Design and Technique features!

In general I have made a ski that is more balanced in soft snow than other skis. You do not have to "lean on the back of your boots" and they have a better flotation in soft snow then other skis. This is not only due to increased surface area, but due to redistribution of areas and optimized camber/tips of the ski.

Design features for balance in soft snow conditions:

» Tip: The tip of the skis have a balanced length and Rocker to give good lift in soft snow, to stear in to turns and not generating to much vibrations (gives bad grip) .

»Taper: The taper is the difference between width in tip and tali of the ski. Hendryxskis have a very small difference, skis are almost as wide in the tail as the tip. This gives a ski that floats blanced in powder but also gives a ski that reacts more direct, i.e turn in faster than normal designs.

» Flex: Flex is probably the most missunderstod aspect on skis and it´s not so easy that you can say that a stiffer ski is more like this an that and so on. The flex is closley related, espacially, to camber/rocker but also to sidecut, tip/tail designs but also for the intended use.
For regular ski designs it not so complicated but for a progressive ski maker like us it is much more complicated....and if I tell you....I have to kill you all.........
But for your information.....Hendryx comes in medium to super stiff flex depending on model and intended use......

» Camber: Very important  aspect on skis and comes hand in hand with flex. You can´t really separate them from each other.......
Hendryxskis have the lowest camber possible to produce or reversed camber. Reversed camber skis have the best flotation and turning properties. Depending on the intended use they can be extremly agressive and nervous but also extremly smooth. A low camber ski have better stabilty, than reversed camber skis, but still have good flotation and nice turning properties. High camber skis are only for grip wax and XC skiing.....really bad properties for alpin skiing.....

» Side cut: Side cut can be placed and have different radius along the ski, however the most common is to have a continous radius, this is what hendryskis have in general and gives agressive properties to a ski. I usally let the sidecut go into the tip rocker, this makes the ski react faster.

» Rubberized tip and tail: There are three reasons for this. First: it dampens vibrations which decreases grip on hard slopes. Second: it decreases torsional rigidity in the tips which prevents the skiis to hook up in narrow concave coulouirs or in other situations. It also makes the ski slide easier. Third: it prevents delaminations from flat hard landings.

» Vibration dampening foil: Calms down the ski and gives better gripp on ice

» Torsional ridgidness: In general the most overrated parameter in ski discussions as torsional momentum is very low on skis.....

» Tail: These skis have either a full or a semi twintip tail. The semi tail is to prevent the tail from hooking up and for better sliding properties but it also gives the ski a very nice release of turns in soft and hard conditions (yes...race skis should have it to). In practice this means that you can do deeper turns, 180 degeres turns were you almost go up hill before you enter the next and then dive in to the next one.