Elan (company) - Elan SCX

Elan SCX

Elan SCX changed the world ski industry by inventing sidecut skis, that made carve turns possible at low speeds and with short turn radius. They were first developed in 1988 by Jurij Franko, who calculated a suitable flex pattern for new kind of skis with his colleague Pavel Škofic. They organized a project dubbed SideCut Extreme – SCX – and set out to build prototypes. Introduced in 1993, the concept was initially pooh-poohed by other companies, but in secret they quickly started working on similar designs and such shaping was common by the 1995/96 model year.