Senaste innehållet av TomFromAustria2011

Adam. you are right that very steep walls are the straight path to hell. But if they are relatively short they are also relatively safe and they bring you a lot of fun and adrenalin. They are like a freestyle-park yet different. At the very beginning. RaxSkis were invented for steeps. Rear...

Yes I would love to ski in Åre. We are a start-up company and we do not have much money but in the next winter we should really promote our Scandinavian branch. What we need is the test&hire center for RaxSki like our new partner in Scotland.

Sorry, Nojlas, I do not agree with you in this respect. A 75° slope is not necessarilly a solid ice or a solid rock. I am talking about nearly vertical walls that are so soft that you can write in it with your fingers. Of course, you are right that these formations are not very stable. I...

"all the Rax skiing is done with the weight back.." - we are not so stupid. Keep to your surgery, dr-telemark ! Your "carving" patients need you badly.

Soft snow = you can carve in it = it is not an ice = but it is not a slush. You are right that such a slope is not very stable. It's a fun if you find it somewhere.

Sorry, my knowledge of Norwegian is poor. I appreciate his modesty and the absolute feeling of balance. I think he is skiing with brains more than with muscles.

Well, Carled, believe me that a real skier has sometimes no choice between 10 m and 3m wide passages. He simply must ride thru them all. I was not saying Utter would not be an excellent freerider. But he himself could perform better in certain conditions if he had RaxSkis and few weeks of...

Well, mholm, "steepness" can be measured either in degrees or in the probability that you survive the slope. With very short RaxSkis you can turn without jumping even on 75° soft snow slope. But I would not ride that if the slope were 1km vertical. Really delicious is raxing down steep ice on...

You are welcome, SverigeTomten! Well, nobody knows, what will be the performance of a top professional freerider after few weeks of training on RaxSki. Do you know Fred Sjörsen who jumped more than 100m vertically? For me he is the best. We would like to get him for our team but he is...

You are right, Utter, there is no jump turn on this pic. You had enough space (min.width of line is > 10m) for long turns. But the pure fact that a freerider on big-mountain skis could ride close to the fall-line tells me that the slope was not so steep. RaxSki is different as it can brake...

Well, it is a misunderstanding. Lifting ski tips / putting pressure on rear fins lets you turn very quickly on any surface. So fins are good for DIRECTION CONTROL, not for speed control.

Micro-ski is made of plastic, has no edges and no tail. If you lean back you will immediately fall backward. Micro-ski just makes your boots little bit longer.

It is not that extreme! Where is that mountain? Dear Swedish freeriders, I am just leaving for Rax-Alpe and that is why I\'ll enter your discussion Wednesday night again Tom

I appreciate your approach, Nojlas and we know we must manufacture at least two big models of RaxSki as soon as possible. There are just few prototypes of this Big Rax for "full speed, big turns, open fields,...". They make you feel you were riding a surfboard over waves. As a "graduate" of...

Well, Utter and Nojlas are just saying "Jump turns are something they did in the 80's" and "worthless skiers perform them" - and I like what they are saying. You are right - in the last 5 years I have done nothing reasonable but - invented this RaxSki.