Short ski

Claim 1

A pair of short skiis for use by a skier employing a skiing technique wherein the skier's weight during turning and traversing of the skis by the skier is disposed principally on the heels of the skier's feet with turning and/or checking being accomplished by the skier unweighting his toes and repositioning the ski tips in the new line of direction of the desired travel, each of said skis comprising: a relatively rigid after-section and a forwardly projecting flexible forward section turned upwardly at its front extremity to form an upturned shovel, said after and forward sections being formed with downwardly-facing flat surfaces for shifting from side-to-side on the snow to facilitate turning of said ski; the top and bottom surfaces of said ski tapering gradually and continuously inwardly toward one another from a relatively thick aft-end to a relatively thin forward end to form a bottom surface having a continuous contour from the aft to the forward end thereof, the lateral sides of said ski further tapering inwardly and rearwardly from a relatively wide shovel to a relatively narrow aft-end; a boot location area on each said ski, said boot location area being so disposed with reference to the total running length of the ski that the ball of the boot is disposed at the approximate median of the overall ski's total length, said flexible forward section of the ski extending from the turned-up tip section rearwardly to approximately the median of said total running length; and the total length of each ski being at least 90 centimeters and the aft-end of the boot location area is disposed so as to position the boot heel substantially 6 inches forward of the tail end of the ski.