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  1. #76
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    Quote Originally Posted by freshie247 View Post
    DO the Village People ass-less chaps come standard,are are they extra?
    C'mon man, chaps are automatically assless. Do you really need to add on the ass-less?
    Jak and Jil skinned up the hill to rip some epic lines...
    Jak cruised down throwing a huge mute 3...
    Followed by Jil with a 9.

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    Quote Originally Posted by crispy4505 View Post
    Congrats,
    You have brought skiing one step closer to figure skating....

    On a more serious note, I see no real use for these skis except in a ski school application where you are teaching uncoordinated old farts how to carve for the first time. There is one flaw that can never be over come with innovation in little skis, and that is stability, whether its landing jumps or just plain old speed. After owning snow blades for a day i can officially say you either land on your ass or your face if are not perfectly centered on the snow blades.

    Good luck to you, i think you can make some money with these with the right business strategy and marketing plan.
    They don't even work as a learning tool because they teach you to be in the backseat.

  3. #78
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    Quote Originally Posted by pbourdon View Post
    Tom are you going to make a snowboard version of the RAX? I too wanna ...rely solely on some fins for my control, leaving everything else up to fate..
    Yeah, pbourdon,
    monoski and sqwal with rear fins
    would bomb everything down.
    We are just lacking raw material to build it.

    I was told that an early version of snowboard got some surfboard-like fins.
    extreme carver is experimenting with very deep cut-out
    swallow tails.

  4. #79
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    what happens when one of those metal skegs hits some rock under all that fresh snow?

    Bet it don't slide like polyethylene.

  5. #80
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chainsaw_Willie View Post
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    Seems like these are designed to help intermediate or beginner on-piste only skiers overcome their fears of challenging terrain. Not a bad idea really (though teaching them proper form and technique would be better),...

    I'd ski anything I saw in your videos on my 183 Gotamas ...faster and in better control ....
    What a hell is PROPER form??
    Never heard that world is ever changing?

    I wish I could face your 183 Gotamas in front of me
    in some steep and narrow chute.
    Heavily jump-turning....

  6. #81
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    Quote Originally Posted by lobstahmeatwad View Post
    what happens when one of those metal skegs hits some rock under all that fresh snow?
    ...
    The ski tail gets a kick
    making ski tips knock the snow surface
    and you are still standing and wondering
    what has happened.

    Hard to believe if you never skied on shorties
    over bumps and tracks.
    This is the physics pure speaking to us.

  7. #82
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    Of all spamming, this is truly the most annoying in the meantime.

    Do us all a favor, quit bumping your shit up all the time and get lost. Seriously.

  8. #83
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    Quote Originally Posted by tSki View Post
    i still cant believe this isnt a joke
    Just quiet, this is one.
    The group of jokers is growing steadily.

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    Quote Originally Posted by schuss View Post
    So when/where are the demos?
    In New Hampshire and Vermont from Mar 13 to Mar 23.
    We are based in Franconia /Mt.Cannon
    but are to visit many resorts around.
    Waiting for your input.

    Will inform you on this forum about next days program.

    Bring your ski boots and ride Rax skis for few hours free!

  10. #85
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    Quote Originally Posted by JimLad View Post
    ..Raxski lets you shred EXTREME terrain that you can't on traditional skis. The video proves that.
    John, I can`t wait skiing at your home, Whistler.
    Yours Tom

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    Quote Originally Posted by lobstahmeatwad View Post
    ha! snowlerblades for snowboarders
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    Definitely best for snowboarders
    hating all traditional skis, ski schools, experts and alike

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hugh Jürgen View Post
    When we find Jesse in the Alps, will he be on a pair of these?
    Hugh, I don`t know Jesse
    but I will do all possible and impossible
    to bring him (and others)
    a pair of these.

  13. #88
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pierre LeCouloir View Post
    THAT'S HOW I LIKE THEM!!!

    Wait . . . are we talking about skis?
    No, we are not
    but we are talking

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    My brain hurts.
    Quote Originally Posted by Alkasquawlik View Post
    So there I was McGoverning down the mountain but I McConkeyed the hell out of a Morrison and landed on my Harrisons. Just then I Skogened off a Tuffelmire but hit my McMurray into a Holmes. As I came to the Burke I Steele Spenced over a Moles and stopped on a Krietler. Then I saw Gaffney, and then two Gaffneys, but they Moseleyed me into a Hall. So I said, "Pep!!" and Saged on out of that Thovex.
    Poetry, on motion.

