Speed Skiing

Does anyone know of the official or unofficial monoskier speed record? I know Michael Milton, a 3 tracker, has gone well over 100mph but I couldn't find any info online about monoskiers. I've heard that Chris Devlin-Young has been clocked at 85 on a race course but thats all I"ve heard about monoski speeds. I used a handheld GPS unit the other day at King Pine, a 500 foot hill in NH, and clocked myself at 62mph. If the trail had been groomed and frozen I could've definately gone faster though. A GS suit would've helped too but this was a spur of the moment thing. Anyone know if anyone has taken a monoski to a 'real' speed skiing track?


Erik

Finding this took about 2 minutes.

By 1988 speed had been added to the French circuit with Vincent Guinchard establishing himself as the worlds fastest man on a single ski, attaining a top speed of 180 km/hr or 112 mph. Even with all the manufacturers making monoskis and all the promotion that was going on, the monoski circuit was struggling to find a consistent format. The organizers finally decided on mogul and derby competitions by 1989. Now things were really getting together (it seemed) but Bebop went out of business this same year. They threw the biggest monoski party ever to celebrate the end of this cult manufacturer's short time in business (they still made monoskis in their home until 1999). This also turned out to be the turning point in the battle between two alternative snow-sliding toys both fighting for room in the manufacturers presses.


David Arnaud and Xavier Cousseau have been constantly battling at Les Arcs for the 200kmph mark (about 124mph) and finally beat it! The Derby circuit is helping the monoski create a new forum for competitors to meet and compete and to expose the new and exciting developments in the monoski world to the best skiers in the world. The monoski offers a new and exciting perspective to skiers and snowboarders that want to try something new on snow. All the developments pioneered by all these new companies are stimulating the old monoskiers and enticing new monoskiers to join the sport.

Are they allowed to use the poles with skis on the ends and if so do they have to glide without them for a certain distance or legnth of time at that speed without touching the snow with them for it to be considered "one ski"? I don't doubt that it is possible, but there should be rules to keep it really one ski if it is an official one ski record. I remember the "death dance" that happens when a skateboard exceed its stable speed limit. Going that fast on a mono ski is deffinately CORE in my book.

I'm talking about sitting monoskiers, not the guys who stand with their feet bound side by side.

I don't know if you'd be required to glide for a certain stretch with both riggers in the air or not. I"m trying to figure out if anyone has ever taken a monoski down the course at Les Arcs. I had my riggers in the for a good part of the run because the snow was a little bumpy and I didn't want to get them caught in it.



Erik

Thanks Erik, that's what I was thinking.. the ones like Andy uses and the ones like you use in Skicross at the X-Games