Rockered Park Riding- Pep Fujas prophesy?

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I copied this straight from Pep's bio on the "Idea" movie site and thought it was interesting. Is this the direction of progression? Check it out and comment.

p.s. as a disclaimer, kids who suck should NOT try jibbing on a pair of Volant Spatulas, or rockered skis after reading this, you'll end up on an episode of Scarred.

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Friday, January 19, 2007

Rockered Park Riding

Rockered park riding is the future. I'm talking prophecy yet I wouldn't have know it without having the pleasure of testing it first hand. I know I am one of the select few who have been able to ride park with rockered boards and I have to share this experience. It's hard to start to share all the doors that have opened up with this technology. Here are a few doors: Nose presses in the middle half of the ski, with bent knees. Butters where you can control the speed of which you rotate while being able to pop at any moment and control your direction. If you get off balance on a rail or landing, revert around or turn off the rail without catching your tips. This is just a tid bit to think about. The picture I posted is not a crash. Rockered park riding...BOOYAH!
 
I guess I should have known, I just joined a few days ago. Anyway, I still want to know what people think about it.
 
that would be very conveniant for buttering

but not a really big rocker. just a slight one, enough to get up high on your tips and tails.
 
Thats a shot of pep form the X games on the hellbents, but never the less a good shot. rocker is where its going!!!!
 
It is a shot of pep on the 4th jump in the Crown at PC mid way through the season. And I ski pontoons in the park, nothing wrong with those. But I only get 2-4 free runs a day so i'm in no hurry to mount my park skis back up.
 
I'm headed for my first session with rockered park skis tomorrow--just got em mounted today. I'll let you know what I think.....Praxis skis out of Tahoe will be selling rockered park skis for next season....as soon as Keith gets his act together
 
my rough translation of the pep interview on NSradio:

MrB: So pep do you actually ski on your pro model (talking about the fujis, obviously, and the fact pep rarely gets seen on them these days)?

Pep: Well yeah, actually I've been skiing loads of park recently so I get a fair bit of use out of them.

It seemed pretty weird to me after reading what pep had said on the idea website and that he'd just been preaching to MrB about rockered skis. No disrespect to pep, I just think maybe he doesn't wanna upset k2 because obviously they wanna keep selling fujis, or they are trying to market hell bents to kids that don't need them. Would have been cool if MrB had asked.
 
I think what he meant by the "rockered park riding is the future" thing was "in the future you'll see kids doing really cool butters and grinds with because of the new abilities that rockered skis offer" and "rockered skis kill it in the backcountry." The fact remains that rockered skis are pretty hard to jump with in the park, and lack of speed is a major problem on groomed snow. I have a pair of Hellbents, and to be honest, they aren't very good on jumps. But they're amazing for landing sw in powder. But I'd ride Fujatives over Hellbents any day for overall park riding.
 
i completely agree. i own fujatives, and had a chance to ride a pair of hellbents for a while, and yeah, they're super easy to butter with, but i can butter with the fujatives just as easily. and yeah, hitting jumps with them is kinda scary, since you just slide all over the place. i dont really feel that i'm gonna be jumping on the rockered ski bandwagon any time soon, at least for park riding.
 
^ Rockered skis are where the tip and tail sections have reversed camber so they excel in powder but do not touch on hard pack. So they kind of look like a bannana but they have a flat running surface in the middle. Its kind of hard to explain google it for a picture or something.
 
I 100% agree with this. Folks have been rising rockered skis in the park long before there were dedicated rockered park skis
 
how the...why do you people insist on bumping old threads lol

but yeah, pep called this shit. dunno if it's "the future" or the only way to ride park now, I still much prefer a little camber, but I love me some width fasho. stability kicks ass
 
accept camber is what gives skiers pop. Camber also absorbs a little bit of the landings. i thought about this alot and it would be fun for a day but probably just day.
 
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