Why did skis ever have just one tip?

derbski

derbski

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I mean seriously? I just smoked a bowl and that question came to me, why did anybody ever decide "yeah, lets have one side tipped up so you can move that way, but lets make the other flat" ? Clearly (as seen in anybody's favorite ski movie) you can take just about any terrain from backcountry to park with twin tips as you can with classic style skis.
 
oh and just throwing this out there, I realize the possibility that this is a really dumb question, but I am chopped and don't really care.
 
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dumbfuck I was saying I don't care if it was a dumb question. Get more than 20 posts here before you talk shit.
 
Because skis were originally invented to get down a mountain as quickly and safely as possible and I'm pretty sure they weren't too worried about going backwards when they were using them to hunt wolves and shit.
 
Because they probably didn't invent a new ski when it became recreational.
Also even these days people think you are going to crash into someone skiing backwards, 200 years ago it probably didn't even cross peoples minds. Plus you can actually ski backwards pretty well even without a tip in the back, I learned to ski switch on regular carving skis. So I'm sure people just didn't see a need if they could still go backwards to fuck around anyway but weren't spending lots of time doing it or doing any dangerous maneuvers switch.
 
i love thinking about weird shit when im stoned it seems legit at the time but the real question is why didnt they keep the twin tip back when olin made one
 
planks = starting point...
you only wanna go forward cuz caveman didn't invented the switch yet...making a tip for your planks requires effort, and since cavemen only ski forward they only needed tips on one side of the ski. So why would cavemen go through the trouble of adding another tip??
 
when i started skiing, freestyle skiing was almost taboo. except aerials and mogul combos, there were strict guidelines on how skiing should look and be done. freestyle was prevented for years. and the snowboard was not embraced in anyway, only because the snowboard came about, do we have our free style.

its still being prevented today, in a couple of years there will be a thread, why did we jib in racing boots?
 
im hoping the thread will be something more like...

'why were so many people so awful at actual skiing that we needed completely upright boots with two buckles to ski park in?'
 
this. when u carve, the tail on a twin tends to want to slide out. with single tips you can carve much tighter turns, hence why the slalom racers dont use twins.
 
im pretty sure skiing was not all about tom wallisch hundreds of years ago and people weren't spinning like tops on rails and making shit look super gay.
thats why skiing didn't have twin tips back in the day.
 
Because "racing" boots let you ski correctly. Just because a boot feels like a slipper and stops shinbang doesn't make it a good boot. The SPK's are teaching a whole generation of park skiers to ski incorrectly.
 
not a myth. they make beginner skis with a mid twin tip tail because it releases the edge easier thus making it easier to make carves
 
I'm guessing that the earliest skis were probably just boards, but they nosedived in deep snow, so someone looked at a sled and said "lets curve em up".

necessity is the mother of invention, and in ancient snowy-ass hunter-gatherer norway, nobody needed to ski switch. they just needed to get where they were going.
 
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