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    Quote Originally Posted by crispy4505 View Post
    ...I see no real use for these skis except in a ski school application where you are teaching uncoordinated old farts how to carve ...
    Amen....

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    Quote Originally Posted by GapersGoHome View Post
    My brain hurts.
    Very good,
    hurt brain is the mother of invention !

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    I'm sorry, but from a purely engineering viewpoint, I fail to see what you are offering. Excuse my following rant, but I had to drink some Macallan 12yr to make some shelf space....

    With a traditional ski, when the skier initiates a turn by inducing roll angle into the ski, a point load (skier weight) is applied to the ski between the 'fixed' points touching the snow; the tip and tail. This applied load causes the ski to flex, causing the ski to elastically deform, allowing the ski to carve the turn. With your design, you are essentially compensating for the removal of the tail by using fins - but in a less mechanically efficient manner. From the video evidence above, I don't see any advantage to this setup over a slalom/GS ski in those snow conditions. Also, as pointed out above - you loose stability and force skiers weight to the 'back seat'.

    Regarding powder conditions, you mention the ski is 130mm wide. While this girth would be overly sufficient for a 'normal' length ski, you fail to see the simple aspect which keeps a skier afloat in powder conditions: surface area. And with this design, there is too large an offset between the ski center of floatation and skier's center of gravity. So, I'm going to go out on a limb here and make a bold claim by saying these will be the suck in powder.

    But I wish you the best of luck in your endeavors.

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    Would it be possible for me to "float test" these?
    A woman reported to police at 6:30 p.m. that she was being "smart-mouthed."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scotia902 View Post
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    1).. from a purely engineering viewpoint, I fail to see what you are offering
    2)... causing the ski to elastically deform, allowing the ski to carve the turn.
    3) ...using fins - but in a less mechanically efficient manner.
    4) ... you loose stability
    5)Regarding powder conditions,... there is too large an offset between the ski center of floatation and skier's center of gravity.
    6) ...a bold claim by saying these will be the suck in powder.
    1) You are in the best society. Patent engineers told me that the only way to turn Rax skis is to stop and lay the skis in the new direction
    2) You are describing the carve turn. The base of typical Rax ski is a short carver so it must be able to carve as a short carver.
    3) Why, the fin is less efficient than the edge ? Wonder why boats and planes are using fins. Is a boat rim not enough?
    5) Here you are forgetting the dynamic component: you are skiing down the slope !
    4) and 6) Do you really think I would ever start this campaign if this were true

    Wish you to have opportunity of testing Rax skis.
    Answers come automatically then.

  20. #95
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    Quote Originally Posted by 2nd mate View Post
    Would it be possible for me to "float test" these?
    Yes, just meet us in powder or at least soft snow.

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    Tom is saving skiing, just like snowboarding did. WAKE UP FOOLS!!

    Good work Tom.

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    Tom, watch this, where are these clowns now? I give you the same odds of success. We used to taunt these guys in the liftline. Me "free your feet" snowboarding friends "free your hands".
    Would love to see someone in Dodges this spring doing the straight line thing at 1:20 in first video.[from Hojos with binocs]




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    Rax are incredibly strange
    don't look all that stable
    unusual promotion as well
    why so many quatrains

    I'm sure I'd kill myself
    Scotia nailed it
    I'm of open mind
    find me a demo day

    Hitting any NY mountains any time soon? Where/when for VT?
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    It is like Days of Our Lives', but with retards.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dumpy View Post
    Rax are incredibly strange
    don't look all that stable
    unusual promotion as well
    why so many quatrains

    I'm sure I'd kill myself
    Scotia nailed it
    I'm of open mind
    find me a demo day

    Hitting any NY mountains any time soon? Where/when for VT?
    You are the first Rax poet, dumpy !
    A Rax philosopher named Gandhi appeared on TGR in Jan 2008.
    Please send me PM proposing where/when should we come to VT between Mar14 and Mar23.

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    Tom, four pages were funny but you are competing with Thiefs that fled the country to Canada, plows hitting eachother, and TR's from a rapidly improving winter.

    I'd suggest two things:

    Get a set of these to Marshalson, the resident ski tester. I'm sure he'd shelve some moments for these on an epic powder day.

    Get freaky-deaky euro babes (with shaved pits) running these topless on a bump run

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