#AUTOTURN ROCKER SKI PLUS#
#AUTOTURN ROCKER SKI PROFESSIONAL#

In order to understand this, we have to recognize that there are two main elements of rocker: the rocker height which is how far off the ground the tip or tail of the ski is, and the rocker aggression which is how far in from the tip or tail of the ski towards the center, that the convex rocker exists. The float that rocker provides come from where the snow makes contact with the ski (Shane McConkey hypothesized all of this, and gave a fantastic demo when he slid his way down an Alaskan Spine on a pair of water skis shaped as a reverse camber ski would look like today). At Folsom, we refer to rocker as the versatility of a ski, because rocker increases how well a ski can float and how much easier it makes it to initiate a turn. While tip and tail rocker is generally used in conjunction with camber, some skis even go as far as to only use rocker with no camber at all, which is typically known as вЂњReverse CamberвЂќ or вЂњFull RockerвЂќ вЂ“ they mean the same thing. These days youвЂ™ll see nearly every ski on the mountain has some version of tip and tail rocker. Where camber is the concave section of a ski, the rocker is the convex portion.

#AUTOTURN ROCKER SKI PLUS#

It allows the ski to use as much effective edge as it can, plus it gives fantastic precision and response on icy or firm conditions. For skis that will see a lot of time on hardpack snow, or are used as an all-mountain ski, youвЂ™ll generally want camber to a certain degree. Ultimately, the goal of camber is to allow a skier to generate power from turn to turn, much like a compressed spring would. Camber inherently pushes the contact points of a ski out to where the section of camber ends. The easiest way to understand rocker and camber is to imagine that youвЂ™re looking at a ski directly from the side, as it lies flat on a surface.Д¬amber is the concave shape that a ski has which lifts the center of the ski off of the snow. Older straight skis (although sometimes new such as our TRN TEKвЂ™s) had only ever known the term вЂњcamberвЂќ. In order to understand what rocker is and what itвЂ™s ideally used for, we must first understand camber. Rocker was a term that was entirely foreign, and completely backwards from what ski design in the days of yore was focused on.

#AUTOTURN ROCKER SKI PROFESSIONAL#

Professional skier Shane McConkey was known for pushing the boundaries of skiing in all forms of the sport, and in 2006, there was brand new technology available on the ski market. Up until about a decade ago, rocker was virtually unheard of in ski design.

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