I got interested in trying to design custom skis for myself. I would ideally pay someone else to make them, but I am curious about design characteristics.
My idea is taking race stock construction (silver fir + beech or ash + titanal sandwich) and putting it into a shape with a ton of tail rocker. The hope is that the resulting ski would be easy to pivot while having bottomless edge grip which (theoretically) makes it a great east coast hard snow ski for on and off piste.
That plan may be really dumb, in part because nobody makes the ski I'm imagining as far as I can tell.
A key component of the theory behind the ski is that putting a silver fir + titanal core into almost any shape would make it grip extremely well. So, here's the question. If I'm willing to give up a bit of energy out of a turn from skis like the Kastle MX and Stockli AX by throwing a super aggressive tail rocker on to the back (instead of the flat tail), could I still keep (most of the) edge hold?
The only physics constraint I can think of is the amount friction the effective edge of the ski can generate to facilitate a turn. I am giving up some effective edge by heavily rockering the ski. Otherwise I would have thought that a heavy, torsionally stiff ski would bite into ice quite well.
So, what am I missing?
