Recent content by driesvdb

Thanks for your reply! All brands just have a thin 3mm foam rubber padding, so that's definitely not enough to absorb the impact. Problem is I think when you absorb the impact to much of the gate that the gate does not bounce fast enough away from your shinguards and hits your skis, that's...

Hey, I'm an alpine ski racer, fastest snow is spring snow, when it melts the day before and gets frozen over night, in the morning the slope is very very hard and icy but not as cold as ice, because very cold snow is really slow. You need to wax a very hard hydrocarbon wax as a base and then...

Hello everyone, I'm a young alpine skier and looking for ways to be faster. Slalom guards haven't changed in form since over a decade! I want to make a shin guard that could decrease the impact of the slalom gate on your shins so it doesn't make you slower. I added some videos in slow motion...