Those skis aren't bent.....

no, camber is the contact point to contact point concave on the base. It provides pop and more responsive movement. Reverse camber is if the base was convex, thus making the base convex from contact point to contact point.

Those are definatly reverse camber, I have seen pics of Seth and Benchetler using them. Even if they are just being "held at an angle", the contact points would touch, wouldn't they? unless it was reverse camber.....
 
k, in powder the ski is always flexing, sagging if you will. so when you have a ski with lots of camber and you're in powder, the tips want to push downwards into the snow.

in order to decrease this pressure pushing the tips down, you give the ski negative camber, so it sits with the tips bent up wanting to climb to the surface without the skis natural camber fighting that. powder and hardpack are very different, thats why all these crazy designs have been coming out of mconkey lately.
 
Yeah the pic wouldn't load for me up untill now so yeah i was slightly wrong the whole eam could ave emm.
 
Exactly.

Camber is not the same as sidecut...and thus reverse camber is not the same as reverse sidecut. A ski can have a normal sidecut but reverse camber (like those bent K2s).

I guess reverse sidecut with normal camber wouldn't work though...:)

 
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