Rockered skis, edge tuning

ripcity

ripcity

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Hey I just picked up a pair of hellbents, super jacked for them, but I am wondering what to tune my edges to. Not sure if there is a different degree people like to set their edges to for rockered and reverse camber sticks compared to the regular guys. Any suggestions would be awesome! thanks alot
 
With a rockered ski, if the edge is never going to be used like in a turn, I say detune it. The rockered spots on my live life 2s are as round as possible, makes butters and all so much better and when your tips knock together it doesnt chip the topsheets up. With hellbents I'm sure it's a little different because of the curved rocker and not a 8 degree kink, but I would for sure detune at least the tip/tail area and 4-6 inches in towards the binding on both ends.
 
Thats what my shop did when they tuned my hellbents, i havnt ridden them yet, but the tips and tails are way rounded out. At first i was thinking they suck an then i realized what they did and thought that it will be great.
 
I just never tuned mine... au natural and all that, haha. Worked well enough, they got realllll fun on the groomers, effortless sideways action.
 
rockered skis can still have regular camber underfoot, so basically you have regular camber underfoot but with a very early rise, so when you hold em together, base to base, the middle will be touching and then in front and behind the bindings the skis will be bending away from eachother.
Reverse camber skis have no oldschool camber whatsoever, they're completely banana shaped...So if you hold the together it will be like holding 2"bananas" back to back against eachother, so you have a very small contact point...
correct me if i'm wrong or unclear...
and to stay on topic: i don't think theres any need to tune your edges where they're rockered, maybe just underfoot if you plan on carving them...otherwise i'd just let them be the way they are, rubbing a gummy stone over the edges once in a while to keep rust away...
 
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I was noticing, he still has the ski straps on... so i could be wrong but wouldn't that not give it an acurate representation of what the camber is really like?
 
like someone said up there ^^^ detune the rockered tip/tail theres no point in tuning them, they arent gonna touch snow so id say maybe minimal tuning under foot and just round out the tips/tails for butters and whatnot. seem like a sick ski though, what binding do you have on them?
 
yeah, but consider when you're standing on groomers the regular camber thats underfoot gets flattened out anyways, keeping the straps on gives you an idea what the ski will be shaped like when a person stands on it + it brings out the rocker, camber and reverse camber difference even more...
but thats just my idea, maybe it wasn't supposed to be like that but it doesn't do any harm to the accuracy/correctness (?) of the techtalk ...
 


Thanks for the suggestions, definitely helpful. and to LMPJibbin, I put a pair of Salomon s 9 14's on them from back in the racing days. Enjoy the pow!
 
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