Pontoons or Hellbents

Madens/Jps = pow specific skis = too soft to really charge on. Not that they wouldn't work, they're just on the floppy side of ideal.
 
Yeah they are sloppy, the 188s were a nice change for me tho, i could charge harder.
 
Mmmm, I agree. However, a floppy ski is kinda what I like to ride all mountain anyways. Fun for park, fun for just messing around, but still large and in charge enough to blast through crusts and crud and magnificent in powder. I love em. I only wish I could try the rockered pro model ones...
 
Uh... I sold a few pairs of Seths this year and they sure didn't feel rockered to me. Have I gone insane? I think it's more likely that you're just wrong and they're not.
 
Next years seths have a slight rockered tip....

From jibijs website:

"...The 98mm waist, mini rocker, and progressive sidecut make it a force to be reckone..."
 
I've never ridden pontoons, but hellbents are okay on hardpack. They're very soft and tend to chatter through high speed turns in any snow that's less than an inch deep (ie. all groomers). The 08 seths are much more stable on piste, and the 07 seths are even more stable. If there's not more than a foot or two of powder, seths work fine for me. But in deep pow, hellbents are fun.

 
Seths have a mini-rocker, dunno whats up with that. They really arent Seths signature ski anymore, are they?
 
well they are the main ski he rides. so yes I guess they are. not sure how much input he has on the design though. but he is stoked on it for sure
 
mini rocker is a, uh, a mini rocker. Not completely reverse like bents, like half way to regular camber?
 
they're slightly rockered in the tip. It's not much. The only thing you really notice is they don't tip dive quite as much as older seth models. For all practical purposes, they're not really rockered, just softer.
 
Dude, no way, Seth rode on rockered Madens in like all the ski movies of 06. I have no idea what he rode this year, but being at home in the BC and since he was on the rocker boat last year, I'd suspect Hellbents most of the time.
 
In the K2 forums he said that was because that was the only 07 graphic he had at the time. I feel like an idiot for knowing all this stuff after reading JD's post in the Nazi thread though
 
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