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Delicious Design Process: Get Your SKI ON. Charlie Pyott’s Twin Parabolic Skis

12 Mar, 2009 by Josh Mings in DESIGN
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twin-parabolic-ski-designYou better have one of those fancy skin-tight ski suits with… ya know, skulls and shiny shapes on it, cause your skin is gonna peel right off your bones with this new ski concept.

Charles Pyott had the idea of doubling the edge surface on a ski to help skiers maintain speed through turns and avoid energy loss when carving those wicked slopes. I got a chance to talk with Charlie about the ski design and the process he went through.

Here’s the brilliance of all he did in the short design cycle driving the development of one of the coolest looking ski concepts to com along. Be sure to check out all the images after the story. Enjoy.

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