Do fat skis still suck?

These wierd-looking fat goofy sidecut having rockery freakboards are still only good for heliskiing, right?

Discuss..

Your parameters for a fat goofy sidecut..........

What do you think?

SJ

 Fat skis are an excuse to skid your turns.

Fat snowblades are an excuse to turn your skids.

Fat, rockered skis can double as prop blades on a helicopter?

JF

I wouldn't presume to speak for that Jer guy... but I think that anyone who really,really believes that they prefer sub-100 non-rockered skis for general recreational use should contemplate entering hoarding mode this year or next. Just sayin' 

But then my take probably surprises no one. And of course it does not apply to the sport of ice skating.

We already know what you think.........

SJ

After everything else has been pitched by the collective.

There is only one thing that matters regarding all the clown shoe shaped skis

Do you smile when you ski them? 

I think you only need one, right Jer?

You're talking about my Metrons,right ?   Heli  ? Yeah.

I just don't see why someone, with at least some skill, wouldn't prefer to ski IN the powder.  But, to each their own.

It's not as bad as the people with poor bike-handling skills thinking they need full suspension to MTB. 

How about a reverse-quiver challenge? Ski a whole season using your worst ski pick for the day: 165 SL racing cut for powder day, rockered fatties for hardpack. Anyone?

What do I get when I win?

Pair of Metrons?

Bring it.

I would much rather do the first than the second.

I sense people getting itchy to click-in.....  Tic-toc winter is on it's way....

Heliskiing...what a lovely thought on a hot summer's day.

 Kinda selfish really when you think of the environmental impact.

I'm thinking about having my ski builder make me some purple slalom shaped skis. Model name, Sour Grapes.

Or in black and yellow and call them Buzz-kill.

I've been skiing for 27 years and I have yet to see anybody actually ski ON powder. In fact I don't see why someone, at least with some brain activity, wouldn't realise that that's actually physically impossible. But, to each their own.

Back OT: I'm really beginning to think the whole fat/freakski fad is just ridiculous. I mean - I have yet to see a fat freakski with Liquidmetal or some doo-dad on the topsheet that makes me not be a gaper. Plus, what's the use of having skis if you can't obsess over weather you should bevel the base edge 1 degree or 1.02 degrees?

Ok, first off, I prefer a negative bevel with a serrated edge myself, but to each their own.  

Leaving that alone, you may have me on the brain activity requirement.  But, I do feel that you're resorting to real-world experience in saying that skiing ain't surfing in terms of the way a ski planes in 3d snow.  I think that's very unfair.

Ultimately, we can agree to disagree on whether anything has yet matched the perfection of 7XKs.  Beats working.   

I'm intrigued, but let's not screw around:

Slalom on 275 cm jumping skis that flap in breeze.

Backcountry on 2x4s with one end cut at 45 degrees with a mitre saw.

Doable and done. 

Amusingly, some very impressive ski-mountaineering descents, that internet hardcore bro-ahs will talk about while they bag tourist routes, were done on gear not much better than 2x4s.  Because they could ski.   'Course those guys would have killed for dank modern gear.  Some of them probably would have gone as wide as maybe 80mm in some conditions, though of course others might have said wtf? too much is sometimes always just plain too much.  j/k.

Seriously,I've seen the smile on a race-brat's face after a storm day on new-to-them fat skis. Progress.  Life.  Said brat didn't quit racing eitther, it's all good.

 Even a race team kid can track out the powder instead of lying in a heap of it bawling at his dad for taking him there, and 'it's all good'? That's the reason fat skis suck. They make powder child's play.

Well - you could always avoid the race team brats by skinning or by skiing some lift-served that isn't overcrowded or learning where the stashes are or skiing some place that actually gets snow or....... I guess what I'm trying to say is that if fat skis have ruined your powder experience, then you are most likely a gaper.

Horses for courses.

look the point is that not all fat skis suck on hard pack, take the icelantic shaman for exsample
160/110/130 and with a 12  meter turn radius. they carve like a  $#^&ing  SL ski.