Line 2010 EP Pro

http://lineskis.com/skis/ep-pro

DESIGNED BY ERIC POLLARD
This is Eric’s, and the world’s fattest, most progressive freestyle specific powder ski, used for making the previously impossible tricks, now possible in the pow.
Length: 185
Shape: 153-127-150

Like no other skier in the world, Eric creates every aspect of his skiing experience from his ski’s one-of-a-kind dimensions, to the unique flex pattern, innovative technologies and even the graphics. He then rides these works of art like no other skier can, documenting every switch pow slash with his film company aka crew of friends, Nimbus Independent. This is Eric’s world, and these are the skis that empower him.

THE DEVELOPMENT STORY BY ERIC:
The art on this year's Pro I wanted to make simple, but colorful with highlighting brush strokes. The mountains and rising sun are recurring themes in a lot of my art, but this is the first time I have brought them all together in one graphic.

The concept came from my need for a ski that makes skiing backwards in powder easy. I find the most challenging aspect of skiing backwards in powder is digging your tails in and going over the bars.

The engineering came from a culmination of four years worth of proto type powder skis. We tested tons of different variations in length, width, tip height, shape, tip shape, early rise, early taper and flex. I went as far as to have Line send me skis with big rectangle tips and then used a jig saw the continually modify the shape. I also built cardboard models of the ski to get a better idea 3 dimensionally of different early rise variations. The early rise combined with the tip height, mounting point, symmetrical flex pattern and early taper in both tip and tail eliminate all risk of going over the bars. It is the best ski I have ever designed.

Check out the Nimbus Webisodes to get a better idea of the way these skis were designed to be ridden.