So whats the deal with acting like assholes because someone is experimenting? I'm very sceptical of the RAX myself, but that's no reason to pick on them. I've read trough the entire thread now and I have to say that I'm a bit sorry 99% of the arguments against the ski is that they look "stupid"... I'll refrain from letting you all in on my personal feelings about the laundry that skis around in the park, but I guess I've said enough just there anyway.
Sure a lot of the people on Teton don't like them, and I probably won't either. But it's not like they're "threatening" me in any way, so I have to be a dick about it to "defend" myself. If people like them and buy them, then go right ahead keep making them! To try them out would definetely be an experience, one way or the other.
Anyway I don't get the feeling that RAX is supposed to be a replacement for my freeride skis, but a specialized ski for very narrow and extremely steep colouirs where most skiers would have a very hard time controlling "regular" freeride skis. Perhaps the RAX works well under these conditions? If I were going down something very narrow and supersteed I'd care more about control than style. I'll be the first to admit that under the conditions on the different pictures, I'd rather skid slowly sideways, like if I were on a snowboard, on my superfancy and expensive DPS's, not daring to do anything even remotely like proper skiing. But 99.99% of the time I find myself on sub 45 degree faces where I want length for speed and width for floatation and actually dare to point my tips directly down.
Keep going, Tom!
