to može biti američka istorija skijanja, jer 96 je već Tomba vozio svoj 9s kraći od drugih, i tako...Citirati:
He, he, ovo me podsjeća na različit pogled na istoriju bivših republika nekadašnje države. Svako ima svoju verziju. Ovo je istorija kojoj ja vjerujem: http://skiinghistory.org/sidecut.html
Salomon i Rossignol su poslednji prihvatili novost zvanu karving skija: "As late as 1994, Rossignol built an entire factory for rapid manufacture of the injection-molded 4SV cap ski, with a painfully straight 7mm, 83-64-73mm profile – and the factory didn’t yet have a shaped ski in progress."
A opšta prihvaćenost novih skija je krenula 1996 nakon uspjeha dječarca zvanog Bode Miller: "With a width limit, the K2 Four wound up with dimensions of 98-65-87 – a 14mm sidecut depth, describing a 22 meter radius at the 195cm length. When the mold was finally cut the following year, the result arrived in New England just in time for a young racer named Bode Miller to try it out in the ’96 Junior National Championships. In four events at Sugarloaf that March, Bode took three firsts and a second. Overnight every Master’s racer in the country needed a pair of K2 Fours just to be in the game.
The word was out: If you wanted to keep up with the hot guys, you needed shaped skis. Traditional 7mm “straight” skis began to pile up in warehouses. Salomon and Rossignol had hundreds of shipping containers full of slick, straight, heavily discounted cap skis."
A evo i kompletne istorije razvoja skija: http://www.skiinghistory.org/skishistory.html