How is the HO A1 different from other slalom skis?
The thing I like about the HO A1 is that I can ski the same whether there are perfect conditions out or if it’s a horrible site like we had at the Masters this year. Your score on any day will be different, depending on conditions, and I feel like I can get in the high percent of my average in any conditions on the HO A1. What was it like working with legend Bob LaPoint on the A1 and S1? For me, it went from me being a one-man show when the HO Monza was out to having this whole team support system around me that has a lot of experience in ski design and bringing that ski design to mass production, which is a totally different thing. To have a team around me that can actually suggest things that work, that’s pretty amazing for me. Tell us about HO’s new hardshell binding system? That’s our engineer Dave Wingerter’s baby. I know he did a lot of design and consulting with snow ski manufacturers. The system we use for the release was specifically built for water skiing, and it meets all th
