Imagine putting a ski instructor into your ski boot and taking them withyou all around the mountain, whenever you want. Carv aims to do exactlythis by providing a technology that picks up errors in your skitechnique and offers you the resources required to improve. Crazy? -Yes. Skeptical? - Some of our team certainly were. But by the end of theday it was very clear that these doubts shutdown and Carv’s potentialto completely transform the way people ski was realised.

Carv consists of an ultra-thin smart insert containing 48 pressuresensors and a 9-axis motion gyroscope. It slips into your ski bootbeneath your liner and communicates using Bluetooth to an app on youriPhone. The Carv app also provides a range of intriguing insights aboutyou your skiing and day on the slopes. We found the post run techniqueanalysis especially cool. Take a sneak peak at some of the otheradditional features in the Carv app here.

The technology is most useful for intermediate skiers who can easily skigreen runs and are working on their parallel turns - up to those who areconfident on black runs, but trying to iron out bad habits linked tobalance, edging, pressure and rotary aspects of ski technique (this wasme). One of our testers pointed out that she already knows what she'sdoing wrong, but mentioned that “having constant feedback turn by turnwas extremely beneficial to actually make sure I did something aboutit”. On the other hand, another one of our testers preferred not to havereal-time feedback, but was very excited to view and hear detailed postrun info on the chairlift.