its going to be something like the shape of the 2012's. just my guess when i think long gradual rocker
 
Sure! Its easiest to think of this as an equation actually. Put the ski on a graph so that the origin is where the rocker starts in the side profile.

Classical rocker, at least for us, had the rocker emerge from the ski at an angle (say, like the equation y=x/4 or something), and then after a distance you would have a set tip curve.

Elliptical is just that, its an ellipse. It gradually turns sharper and sharper. If we're talking tip shape, its like the lower right quadrant of the ellipse in this picture.

ellipse.jpg


So the theres no real point where the rocker stops and the tip shape starts, they just slow into each other, and the rocker starts very gradually, so theres no hard point on the ski, making it way more stable since everything just transitions into the shape, instead of abruptly.

Theres way more behind this, but I dont want to give too much away.
 
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