Having emerged at Innsbruck/Austria in January 2012, this ski lets you carve clean turns where others are already drifting aside.
The core of the actual invention is a pair of well-configured wings underfoot. The inclined ski makes the tip of the wing cut the snow and control the tracking. The wing can either follow the radius of the shaped edge or draw another curve.
It`s just the rider´s decision…

Hmmm a bit like skiing with your harscheisen still on your touring skis.

davidof - 09 November 2012 11:31 PM

Hmmm a bit like skiing with your harscheisen still on your touring skis.

Greetings from Vienna, admin. Well the harscheisen were invented just to stop any movement, whereas RaxSki wings and fins are controlling this movement. May I show you the Raxalpe as it was last Sunday

This extreme fun carver (radius 1.5m, 5cm underfoot) was in action in this Rax-gorge.
Floating on the powder right and few minutes later cutting grooves in the old firn-ice left.
Executing a carved turn on such steep/hard slope, this ski is drawing two grooves by each ski.
The wing is cutting the inner groove and the sidewall-fin at the ski-tale the outer one.
The distance between the two lines varies between 2 and 10cm, deepending on the orientation of ski-base.

It was very difficult to measure the traces as you could slide down any time.
Yet only the tracking tells you the whole story.

Believe me, Davidof. no other ski could carve here 4 hours without skidding aside.

What happens when you make a hockey-stop an a slope like that? From the photo it’s difficult to judge the steepness and it seems you have not turned much.

pierre - 12 November 2012 06:27 PM

What happens when you make a hockey-stop an a slope like that? From the photo it’s difficult to judge the steepness and it seems you have not turned much.

The RaxSki on the picture has a wing and a side-fin to scratch the ice while executing the hockey-stop. That is why it can more efficiently brake on ice than a regular ski with its edge.

Well the “snow” on this pic is very hard bumpy ice with some fresh powder on the right side. The whole day I was riding on the ice while using the powder strip as a ladder. The slope on itself is not very steep for an extreme freerider.

Just to send the blue sky to all visitors of this thread

You need to upload some videos to Youtube so we can get a clearer picture.

I’m open to new ideas, I’ve done some touring on approach skis so I’m not against the short ski concept.