Ski testing isn’t rocket science. In fact, it’s not any kind of science. It’s a small mountain of subjective opinions from a statistically insignificant population of skiers. Picking any single one as superior to all others in the game is a fun exercise disconnected...
Every elite racer in the world is at the very least checked for it. You can be one of the finest technical skiers extant and feel helpless without it. Sheer talent cannot compensate for its absence. It’s called alignment, and it refers to adjusting the side-to-side...
In one of last season’s Revelations (Back to Boot Basics), I wrote: You could make the argument that the purpose of the Alpine boot is to put the skier in this forward-biased position and hold him or her there through thick or thin. Reading these words triggered a...
Look, I know you’re busy and my weekly Revelations don’t always respect that. So allow me to show unusual sensitivity and cut to the chase. I want your money. Not all your money and all the gaudy trappings that go with it, just a snippet; you won’t even notice it’s...
Aging is a bitch. Nothing and no one is immune from its predations. I mention this not to impress you with the depth of my insights (the likes of which are unavailable elsewhere), but because we humans have a tendency to hope some things will last forever, or if not...
