This article is reprinted from The Professional Skier .
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Please see our copyright and disclaimer notice page. To carve a turn is to experience maximum directional control and precision. And now that exaggerated sidecuts have delivered carved turns out of the realm of ski racers and into the grateful domain of, well, the rest of us, that experience is becoming more widespread. With the true carved turn there can be only one carved-turn radius for any combination of sidecut and speed. In other words, if your goal is pure, carved turns, you'll need to factor your preferred speed and turn radius into the equipment-selection equation.