VAIL — Dr. Mike Decker is one of those guys who looks at a phenomenon, wonders “what happens next?” and finds out.
For example, he wanted to know whether ski racers switching from skinny slalom skis to fat skis for overall skiing affected their race performance.
“We want to know what happens,” Decker said.
So did eight Vail Mountain School ski racers, which explains how Decker ended up on Golden Peak this week, answering the Great American Question: “How fast can they go?”
Decker is a director and chief scientific officer of the Rocky Mountain Consortium for Sports Research, an Edwards-based nonprofit that conducts research outside a laboratory. Besides that, Decker is a biomechanical consultant in the Human Dynamics Laboratory at the University of Denver.
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