Max Werdenigg of Edelwiser skis, based in Austria, has come to Aspen during an epic winter to convince the world that highly engineered, custom skis are the future of the biz. “Basically,” he said at the Zele Community Table, “it was born at the kitchen table. We were working with Reinhard Fishcher about the dynamic movements on skiing. He thought about carved turns. The snowboard things came along with efficient turns and he said that’s it. He cut snowboard in half so it was two skis with one edge per ski. Our most popular model is still the Swing 162 that goes back to that ski. My mother really liked his idea of skiing and his skis so they worked together.”