Rax Ski Demo Day

**crispy4505** · 03-26-2009, 12:44 PM

Originally Posted by maskinut

Those woods shots are all inbound @ Stowe. Some off Gondolier and some off the quad/double and they do not suck. Also skied some of the skiers right near the waterfall on Sunday. Wind had whipped 8 inches of so into the lee side. You can get in there right off the top of the gondola. Tree are tight though in that section.

PM me if you want to get more detail.

very nice, that chute seems sweet. I was skiing the woods between liftline and starr on sunday. nice to see there are a decent amount of stowe skiers on here.

**jetski** · 03-26-2009, 12:46 PM

Wow, I still was holding on that this was an elaborate hoax. I will now accept the fact that rax skis will sweep the nation.
Wouldn't a finely tuned snowblade accomplish the same thing in the tight icy trees?
Good on those guys for wading through the hate and trying to change the face of skiing. Why bother here though? There are way better forums for raxy spam.
Maybe it will work for out east but us western skiers have such massive cocks we would only use a fat rax that would be wider than it would be long. Some thing along the lines of 99-340-99 would work nicely.
Way to get after the melt freeze rax riders. As long as your having fun. Just understand that it looks weird and skiers can be snobs. Good riddence...I mean Luck!

**mtsprings** · 03-26-2009, 12:59 PM

I am holding out for the monorax.

**ex-powderbroker** · 03-26-2009, 02:23 PM

yup, the east coast sucks so badly I was just about to write a letter to the hospital i was born at to complain.

**jumpturn** · 03-26-2009, 04:08 PM

Originally Posted by reganized

I don't think anyone in northern VT was skiing woods on 3-21 except for the Rax crew.

Maybe they were in NH skiing this that day

If you're getting into the spirit of this thread, be sure not to miss more fun with Tom from Austria and his posse here: Yes we can change...sex (Rax ski 2009)

**maskinut** · 03-27-2009, 06:23 AM

The Rax skis will be taking a trip to tuckerman's this spring. They won't be the only skis I lug up for sure but they will get some 40 degree testing. Perhaps I can find someone at lunch rocks who will take them off the headwall. Are you that guy?

RIP Saucer Boy- You showed us how to push the limits of small skis.

http://www.skinet.com/general/2008-0...k-returns-dead

**rvski** · 03-27-2009, 11:03 AM

Funny, this sounded like a ski review. to bad it can't be because all the ski reviews are in Tech Talk. sigh

**TyWebb** · 03-27-2009, 11:51 AM

Originally Posted by Goatski

your quiver just got a bit queerer

pretty funneh

**Tom from Austria** · 03-27-2009, 02:04 PM

Originally Posted by jetski

...
Wouldn't a finely tuned snowblade accomplish the same thing in the tight icy trees?

No, never.
However magically tuned a SNOWBLADE might be,
it DOESN`T TRACK ON BUMPY HARD SLOPE.

Jetski, when you ride in a brutal way,
the Rax metal fins are really ripping
the rough ice. Rax ski can be roaring then.
Snowlerblade can just stroke the ground.

**TeleThor** · 03-27-2009, 02:25 PM

Originally Posted by Tom from Austria

No, never.
However magically tuned a SNOWBLADE might be,
it DOESN`T TRACK ON BUMPY HARD SLOPE.

Jetski, when you ride in a brutal way,
the Rax metal fins are really ripping
the rough ice. Rax ski can be roaring then.
Snowlerblade can just stroke the ground.

Was this supposed to be some lame rax poem?

**Tom from Austria** · 03-27-2009, 03:45 PM

Originally Posted by mtsprings

I am holding out for the monorax.

Me too!
Monoskis with Rax metal fins behind the boots.

You know the logo of Derby de la Meije
showing Xavier Duret riding down very steep chute
while standing like a candle on a horizontal monoski.
His monoski is scratching the ground with its tail.
Looks like a very long "Firngleiter"
or a long RaxSki without fins.

Let's make monorax together.

**Tom from Austria** · 04-04-2009, 01:25 PM

Originally Posted by Powder Pirate

...anyone who knows how to ski would not need to try a Rax. All you East Coast queers should learn to ski before trying anyone attempt to compensate for your lack of skiing ability with a tool like the RAX.
...

Powder Pirate,
steel edges were invented to
"compensate for lack of skiing ability"
of whoever was not able to make it on prehistoric skis.
So were shaped carvers 50 years later.

The new ski technology will come
whether you conservative guys like it or not.

Thou art a naive lad.
And I will breathe into thee a new skiing idea
And thou shalt ski on the Rax

**strum** · 04-04-2009, 03:57 PM

Thou art a naive lad.
And I will breathe into thee a new skiing idea
And thou shalt ski on the Rax

no, no I shalt not.

**Tom from Austria** · 04-05-2009, 01:44 PM

Originally Posted by strum

no, no I shalt not.

Cool boy!
Was just testing your knowledge
of ancient English.
The verse was stolen from Ezra Pound's "Ripostes".

Our Rax partners keep on developing
new technologies.
The very first product of a foundry (!)
has been tested in Tirol and Salzburg this week:

**sleepyme** · 04-09-2009, 10:36 AM

Skiing is really cool.! Whenever you'll ski,
you'll surely enjoy it.

**Tectonically_Neglected** · 04-09-2009, 12:34 PM

Rax still looks queer to me. But good to see someone else besides Tom comment on how they ski.

**VTeton** · 12-26-2018, 06:51 PM

Tom is getting ripped off by these clowns.....

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...bility-and-per

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**f2f** · 12-27-2018, 11:09 PM

Originally Posted by VTeton

Tom is getting ripped off by these clowns.....

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...bility-and-per

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tom from austria wasn't really australian

you can find him espousing both rax and staki on czech skiing forums.

**VTeton** · 12-29-2018, 09:00 AM

Originally Posted by f2f

tom from austria wasn't really australian

you can find him espousing both rax and staki on czech skiing forums.

There's still two pairs of Rax skis in the States. One pair in Boston and one at Squaw. Keep the dream alive.....

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