But perhaps the single biggest advance in ski equipment during the decade was the introduction of shaped skis. Shorter, fatter and easier to turn, shaped skis made everyone a better skier, seemingly ...

Then touted as revolutionary, shaped skis resembled an hourglass, and were shorter than their predecessors. Having broken a tip off the Dynastar Omesoft “straight skis” I’d loved since high ...

Subscribe today. Help is here, Jacklyn. I made the switch to shaped skis just recently. Volant metal skis. I must say, they’re mah-velous. Turning has become almost an exercise in telepathy ...

These safety concerns have forced race officials to extreme sidecut skis, which have allowed skiers to reduce their radius when cornering and, as a result, increase speeds. Shaped skis ...

Literally. Rocker skis are what it’s all about. And as much as shaped skis changed the way we carve down a mountain two decades ago, rockers are looking to up the ante once again. The average ...

Designed by McConkey and Volant engineer Peter Turner, the Spatula was the first ski with both reverse sidecut and reverse camber, inspired directly by the shape of water skis. It became McConkey’s go ...

But over the years, rockers have evolved. “What was once thought of as a powder-only ski, is becoming the next best thing since shaped skis,” said Ryan Dionne, content director at Boulder ...

I was the first one in the valley with “shaped” skis. It was “intuitive” learning. They became the best sellers at a little shop by the Snowmass grocery store. Earlier along the way I did ...

Ski construction hasn't seen a ton of game-changing innovations since shape skis came out. Sure, every year new skis come out that combine carbon, metal, wood, and plastic in unique ways ...

To get top performance out of those expensive skis, they must be properly tuned, writes columnist Dave Irons. That means sharp smooth edges with correct edge geometry. While it’s true that today ...