forget shaped carver, forget fat powder ski

[Arrows]

regardless of your frankenskithing

scared of something new? or are you just wondering why you are using a fat ski although it works better with a short one? man I think that this could be a new trend!

[Ripzalot]

scared of something new? or are you just wondering why you are using a fat ski although it works better with a short one? man I think that this could be a new trend!

how the hell did you read that into my post?

i dont give a rats ass either way. show us the rax!

[Tom from Austria]

regardless of your frankenskithing, i think we need to see some pics of this rax mountain.

Grüzzi, Ripzalot !
Rax is a 10 km long plateau with 1000 m vertical drop on most flanks (covered with cliffs and trees).
Gradients varying between 40 and 90 degrees.
There is one cable railway and no groomed piste.
All that looks like the lower two sections of La Grave in France.


Crazy idea to ski the soft avalanche in front ? Never try with any other ski.

Rax ist the site of world’s first mountain rescue service,
launched in 1896 as a reaction on an avalanche catastrophe killing 3 skiers.
Ski grandfather Zdarsky organized first ski school and world’s first slalom 1905
in Lilienfeld 40 km away.
In Ottohaus on the plateau, Sigmund Freud made first investigations supporting his theory.
Next airport 100 km: Vienna, Austria

[Tom from Austria]

... Find your market niche man!

Those damn things are scaring me.

Have already found the market niche man!
It's you and alike.
When enough damned outsiders on these Rax skis showed
you their backs in mogul fields...

[orange]

Yeah Tom.

[filthyfrenchbum]

This looks like it takes every ounce of fun out of skiing. Ok, I can straightline or carve and get shinbangs like never before, but leaning forward at high speeds, carving, and floating and turning in powder are actually highly enjoyable things. And leaning back is a very uncomfortable position, whether you're controlling your skis or not. Plus it must suck for the knees, lower back, and many other muscles and bones.

Good luck though, hopefully you'll find people who like it

[Goatboy]

Thought this looked kinda interesting at first, might be good for nasty tight north-faced springtime colouirs. But that video...

"Short turns in hard and steep conditions", I mean, come ON man !!
And that Rax mtn. Is that IT ?

Goatboy thinks our legs are being pulled here.

[Tom from Austria]

Yeah Tom.

Thanks, Tmorry ! That's all I wanted to hear.

This thing, Tmorry, is real. Although many still hope
that it disapears like a bubble.

[Tom from Austria]

This looks like it takes every ounce of fun out of skiing.... leaning forward at high speeds in powder are actually highly enjoyable things

How can you say that ? You never tried this ski.
We have heard in this thread several stories about "Firngleiter" riders in Austria.
They all DO have fun while using our technique.

Are you really "leaning forward at high speeds in unknown powder" for longer time ? As high speed I understand 60 km/hr or more. Are you ? For a long time ? One minute or so ? Your ski tips deep under the snow ? In a steep terrain of 60 degrees ? Are you ?

[Tom from Austria]

... wouldn't you also get bruised toenails? I've gotten those from leaning back. It's NOT from my boots being to big.

Depends on terrain, stuckathuntermtn.
Thousand powerful turns on very hard slope per day can stress your toenails.
The softer the snow and shorter the ski, the less troubled are your feet.

You can run long distances in Super GS-style and raise ski tips just for critical curves.

Rax models "Firn" and "Extreme Firn" carve permanently, no leaning back required.

And the future model "Glacier" has two gliding surfaces and needs minimum
weight transfer between them.

[Tom from Austria]

Wow. Thats it, I'm on board. I'm getting a pair.

This is an emergency call !

There are no Rax skis available to be distributed as now, just 14 prototypes.

We badly need a simple production site in the U.S!!!

[grrrr]

This is an emergency call !

There are no Rax skis available to be distributed as now, just 14 prototypes.

We badly need a simple production site in the U.S!!!

This is an opportune time for an Obernhard-PMGear partnership.

[Tom from Austria]

This is an opportune time for an Obernhard-PMGear partnership.

Why not, grrrr !
Give me a hint, info@raxski.com

[powder11]

You, Mr funny man, are a hateful fuck and your daddy still wants to slip it in your mouth occasionally

this is about as far as Ive read in this thread, but that is the funniest shit Ive seen in a long while. good one Rich!

[leroy jenkins]

I nominate this thread for the hall of fame.

[Tom from Austria]

I nominate this thread for the hall of fame.

You're joking, leroy.
At the beginning we have created much of controversy.
The lord of destruction and creation, Shiva would be very pleased.

But stay on the positive side, this ski is more secure than others.

[SnowToad]

Cheers to Shiva!!

[Tom from Austria]

Cheers to Shiva!!

Toad is Oracle's tool for writing SQL querries.
Mostly practiced in an office without a view.
Are you software engineer ?

[Tom from Austria]

i am here to post in this potentially historic thread about when a snowlerblade met an erector set

It's not snowlerblade meeting an erector set,
that's an agressive "firngleiter" enhanced by "erection" meaning diagonal setup or assembly.

[Tom from Austria]

Just to show that Rax ski can be even elegant

[Sojourner]

Do you have a monoski model? That way I could tour with it.

[lg]

These things look fucking dangerous, like they could cut someones leg off. What if the binding releases and they fly down the hill and hit someone? I'd be interested in seing them in action though, are there any vids of these ski (can't be bothered to look through the whole thread to find one.

[lg]

Found the vid.
THese things look totally ridiculous

"WOW. Do these come with a full frontal lobotomy? Or do they just beat you with them until you loose your motor skills." haha nice one KungFu Eddie

[PulverSchwein]

here you go brah, have a good laugh at the hottest trend in expressing your inner dork, ripping it on the rax skis

[lg]

Thanks PulverSchwein just looking at that vid again makes me fall off my chair laughing.