WOOD SKI KASTELAAR
Handmade
INNOVATION, ECOLOGICAL
FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE

DESIGNED TO MINIMIZE THE VIBRATIONS OF SKIS

Kastelaar has managed, through an innovative way of conceiving the skis, to MINIMIZE AND NATURALLY, THE SKI VIBRATIONS.
Vibrations are the critical element of this sports equipment which compromise its performance and functionality.
Starting from the wood, a material able to drastically reduce the vibrations and, eliminating the contrary, those who amplifies or the metal (titanal) and other plastic auxiliary materials of modern skiing, we have arrived, following this scientific approach, to the realization of a ski almost solid wood completely "modernized."
Bringing it to its highest this amount of wood in skiing reduces vibrations to a minimum in a natural way: SCI BECOME MORE POWERFUL: NOT TIRED, AND VERY STABLE, EASY AND EVEN MANAGED TO HIGH SPEED, SENDS SAFETY and OFFERS GREAT SEAL on icy and hard surfaces.

SOLUTIONS
AND TECNIQUES

To achieve these skis, seemingly simple, Kastelaar has had to invent a whole host of technical features scratch and unique to this modern generation of solid wood skis, partly drawing on the tradition.
Are more than twenty solutions and almost invisible devices applied to the wood and to skis made largely without having to resort to auxiliary materials or anyway minimizing their use.
In particular, today the cutting of the boards occurs through robotised machines and the "collage" of various composite materials, "to adjust" so should the twist, the elastic response and neutralize the defects of the wood, have all been designed and engineered with specific software.
The assembly of solid wood with carbon fibers, Kevlar and glass fibers (which are used in minor amounts necessary possible), impregnated in proprietary structural epoxy resins, is wet on wet to create a branching of the polymer in 3D and not 2D (as is the case for all modern skiing through the hot bonding at 120 ° using dry materials ") in order to create a monolithic structure and avoid any delamination. the whole is subjected to a uniform pressure of more than 100 tons" in cold. "the final curing time is longer than one week, but the ski structure has nothing to do with all that. Even today, after more than ten years from the first pair and have made countless products, we do not have no broken skis.

ADVANTAGES AND PERFORMANCE
OF THESE Skis
WILL SURPRISE

Each ski model clearly has its own unique characteristics, but all have in common a good contact snow-skier, high stability, good edge grip, conduction, high comfort, maximum safety at high speeds, superb aesthetics. You really want to have fun as skiing, in safety and in freedom, you tire less for the same performances offered.

Thanks to total structure in wood and absence of metal (titanal), Kastelaar skis have the broadest range of use in the market. They are number one: aggressive in the hard, sweet and fun in the easy, always without tiring. Moreover, because of wood, the structure becomes more toned at low temperatures and softer at high. This allows you to always have your skis best suited to each season and type of snow. All in a natural way.

YOU'RE FREE, YOU'RE KASTELAAR

Our skis have shown practically to have a sealing and a superior stability to any other ski with equal dimensions and on all types of snow. This allows you to ski in absolute safety always, with confidence where as you want and you like it.

Kastelaar

Vibrations in less50%

Innovations applied21

Cold bonding3D

Vantaggi

TESTED TEN YEARS!!!

The Kastelaar have TESTED FOR OVER TEN YEARS IN ALL SNOW CONDITIONS AND TEMPERATURE throughout the ALPS.
They have also been used for months in ARTICO and NORWAY IN EXTREME CONDITIONS with temperatures ranging from -40 to -5 Celsius. In both cases, they never reported any problem or damage and with the MAXIMUM SATISFACTION of testers (athletes, explorers, ski instructors, normal people).
If the wood is always trying to be in equilibrium with the external environmental moisture (the moisture content varies according to the season, usually by a 9% to 16%), in Kastelaar this has no particular structural or aesthetic consequences, because use of techniques able to minimize such variations. If required with normal precautions, the ski dimensional variations (hundredths of a millimeter per centimeter), are absolutely negligible and do not affect the quality of skiing.

Less microtrauma & less fatigue

The Kastelaar respect for your physical: low vibration are the best ally for the preservation of your body reducing the risk of microtrauma and make you less tired. We have feedback from several people before using our skis had, with other brands back pain and knee and if not trained were very tired. Using our have not encountered such pain and physical problems, skiing with the same intensity as before and with less fatigue. (True Pier, right Alberto, Johann true, true Stefano?). Also for this reason and for their ease they are suitable for people of all ages.

Maximum freedom of skiig

You can ski in carving or sliding with the same skis! Switching from a skid to carving and vice versa has never been so easy and modern thanks to the special ski curve incoming due to the particular curve of the tip. With Kastelaar You're always deciding the turn radius and in the style you prefer. Higher security and less risk of distortion to your knees, less fatigue for your back.

why wood

Wood is a natural carbon fiber, and is the material that most resembles it in nature for mechanical characteristics (it contains almost 70 '% of carbon.). The wood has indeed outstanding mechanical properties able to overcome in time and in many artificial materials performance, with the advantage that it is an environmentally friendly material, durable, lightweight (for equal volume weighs four times less carbon) reliable, non-polluting, easy to work. If combined with composite materials and processed with cutting-edge technologies, as does Kastelaar, to neutralize the weaknesses and handle flex and twisting in a timely manner, then you will find yourself in front of an excellent material, new, modern, highly advanced and amazing that nothing It has to do with the wood idea that you have made so far and that will not ski, but fly!

Made to last

The wood has a great resistance to shocks, fatigue and vibration over time. Furthermore dents or scratches do not propagate as instead happens in composite materials such as carbon or glass fiber. the exposed wood of Kastelaar does not allow to hide any structural damage Unlike metal skis also. It is often said that the metal skis after a couple of seasons no longer have the same characteristics. It's true: the reason is linked to the fact that the material (often plywood) present between the plates of the metal ski, is first "toasted" to 120 ° during assembly, impairing the physical characteristics, so as to "crumble" with use and that the same metal (titanal) has a very fast decay, significantly higher than the wood, on an equal fatigue cycles. So actually in the metal skis there is a greater structural decay, and then of performance, even if not visible.

Maintenance

One of hardwood ski Kastelaar, does not require more attention of another plastic ski with the advantage, in the case of scratches or other, that just a bit 'of specific and a paint brush to put it back in again with simplicity and without referring to a professional.
Kastelaar provides anyway for the further recovery of the skis service "Family Kastelaar".