If you're consistently feeling the base (basically ruins the powder 'experience') then you might find some fatter skis help - can make 10cms feel bottomless...
Your defintion of 'bottomless' and my definition of 'bottomless' are vey different.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Mike Pow, Stop rubbing it in that you spend every winter in Japan - curious though having seen Car Danchi, slowboarders aren't shy about powder specific swallowtails etc, are all skiers purists like you or are there some slutty aussies and scandis with their dirty dirty fat rockers.
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gorilla wrote:
I don't see the point in anything wider than about 70mm for someone skiing primarily on piste.
First kitenski then you. I seem to have acquired a pair of SL skis...signs the world is ending? We'll know for sure when Arno trades in his carbon exotica for a nice piste cruiser for the blues with the missus.
fatbob, I think DaveC was recently seen on a pair of 155cm slalom skis. The end of the world is nigh!
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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clarky999 wrote:
johnE wrote:
If you're consistently feeling the base (basically ruins the powder 'experience') then you might find some fatter skis help - can make 10cms feel bottomless...
Your defintion of 'bottomless' and my definition of 'bottomless' are vey different.
Mike Pow, Stop rubbing it in that you spend every winter in Japan - curious though having seen Car Danchi, slowboarders aren't shy about powder specific swallowtails etc, are all skiers purists like you or are there some slutty aussies and scandis with their dirty dirty fat rockers.
Whilst I'm very fortunate to base myself on Hokkaido for the winter I am very much in the minority in terms of ski choice.
I'd rather be in it than on it.
Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
[quote="clarky999"]
Mike Pow wrote:
clarky999 wrote:
johnE wrote:
If you're consistently feeling the base (basically ruins the powder 'experience') then you might find some fatter skis help - can make 10cms feel bottomless...
Your defintion of 'bottomless' and my definition of 'bottomless' are vey different.
Or maybe it's just our definitions of 'feel?'
Indeed, I suspect my nips feel very different from yours.
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After all it is free
[quote="Mike Pow"]
clarky999 wrote:
Mike Pow wrote:
clarky999 wrote:
johnE wrote:
If you're consistently feeling the base (basically ruins the powder 'experience') then you might find some fatter skis help - can make 10cms feel bottomless...
Your defintion of 'bottomless' and my definition of 'bottomless' are vey different.
Or maybe it's just our definitions of 'feel?'
Indeed, I suspect my nips feel very different from yours.
Err, not really sure how to respond to that
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fatbob wrote:
under a new name wrote:
I am still thoroughly unconvinced about rocker, however, other than as a means to shorten skis without anyone noticing. But I still haven't really tried any so I can't make a terribly strong argument.
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Tee hee - I know who you are....you will admit that I am least humble enough to admit my lack of direct experience?
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under a new name wrote:
Tee hee - I know who you are....you will admit that I am least humble enough to admit my lack of direct experience?
I was crap at skiing until I got my first pair of fattish skis, I'm still not great shakes but at least my skis look rad in the gondola queue. And that after all is what counts. I have sod all experience at that racey stuff cos speed and gates scare me.
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fatbob, Rad=long and skinny. Think DH boards. And Plake.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
under a new name wrote:
fatbob, Rad=long and skinny. Think DH boards. And Plake.
Plake uses fat skis (fair amount of rocker there too).
(Photo stolen from Eva Walkner's site)
In all seriousness though, while racing is inherently 'un-rad' (being a prescribed course on a man-made and maintained piste) it's also far too gnarly and scary for me...
So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
clarky999, talking of Eva, here she is skiing Redeemers. In December. In Austria. In fresh, but certainly not bottomless snow:
I do love a ski width ruck. In my current quiver (excluding ones I am about to sell ... *PLUG*) I have the following underfoot widths: 67mm, 99mm, 105mm, 112mm. They're all lots of fun to ski on (not been on the 99s yet, but they sure look purdy) and while the 67mm effort are undoubtedly better on piste than any of the others, I actively enjoy the need to throw bigger skis around and, while I don't land stuff very well, it's certainly more forgiving on wider skis, than skinny ones.
You know it makes sense.
You know it makes sense.
zammo, If I'm reading those numbers right it sounds like a very sexy quiver!
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
rob@rar,
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fatbob, I think DaveC was recently seen on a pair of 155cm slalom skis. The end of the world is nigh!
Even my lad was spotted on some slalom skis at Hemel, got of his 125 underfoot and railed it all the way down.
On ski width underfoot, its got more to do with the shape and the design of the ski than the width underfoot
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clarky999,
Reckon you'll be close on at least a couple:
67 - Kneissl Red Star
99 - DPS Wailer
105 - Icelantic Nomad (old and mounted for tele)
112 - DPS Wailer RP
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zammo, you make me feel like a fatty 102, 105, 128 and another 128 on the way.
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You tell us! You know what conditions you made it out in last year Plenty of folk ski in the alps with fatter skis than that, when the weather's nice. What else were you going to do with all that money anyway?
he's re-investing the lot in a ski production project ... which raises the question of why he's buying any now as he so correctly says:
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I really shouldn't be buying them but I really want to anyway.
You won't notice much difference between 92 and 96mm, (unless the ski is a better ski) waste of money unless the 92s are wrecked.
Save your money, perhaps rent some fat skis when the powder arrives?
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