"Normal" vs Center

some people are gonna say that when u get ur skis center mounted that they r more up to the front then the are back, so if u get urs mounted at center always tell them to go about 1 or 2 centimeters back from center

well i think it depends on what your going to be doing...

Center mounted skis are better for spinning and jibbing, basically because you are perfectly balanced between the tip and tail. When you center mount, however, I would reccomend two things:

1. ALWAYS measure yourself. put your ski on a table and put somthing on top of it to decamber it (make it flat). Then, mark right where the edge first lifts off the surface you have it on, and do the same for the tail. Then get a piece of string, and cut it as long as it is between those two marks. Fold the string in half, make a mark in the middle, then string it back up between the 2 marks, and you will find the true center.

you only have to do this for one ski, then you can use the mark you made and the recomended mounting marks on the ski to measure the distance forward and mark if with a ruler for the second ski. This way it's consistant.

*The reason why I say to do this is because most shops don't have a clue, and will mount your ski in the middle based on the very tip of the tip and the very tip of the tail, and with most skis this will result in a ski that is actually mounted more forward than in the middle or back.


2. Although many will disagree, NEVER get your skis mounted right on top of the middle of the ski. They ski great on rails and air, but they will not be fun elsewhere. give it about a cm back from true center. It doesn't sacrifice anything in the park, but it will make the ski perform much better out of it. Trust me, the extra CM makes a difference. if you look on the new Armada site, you will see that the pros don't even mount dead center.


Traditional mount is for traditional skiing. I will never mount a ski there again. All my park skis are a cm back from center, and my powder/all around skis are about 4 back from center. If you are into spinning on any feature, cliff, park table, etc, I would suggest mounting forward.

^he's got it...center is much better when it comes to jumps and rails etc. your centered on your skis so you dont tend to lean one way. i like center better because i ski mostly park but it makes it a little harder to turn

I have been carving and racing for like 6 years, and when I centermounted my skis, I had no problem to carve my them.If you are a good skier, you will be able to carve as well as before. The only thing is that in powder its difficult to balance yourself because of the centermount, but if you live on the east coast its not a problem, maybe 1 or 2 days of powder in the season.

Helps to know what ski you have and what you are skiing before we provide any answers.

thanks everyone.. i got 2005 fujas

u sound like u know wats up but im confused with the string thing...

it's a good method. that's how i mount everyone's skis at work and that's how i mount my own. read over it a couple times, it's not really that confusing.

i just dont get how u get the edge off the surface, like pull up or what?

i have made a step by step process of pictures of how you find true centre referring to the dude who wrote the really really long message... its pretty bad but i think i explain it right.

http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2103526869

All you have to do is put the ski on a flat surface, like a table. Then you put something heavy on it somewhere in the middle, so it's flat, and the "camber" is flexed flat (which is a word describing how the ski, when you aren't standing on it, rises in the middle off the surface it's on). Basically put enough shit on it so it's flat.

Then, the place where the edge is off the surface is the place where the ski itself bends up at the tip and tail. you don't have to do anything to make it come up... the ski is bend up itself. find the point right where it first bends up.

check out my picture its awesome

death center

apparently its good to take it back 1 or 2cm when mounting true centre to save out of park skiing :p

My TMs are 3 inches foward from dead center. I use those for fuckin around. My good park skis (fujis) are 3 cm foward from dead center. I like it that way.

damn nig.... you got more tail than tip... how they on groomers and pow?

why

well when you only ski switch on the mountain this is the way to do it. Its the most baller thing you can do, mount foward of dead center and ski switch everywhere.

would you center for switch in pow and off of cliffs?

I ski my pistols at +3.5, which is 4 cm back from the dead center. I think that they are great there. If I skied more just cliffs and BC jumps, and was less into just hauling ass forwards, Maybe I would mount further forwards. So, yes, you can, and it makes it loads easier to go switch in powder, but at the same time, it makes it much less fun to go forwards when it's deep.

tht would be so fun

I like it. Pow is kinda tough, cause I gotta lean back a little, but its not like Im tip diving like race skis or anything, since the Fujis have soft tips, powder isn't bad. And if theres something thats like soft packed little cliffs then I can easy hit stuff switch without needing powder skis.

on groomers I couldn't ask for anything more. Long tails make tailgrabs easier, nose grabs easier, and if anything, switch easier (even though I doubt 3 cm is that different from dead center). it makes butters  and nose presses easier, and my tails are longer, so I get a little more pop too. call me crazy but I love foward mount.

This man is not following anybodys trends but his own. Way to be original, in all seriousness. We need more people who think for themselves.

This is the only part I have an argument with. Never use the recomended mark for measuring anything, sometimes they can be different on each ski.