Know Your Kit | What Is A Ski's Rocker?
Ski jargon buster - we all hear these technical ski terms being bandied around the chalet or in bar during aprés - but what do they actually mean!?
We talked to some industry professional's to break it down for us laymen.
Rocker came around about 2015 and started in freeride skis to allow you to get float in powder and to help with turn initiation in a piste or all mountain skis.
You notice it with the separation of the tip of the skis, the bigger and earlier the separation, the bigger the rocker.
So rocker in the piste helps get float on the powder, rocker on a piste ski helps initiate a turn better.
Tail rocker on a freeride ski shortens the contact point so make easier to manoeuvre and on the piste skis makes it easier and easier to turn.
Big thanks to Andy from K2 for explaining what is meant by the term 'rocker' of a ski.
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