Here's the way it works: you spend a day on a pair of diagnostic skis with vLinks Racing Computers, tiny little things that record 6500 measurements per second. The vLink was designed to be used by pro racers, ski coaches and the like and can record up to 99 runs of data. Wagner crunches the numbers from the computers and creates a custom pair of skis, just for you, through ski length, width, sidecut, tip and tail shapes, camber and rocker, flex pattern, stiffness, and material layup. They even give you the option of designing the top graphics. If that's too much work, they offer a wide selection of amazing solid colors, wood veneers and artist-designed graphics. In order to use the vLinks for Wagner, you need to go to a place that has them and right now that means Surefoot Deer Valley only, but the company said it plans to have versions they can ship to customers later this season. If you are super hardcore, you can order them directly from vLinks for $800, although getting the data to Wagner is another story.
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