What if someone added suspension springs under footbeds? It would work kinda like mountain bike suspension. You would need a taller foot part of the ski boot, with a really stiff footbed, and a stiff spring under the footbed. The spring would be stiff enough to not compress much during regular skiing, but it would compress after landing a big huck. That way skiers would be able to stomp hucks that normally require hot tubbing without breaking their feet/legs, and would be able to stomp hucks that normally require 2 feet of pow even when it hasn't snowed in weeks. Why has the free market not produced this yet?
Suspension Ski Boots
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Chron_Rabbit
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sounds like cheating
STEEZUS_CHRI5T
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Your body needs to be able to transfer energy to your skis immediately. A suspension system would make for delayed, unresponsive riding. This would not be practical for high level skiing.
SuckleBrick
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for touring it can work
e.will
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This is one of the things that ski camber provides. You're referring to hard snow suspension, which as someone mentioned, can't work in the boot because it would delay response.
Go ski a directional ski with 12 mm of camber vs. your clapped out park ski from 3 years ago that's gone way flat. That directional ski will be wayyy less harsh.
In pow, the snow becomes the suspension system, hence why you feel fine hitting cliffs with flatter landings, land soft, etc. There was a time when flat camber/reverse camber was all the rage, and everyone said, "you can still rip on hardpack!" which is certainly true -- but anytime you hit an air to a flat landing it felt like a bomb going off underneath you're toes.
Go ski a directional ski with 12 mm of camber vs. your clapped out park ski from 3 years ago that's gone way flat. That directional ski will be wayyy less harsh.
In pow, the snow becomes the suspension system, hence why you feel fine hitting cliffs with flatter landings, land soft, etc. There was a time when flat camber/reverse camber was all the rage, and everyone said, "you can still rip on hardpack!" which is certainly true -- but anytime you hit an air to a flat landing it felt like a bomb going off underneath you're toes.
STEEZUS_CHRI5T
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This is all I keep picturing
