Chris Rossi

@rawly its testimonials like yours that make the whole process worth while.  Enjoy the ride.

@gavski really appreciate the support.  

@Mastercrafter Input and design ideas come from all of our team skiers and testers, consumers, dealers, and from my personal experiences on the ski.  I then sift though all the input and decide on the best design changes that I believe will translate well for our consumers as well as our pros.  The consumer experience on the ski is very important to us at Radar.  Winning pro events is amazing and something we are passionate about but we also spend as much effort to make sure that our consumer base will be able to peak perform on the product.  I can say without a doubt that I am as excited to hear of your personal best on a radar product as I am to hear that Joel Poland ran 41 on the ski at the World Championships. As @MDB1056 mentioned, we have a dream team at Radar with a lot of years of experience and knowledge that I am fortunate enough to work with and none of what I do would be possible without them.  

Anyone happen to catch Joel Poland running 41  yesterday on his 24 Vapor and becoming the top seed for the finals of the World Championships? Whether you’re at the pinnacle of skiing like Joel or just learning to run the course, the new Radar Ski Vapor will take you where you want to go. If you are on an older model Radar or have always wanted to try one, now is the time. Congrats Joel on a remarkable accomplishment and thanks for being the first Radar through 41! What a time to do it!

When I have skiers try the new 24 Vapor, I have them take a set at the factory short/deep settings and then have them ski a second set with the long/shallow settings.  The goal here is to find the set up that feels better to them.  Once they choose which factory set up they prefer, the next goal is to find the ideal boot placement. I disagree with Horton as I do not believe the 24 Vapor is highly boot placement sensitive, rather that skiers tend to set their boots to factory and then just get hyper focused on fin settings. So I recommend NOT touching the fin once you have done the short/deep vs long/shallow experiment until you find your ideal boot placement. Start at factory boot location for the set up you chose and then try moving the boots forward.  If it feels better, try going further forward until it feels worse and go back to the location that felt the best. If boots forward feels worse on your first try, then try going back with the boots. If back with the boots feels better, try going back further until it feels worse and find where it feels best to you. Once you find your favorite boot location, then you can adjust the fin if necessary.  Boot placement is the MACRO adjustment and fin settings are the MICRO.  We spend countless hours finding the factory set ups so in most instances, they will be the go to set ups, but we are all structurally different and utilize different techniques to accomplish our skiing goals so this is the way I go about finding the ideal individuals set up.