Anton Glider ski review 2010

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This ski is unique; there is absolutely nothing like it. Over the years we've seen a lot of interesting "innovations": Ski boards, skis with no tails, skis with two tails, skis filled with ball bearings and oil, skis with weighted tips, "shaped skis" with pencil-ski center sections and on and on. This, unlike many of those abandoned experiments, is the real deal.

The Anton version we skied is the Carbon EX and consists of a 154cm carbon ski on which is mounted a full suspension spring that in turn supports the binding. The spring deforms under pressure, stopped by two independent adjustable front and rear progressive flex adjusters—stoppers—that de-camber the ski as the spring suspension forces them into contact with the top of the ski. The system features 20—twenty—positions, each of which creates a different flex pattern allowing the ski to be adjusted to feel like anything from a soft 11m radius groomer cruiser to a full-fledged 180cm-feeling GS ski.

Based on our tests, which included a coaching session with a strong skier pursuing true expert status, we can report that the system works well and is an exceptional training device, beyond being a great ski.

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