ECHT v1 & Butters

Took the day off and tested my new ECHT v1 ski 🇦🇹

echt-v1

#savognin #snowsports #training #equipment #echt

(and no, I don't think they adhere to semantic versioning, but we will see 😅)

What an experience! This high-performance ski has racing genes that lead you through long (carving) and short turns. My rented HEAD Supershape e-Magnum for giving lessons is an all-mountain ski, so I felt the difference immediately.

The ECHT v1 has decent flex to practice all my slope tricks. So much fun! I noticed today how I over-rotate many of my nose/tail turns. But that should not be an issue if I work on making them full butter 360s?

📹 https://www.facebook.com/stompittutorials/videos/how-to-nose-butter-on-skis-for-beginners/460868492076215

To get a good feel for the length of the ski and the nose, I also like to practice these “Tripod butters”. It's a lot of fun and not that hard to learn:

📹 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEBj9x5kgwQ

It looks really good if you jump down a little gap 🏚

The ECHT v1 was recommended to me by the friendly staff at STS. I'm very satisfied with their service, even though they sold me skiing poles that where slightly too long (see here how I fixed that 🤣) I like how they did not go into the technical details of the ski when I bough it (well, they don't even tell you what radius it has unless you ask them, which I did not). It's not about the specs in the first place.

I learned from the STS sales guy that my ECHT is the second pair in Savognin. Please get in touch with me if you happen to know the first ECHT rider up here, I'd love to chitchat 😺

This is also how you should ski – Try “new” tricks and turns on every slope you hit, combine, experiment. Don't just blindly repeat the exact same turns over and over again! I see too many of these “boring” skiers all day long. Learn something new. That's where the fun is 🙂

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