In May I wrote a post about how short skis suck long skis truck...

For this guy the long sticks (and fully wooden skis) are still a serious business!

(Source: http://www.lightningboards.com/)

Whoa. Those skis remain the ones Marko described in his (very cool btw.) post about (ancient) skiing in Altai Mountains, Siberia. Talk about old school!

However, lightning skis are not all about those Sondre Norheim replicas (check the link for more info on that!). They have a pretty variable line of fully wooden skis with modern shapes (even very innovative ones!), made of straight grain heartwood ash. And using polycarbonate edges and DuraSurf sintered bases. If you want something totally different and unique this is a ski for you!

There is some talk about the skis in the TGR forums (go to “tech talk” and search for “lightning” or “lightning skis”). There is also someone mentioning how he immediately broke a pair. Anyway, that won’t (necessarily) mean anything general and I guess these are not ment to be for everyday, hard and aggressive skiing in the end? (that’s my guess but you won’t see lots of fully wooden skis in World Cup DH or racing in general, whether alpine or freesking, heh)

Still, that said it seems that the skis do fine in soft snow and in the feet of a skilled skier. The “Ultimate” model has a pretty nice, powder specific shape too (the video makes me drool even more the Armada JP vs. Juliens mentioned in this earlier post - the shapes have quite alot of similarity!).

Don’t you hate videos like this in August?

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