Romarius
02.03.2009, 22:49
<p>der Erfinder des kommenden Sportgerätsdes Jahrtausend stellt sich mal wieder vor:</p>
<p>der neue Powderrax!</p>
<p>'Imagine that your ski can surf down the powder slope<br /> like a surfboard.<br /> Imagine that your ski can skate down the hard trail<br /> as it got short metal skids (or fins) cutting in the snow<br /> just behind your ski boots.<br /> Imagine that your ski can track and turn better<br /> than any other ski you are passing by.<br /> <br /> <img src='http://members.aon.at/edvsyste/DSC00939.JPG' border='0' alt='' /><br /> <br /> Very first prototypes of the strange 'ski with fin-control'<br /> emerged on TGR forum in last winter.<br /> We called them 'Rax skis' to honor their Austrian birth place.<br /> <br /> Heavy discussions on all big European ski/board forums followed then.<br /> As a result Rax skis have been further developed to improve user comfort<br /> and to ease the operation. Fins were moved forward, closer to the ski boots<br /> in order to minimize the effort needed to press the fins in any hard surface.<br /> Rax skis got much wider to promote fast surfing. <br /> <br /> Recent models are hand-made wooden cores with all-metal extensions.<br /> Yet the original recycling idea (cutting off used skis<br /> and mounting one-piece extensions on them) was not given up.<br /> <br /> <br /> <img src='http://members.aon.at/edvsyste/DSC00977X.JPG' border='0' alt='' /><br /> <br /> The function of metal fins:<br /> A) <br /> When skier executes a carve turn<br /> the right or the left side-wall fin starts cutting the hard snow,<br /> such working as a functional extension of the ski edge<br /> and preventing ski tail from skidding away.<br /> Side-wall fins help accelerate the carve turn or modify dynamically<br /> its radius when skier transfers his weight forward or backward.<br /> B)<br /> Raising ski tips presses the center fin in the hard surface<br /> and lets skier 'skate down the slope' close to the fall-line.<br /> This is a new type of ski control. We call it 'raxing'.<br /> At any moment it can be combined with carve, skidded and jump turns<br /> or even plowing. <br /> C)<br /> All 3 fins as well as the swallow-tail automatically cut in snow<br /> and control the direction and speed when surfing down powder or other soft snow.<br /> <br /> <img src='http://members.aon.at/edvsyste/DSC00891.JPG' border='0' alt='' /><br /> <br /> More than 250 Europeans have tried out Rax skis up to now: snowboarders,<br /> backcountry experts, adult beginners, orthodox carvers, ski acrobats.<br /> Childern and those who never left prepared piste before could suddenly ski <br /> natural snow.<br /> Unlike many adults, kids do not feel ashamed of wearing non-conform skis.<br /> <br /> <br /> Rax skis are coming to USA now.<br /> You are welcome to test this Austrian invention<br /> or to become a member of hard-core RaxRiders.<br /> <br /> Our first stop is New Hampshire and Vermont <br /> from Mar 13 to Mar 23. <br /> Ice Coast and all your beautiful trees and glades: we like you !'</p>
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<p><a href='http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/showthread.php?t=153043' target='_blank'>Link.</a> Den Typen gibts wirklich, 3 Kollegen haben ihn schon getroffen. Bei Interesse könnt ich nochmal suchen und ein Bild von ihm verlinken...</p>
<p>der neue Powderrax!</p>
<p>'Imagine that your ski can surf down the powder slope<br /> like a surfboard.<br /> Imagine that your ski can skate down the hard trail<br /> as it got short metal skids (or fins) cutting in the snow<br /> just behind your ski boots.<br /> Imagine that your ski can track and turn better<br /> than any other ski you are passing by.<br /> <br /> <img src='http://members.aon.at/edvsyste/DSC00939.JPG' border='0' alt='' /><br /> <br /> Very first prototypes of the strange 'ski with fin-control'<br /> emerged on TGR forum in last winter.<br /> We called them 'Rax skis' to honor their Austrian birth place.<br /> <br /> Heavy discussions on all big European ski/board forums followed then.<br /> As a result Rax skis have been further developed to improve user comfort<br /> and to ease the operation. Fins were moved forward, closer to the ski boots<br /> in order to minimize the effort needed to press the fins in any hard surface.<br /> Rax skis got much wider to promote fast surfing. <br /> <br /> Recent models are hand-made wooden cores with all-metal extensions.<br /> Yet the original recycling idea (cutting off used skis<br /> and mounting one-piece extensions on them) was not given up.<br /> <br /> <br /> <img src='http://members.aon.at/edvsyste/DSC00977X.JPG' border='0' alt='' /><br /> <br /> The function of metal fins:<br /> A) <br /> When skier executes a carve turn<br /> the right or the left side-wall fin starts cutting the hard snow,<br /> such working as a functional extension of the ski edge<br /> and preventing ski tail from skidding away.<br /> Side-wall fins help accelerate the carve turn or modify dynamically<br /> its radius when skier transfers his weight forward or backward.<br /> B)<br /> Raising ski tips presses the center fin in the hard surface<br /> and lets skier 'skate down the slope' close to the fall-line.<br /> This is a new type of ski control. We call it 'raxing'.<br /> At any moment it can be combined with carve, skidded and jump turns<br /> or even plowing. <br /> C)<br /> All 3 fins as well as the swallow-tail automatically cut in snow<br /> and control the direction and speed when surfing down powder or other soft snow.<br /> <br /> <img src='http://members.aon.at/edvsyste/DSC00891.JPG' border='0' alt='' /><br /> <br /> More than 250 Europeans have tried out Rax skis up to now: snowboarders,<br /> backcountry experts, adult beginners, orthodox carvers, ski acrobats.<br /> Childern and those who never left prepared piste before could suddenly ski <br /> natural snow.<br /> Unlike many adults, kids do not feel ashamed of wearing non-conform skis.<br /> <br /> <br /> Rax skis are coming to USA now.<br /> You are welcome to test this Austrian invention<br /> or to become a member of hard-core RaxRiders.<br /> <br /> Our first stop is New Hampshire and Vermont <br /> from Mar 13 to Mar 23. <br /> Ice Coast and all your beautiful trees and glades: we like you !'</p>
<p> </p>
<p><a href='http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/showthread.php?t=153043' target='_blank'>Link.</a> Den Typen gibts wirklich, 3 Kollegen haben ihn schon getroffen. Bei Interesse könnt ich nochmal suchen und ein Bild von ihm verlinken...</p>