Fin whistle

[Zman]

In the Edged in Water video @Chris Rossi talks about ski set up and indicated if your ski is carving, and he sort of made a whistling noise, then your set up is muy bueno. So, have you heard your ski whistle? And, if you select one of the positive options, do you think it is fin set up, or your style is more smear than skid? Combination of both? Maybe a silly poll, but I was just curious.

[BraceMaker]

I've had skis that did, the old world team comp was one.

[Cam]

My Mapple 6.0 whistled on my offside turn when I put washers under the fin to tune my onside turn.

[thager]

Sometimes Yes, sometimes No. My old Saucier slalom always sang its tune!

[dchristman]

Never, but it would be neat to have an audio feedback device indicating speed that attaches to the ski. I found this patent intended for tennis rackets, golf clubs, and bats. Why not a ski?

 

Here's one for golf http://www.swingwhistle.com/

 

@AdamCord @adamhcaldwell I think this needs to be another Denali exclusive feature. The GUT-Whistle ...

A training and marketing winner!

[VONMAN]

My old Goode 9100 would.

[PatM]

It has happen but it is pretty rare. I think it is more just a combination of a perfect set of conditions than anything.

[jhughes]

My Rev6 does all the time.

[Wish]

Old Goode did but never got one to whistle since. Suspect it's an anomaly and not much to do with setting but rather 100 variables outside that.

[ScottScott]

I would like my ski to whistle kinda like the deer whistle you can put on your car, but to chase away the gators.

[dchristman]

@ScottScott good idea, but I think a whistle might more likely attract gators then repel them. They might think it's an injured duck! Better have someone else do the testing :)

[Nando]

Some of my skis have whistled, others not. As @Thager said, the old Sauciers, probably because Dave Saucier thought a drop-through fin weakened the tail, had their fins screwed onto the bottom and whistled a lot. My T3 does a little at shorter line lengths in smooth water. Years ago had a Connelly Concept that whistled all the time- that one probably because it was just before adjustable fins and I had raised my leading edge with washers which may have allowed water to flow throughout he fin slot.

[RichardDoane]

It’s a Radar thing.

[chris55]

Maybe if I can slalom on glass water...

[riplash]

I hear two of my many skis whistle all the time. One is a 2005 Obrien world team, and the other is a 40 year old world team. I think it is just the ski, because I have a lot to learn about skiing. before I even would know where to start adjusting the ski.

 

Rip

[gregy]

When I'm skiing my best I definitely hear a different sound in the preturn.

[liquid d]

"When you learn to ski without sound, it will be time for you to leave" - Master Po

[ALPJr]

My '94 HO VTX was a whistler.

[Bulldog]

Every time I shred my goode whistles.

[parkerc2112]

“Could you describe the whistle?” Breakfast club

[swc5150]

My ski whistles no matter what I’m riding.

[LeonL]

From my experience, listening from the shore, I hear more whistling from Goode skis than all others. Just my observation

[pgmoore]

I had a KD 7000 that whistled loudly on pretty much every ride. Everyone always thought I was crazy when I'd talk about that.

 

No ski that I've had since then has whistled nearly as much... or almost at all.

 

Wonder if there was something unique about the fin on that KD?

[Horton]

I always thought the whistling had something to do with the width of the fin slot in relation to the width of the fin. I don't think I've had a new ski that whistled in the last 10 years.

[ShererSkier]

The only ski I've has whistle was an HO Coefficient. Only on glass and in pre-turn, never was a long noise just for a split second after edge change.

[baja]

At the end of the season in November I noticed the whistle on my 2017 Radar Lithium Senate... right about when one of my longtime ski partners said that my body position was consistently the best he'd seen for me.

 

The mechanism of the whistle could be explained in several ways but I'll go with the classic Lauren Bacall... “You know how to whistle, don't you? You just put your lips together, and blow.”

 

Happy New Year and I hope you all get plenty of that whistle sound in 2018!

[RAWSki]

I agree with @LeonL I have heard several other skiers whistle when I am floating near the course and they pass by.... I have never heard my own ski but I am told it does.

[colo_skier]

2016 radar vapor with a Snitzer speed fin. Sings all the time if I ski well.

[Adam Caldwell]

[shansen345]

My D3 Quest 45 seems to whistle somewhat frequently. Not all the time, but I definitely notice it a fair amount. IDK if I voted wrong, but I'd say I notice somewhere between "frequently" and "sometimes"..

[dchristman]