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What type of skiing are you doing?

This will have the most influence over the type of ski that you end up purchasing. Skiing is broken down in to 3 main categories - Piste skiing, Off-piste skiing and freestyle skiing with other categories such as ski touring making up smaller percentages of the overall picture. Skis have developed now to be suitable for the terrain you are skiing on.

Piste skis tend to be very narrow under foot (65-75mm) and generally tend to have traditional camber and are therefore very responsive on hard packed snow

Off-piste skis also known as freeride skis are very wide under foot (over 85mm) and can have varying levels rocker or adverse camber therefore excelling in deep snow conditions and can also be relatively user friendly on the piste these days

All mountain skis are the ideal ski for most people as they don't excel on hard piste like a piste ski or in deep snow like a freeride ski but do a very good job in a variety of conditions where ever you choose to take it on the mountain. They generally tend to be between 75-85mm under foot

Freestyle skis are twin tipped and can be rockered or cambered or both and can be from 75mm under foot for park and pipe type skis right up to 130mm for backcountry twin tips such as K2's massive Hellbent ski

Touring Skis tend to be off piste skis between 85 and 100mm suited to a variety of snow types and fitted with a touring specific binding

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Rocker, Camber or Both?

We have already mentioned these terms and they are the new face of ski design. Skis had always been cambered (sit the ski flat on the floor and only the tip and tail of the ski will touch the ground, the middle will be raised) as this was thought to be the optimal way to make a ski accounting for the skiers weight being added to the ski in the middle. This was until some ski brands decided that for powder skiing, bending the ski the other way would allow the ski's tip to ride to the surface more easily allowing the skier to not have to lean back as much when skiing in deep snow.

This idea has now developed and it is not just powder skis that embrace it. Rocker is now included in all ski types for various reasons and has many effects on the ski. As already mentioned it has benefits for off-piste skiing and all mountain skis now have rocker on some models to differing extents allowing them to benefit when you take them in the soft snow. Freestyle skis can have rocker allowing them to feel more "jib" orientated and even piste skis have started getting some rocker included in the tip and tail of them mainly for lower level skiers as it allows the skier to be less likely to catch their edges while learning.

So if this rocker idea does all of these good things, why aren't all skis rockered? The answer is quite simple. Not all types of skiers suit rocker. Traditional camber in a ski still makes the ski more positive feeling on piste and allows the ski to have a longer edge in contact with the snow. It also makes the ski "bite" more on the way into and out of the turn making on-piste carving feel correct. Ski racers for example would always want a cambered ski.

Because of these two great ideas relating to ski design many of the best all mountain skis on the market include both concepts using rocker in the tip allowing for good floatation in deep snow and camber under the middle of the ski allowing for good on-piste performance. The only other consideration to take in to account is that if you choose a ski with rocker then you can ski is longer than you normally would as the rocker at the front (and back on some skis) will not be in contact with the snow when skiing on hard packed snow
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