Anatomy: Skis
Anatomy: Skis
Don’t know your pre-preg from your torsion box? And what’s so great about vertical sidewalls
anyway? Skis have fairly simple constructions, but it helps to understand a few terms and concepts.
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photo: Illustration by Stephen Beneski
Construction: laminate or sandwich
Prized for its power and edge hold, the laminate ski is built—or “laid up”—in horizontal layers contained by vertical sidewalls. Typical laminate construction: base sheet, then a sheet of pre-preg fiberglass, then a sheet of metal, then the core, then metal, then fiberglass, then topsheet.
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