whoa! Trondheim takeover!

Blissard What is your take on instrumenting the skis? What ind of sensors would be most effective? (I can´t help thinking that a few precise accelerometers (tip, middle, tail (boot)) might give you a lot of really useful data?) Pressure sensors under the boots will probably be quite hard to fit, an...

By the way, since Finite Element Analysis has been discussed here, I found a Ph.D. thesis which you may or may not be familiar with:
FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATION OF A CARVING SNOW SKI

Seems interesting at first glance.

Being a cybernetics engineer I've thought about "ski instrumentation" a few times myself. But haven't even got around to building a ride. I'd be surprised if the bigger ski companies haven't done something like this at some point in time, though.