Sitat TomFromAustria:Bilde: http://members.aon.at/edvsyste/Firn.JPGI?ve got something no other ski has: direction and speed control located behind your boots.I am the Rax Ski. The Boston Globe writes on Jan 3, 2008 that I am "an attempt to marry the superior turning of short skis with something that would track better in deep and steep terrain".You immediately feel an unknown grip of metal fins when skiing hard slopes.The successor of all ?Firngleiter? models.In the fall line it can be ridden on rear fins while its tips are kept high above the ground.The large front fins support crossing very steep slopes of up to 70 degrees (in corn snow > 5 cm).Warning: This ski cannot run over ice spots and rocks, take "Ultimate Rax 2008" instead. In very rough and steep terrain the ski offers a new radical turn.The skier starts this turn by powerful jetting/raising the ski tips,such forcing the skis to ?ride on rear fins? for a moment before both skis drop downhill and complete the turn.Rear fins do not lose their grip during the whole turn, giving skier the possibility of a turn-correction or -interruption,e.g. on an unexpected ice spot or a submerged rock. The position of fins behind ski boots produces momentum that forces both skis to automatically stabilize in the driving direction and therefore parallel to each other. Unlike shaped carver this ski offers no handle at ski tip section to get skewed by bumpy terrain.The Rax Ski has been developed in Austria in the years 2006 and 2007.A diagonal carrier holding vertical metal fins was erected on the ski, just behind the binding.The fins carving in the snow operate like skate skids when the ski is running on hard pack and iceor like surfboard fins when skiing powder and other soft snow arts.The fins should be located above the ski's gliding surface, behind the ski boots and as close to them as possiblein order to bear the skier's weight directly. These 3 requirements are discussed further on our homepagewww.raxski.com