ALL MOUNTAIN

STAGGER 777

Their history. For all the slopes of the world…

"Between 1996 and 1998 I have developed a great number of freeride ski prototypes, most notably for professionals such as Brant Moles and Hugo Harrisson, multiple medalists at the Freeride World Tour. I have also developed the first Bandit in 1996 (B3) and the popular B2 in 1997, regarded as the first parabolic multi-purpose ski.
Building on these experiences, I wanted to go back to the ski that has been called the “All Mountain”, the all-terrain and all-snow.
For the hard snow, a ski both hooking with a distributed pressure on the edge and more centered underneath the feet and ski for soft and powdery snow, whose pressure distribution extends along the entire length of the ski and more globally on its width.
A ski not too large underneath the foot to avoid soliciting the knee joints on hard ground, but sufficiently for backcountry flotation. To adapt the geometry (center width, bearing surface) to the user’s morphology, to define the side-cut line’s radius to its velocity, the pressure distribution according to the field…The difficulty lies in the inclusion of these numerous parameters.
After years of developing racing skis, I have arrived to the evident conclusion of a very asymmetric ski: Lateral rigidities different in flexion and a shifted torsional axis with respect to the ski allowing to gain two behaviors on the snow.
The instructions: invert your skis! The more the surface of the carbon reinforcement is important, the more flotation there will be for soft and powdery now.
On the other side, for hard snow and for the track, the lighter the carbon surface, the more pressure distribution is put underneath the foot.”
“All Mountain 777, name taken from the passenger airline 777 nicknamed the “World liner”. All the snowy slopes of the world could be scratched by the marks of the 777.”
 

Their history – A reply to my own expectations…

“Without the legs that I used to have in my twenties, I stay nostalgic looking back on numerous years of competition during my youth and the strong sensations attached to them. Thus, I started enlisting all the vital criteria that should be rendered to. In my career full of encounters and exchanges, the broad lines of the Master FIS Program were all plotted:
It was in Davos, on a day shared with Michael Von Gruenigen, on which I was able to test his skis. They were easy with a disconcerting precision, a behavior which indelibly printed on my mind memory and were the first criteria to my list. Well aware that this would not be enough to craft a good competitive ski, the words stated by the outstanding visionary Emile Allais during an interview with Gilles Chappaz returned to my mind. He phrased the need for a left ski and a right ski. Highly relevant nowadays in light of today’s athletes’ body language, I integrated this notion to my specifications. The objective to be achieved has not been performed on the side-cuts, since the difference of the exterior and interior ski trajectories cannot be justified. It is on the differences of supports and therefore on the differences of pressure distribution that I have entirely focused on.”
“Having accomplished the work for the Master FIS Giant Slalom I only had to extrapolate to create its Slalom version.
February 6, 2000 – The Slalom of Adelboden: Michael Von Gruenigen turned in his best performance on testing skis that I had made available to the race department four days before…While these skis were dormant in a closet for more than a year, the history of short skis for slalom started at Rossignol. Then Jure Kosir turned the best time for the second round of the World championship finals at Bormio. Later, in December 2000 at Sestriere, five racers in the first ten and Hans Petter Buraas on the winner’s platform. What a great memory!”