Do Snow Skis Work On Water ?

[Stevie Boy]

Ah ! see Goode offering big discount on a set of snow skis, if you but a Nano 1, can you use snow skis on the water or a Nano 1 on the snow ?

 

One for the Wilson Bro's video collection, they gonna give it a go !

[auskier]

they already have tried. didnt go so well.

some skis would work better than others - obviously. K2 pontoons would be the best.

[skier2788]

I have tried a couple of times.... doesnt go well. Deep powder skis kinda work. Never tried on a full rocker ski. Problem is snow skis arc the wrong way and weight in the middle flattens them. I got up once with a slalom on my left foot and snow ski on my right. Then stepped off like I was going to barfoot. That was a bad idea. Still have a scar from the ski. Lesson learned next time I will dull the edges.

[MattP]

@horton Jody where is Jody

[eleeski]

Goode snow skis rock!

 

They are my favorite skis for all around snow. I have Volkl, K2 and Praxis for when the snow is either hard or soft but the Goodes are the ones I usually go to. They have held up better than any other ski I have owned (5th season of lots of abuse in the bumps). I demo everything I can on the hill and I can't beat my old Goodes.

 

Never tried them on water - I have enough other crazy ideas to play with.

 

Eric

[BraceMaker]

Its a heck of a promotion,

 

Considering the Nano One is ~2000$, and the Skis are ~1200, you get near 1/3 off the purchase of a ski and snow skis.

 

Of course for ~2000 you can also buy many other skis and many other snow skis. But still heck of a deal.

[swc5150]

Too funny! I grew up alpine ski racing, so naturally we had to try waterskiing with our GS boards back in the late 80's. It does not work well at all, but I got up on them - barely! Wore my ski boots on the boom too, which worked great...no pain on the feet whatsoever.

[ScaredOfCorbets]

Big fat long FULL rocker skis will have the best chance, kinda like jumpers then. But what if the binding releases?

[ScaredOfCorbets]

How about this?

http://store.goode.com/carbon-scoop-142/

go with 193s?

[Brady]

[Stevie Boy]

Just come across this in a National Paper.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2277991/A-new-water-ski-ing-New-sport-uses-equipment-meant-piste-waves.html

[darren]

Yes they do ;) go to google and search for:" les arcs pool" this is in the ski resort of les arcs, on here you can see where me and other boarders /skiers came down the hill jumped onto the swimming pool and glided 60ft to the other side and jumped out :) its real funny! Problem is you won't do deep water starts as the service area is too small. Get the speed up though and it pretty cool ;)