+1! Only missing the elusive Super Pro Vario models.
+1! Only missing the elusive Super Pro Vario models.
What's the signature on a yellow one?+1! Only missing the elusive Super Pro Vario models.
I love kneissl, check out these reach racketsSince we are talking about being members of the Ski Club, I am currently having this made:
I sent you a message. Did you get it?
Got it, thanks!
are you going to mark your Prestige Mids with three legendary triangles?
Once got some offer to work for them in their headquater in Ried in Ski department as Software Technician...
I have a couple of Vacuum Pro mid and Vacuum TwinTec Pro that I would like to put a stencil on.are you going to mark your Prestige Mids with three legendary triangles?
Thank you so much! You are the best!Hi VS, the Austrian patents don't mention inventors by name, but the US version of this patent does!
The US patent was filed one year later than the Austrian original, on July 9, 1986, and issued on October 11, 1988 (4776592). The inventors are listed as Helmut Umlauft and Karl-Heinz Wäger.
Umlauft went on to author 9 more US patents for Head Austria through 1998, two of which with Wäger as co-author, ending with the sub-10 Oz super stiff frame design with the dampener in the butt, which was the basis of the i.S series. He also co-authored the 1990/1991 grip pallet patents with Robert Marte (the US version was granted in 1992: 5129656). The only significant racquet patents from Head Austria not attributed to him are those involving the piezoelectric vibration dampening system, so he was either their main engineer or director of R&D!
Umlauft also designed skis as well. True engineers!Yes, Pro Star is Pro Staff
The one and only time I skied , they put me on Head Standards that looked like elf shoes...practically NOTHING behind the bindings. This was at Sugar Mountain, NC and they didn't allow beginners to have poles!!! I got fairly competent on the bunny slope(with rope pull), even to the point of helping others a bit. Then I made the mistake of going to a regular slope. It was funny and sad all at once ! Haven't been back in 40 years !!!
The one and only time I skied , they put me on Head Standards that looked like elf shoes...practically NOTHING behind the bindings. This was at Sugar Mountain, NC and they didn't allow beginners to have poles!!! I got fairly competent on the bunny slope(with rope pull), even to the point of helping others a bit. Then I made the mistake of going to a regular slope. It was funny and sad all at once ! Haven't been back in 40 years !!!
The one and only time I skied , they put me on Head Standards that looked like elf shoes...practically NOTHING behind the bindings. This was at Sugar Mountain, NC and they didn't allow beginners to have poles!!! I got fairly competent on the bunny slope(with rope pull), even to the point of helping others a bit. Then I made the mistake of going to a regular slope. It was funny and sad all at once ! Haven't been back in 40 years !!!
Didn't help that a little bout with polio left me with one foot at a 34 degree outboard angle...of course meaning I could turn left like crazy but couldn't turn right to save my life !! I basically would ski until I fell...get up and re-align, ski more until I fell...rinse and repeat. Not a lot of fluffy snow at Sugar Mountain, btw. I'm glad my friends didn't try to make me run the mountain!!!
Snowboard would be much easier for you.
After two surgeries on the foot(doing much better now
) , I'm not chancing any damage by tempting the mountain snow gods ever again. First skis I owned were 205cm Atomics with a steel layer. Was usually the fastest one on the mountain. Much easier to ski on more modern skis, but when the snow is rough and chunky I feel like I'm being bounced around and not in good control. Have to have be more careful about the conditions and direct the skis more.
Pretty cool looking racket!Lots of fluffy precipitation in the mountains as of late; which compels me to revive this thread again.
Since the last post above mentioned Atomic skis, here is a rather scarce example of an Atomic racquet. It is made in Belgium, and definitely has a Snauwaert look to it (consistent with what others had reported in the past). It also specs and plays just like a "Fortissimo Graphite", so it's a pretty safe bet that this is a Snauwaert contract product.
In post #60, I had mentioned that I was a Völkl nut once, and had bought a bunch of their clothing from the shop I was working for in the mid-'80s. They were unsold inventory from years earlier, some of which dated back to the mid-'70s. I thought I had worn them all out or lost them, but recently came across a set that I had stashed away and forgotten about. The elastic bits have all dried out and turned into brown dust, so these are no longer wearable even if I hadn't suffered from closet shrinkage in the intervening decades.
The terrycloth onesie below with its integral whitie-tighty had never been worn (the brown streaks are storage stains and not skid marks). I didn't know such a garment had existed at the time, and bought it mainly because it tickled my juvenile sensibility. I presume it was designed to produce a tucked-in look that could only be undone via catastrophic injury? Has anyone here ever worn something like this back in the day? Of course, there is a distinct possibility that this is a base layer for a ski outfit, not tennis, but I found it with those tennis clothing, hence the assumption.
That looks like a Prince CTS Approach 90Don't forget K2's foray into tennis rackets in the 90s
Hi @McLovin, thanks! Nice collection too, I can see some serious frames as well! Are the black and white Pacific the same as my Fischer Pro Tours (the grey and red ones on the left of the first picture) ? Looks like it.
