 Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| Martin Bell wrote: |
| Not in DMS&S, mate. Our testers ski them and score them purely according to their performance. In the 7 years since I have been Equipment Editor, we have had a couple of occasions where manufacturers have actually cancelled a season's series of ads because the results didn't come out the way they wanted. |
I considered myself b@ll@cked 
Your addition comment just shows the pressures that manufacturer's try to or do apply.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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spyderjon,
Not to worry, the fact that Martin B has said that the DMS&S only score on performance is a good thing for us all to know.
Personally, I like someone who thinks and says this ski is not all that and justifies it in print, it makes the reviews of the mag all the more believable.
It wouldn't stop me buying that ski if I liked it tho' but it might influence where that ski started in my list of 'must tries'.
So a forum like this is good because vested interest is limited IMV. You have probably done us a favour by highlighting what some may have thought is subject to commercial pressures in the back of their minds.
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JT, out of curiosity, how long is your list of 'must tries' each year?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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spyderjon, sorry, didn't mean to give you quite such a strident Michael Ballacking!
You are right, the pressure is always there, and the bigger the company the bigger the pressure; that makes it harder for smaller companies to establish themselves, even if their quality of product is equally high. Then again, there's a certain type of consumer who prefers to avoid larger companies, so small "niche" brands often opt to stay small, even if they could expand. The big boys sometimes try to exploit that effect, having their cake and eating it by also owning a smaller brand (eg Rossignol/Dynastar, Atomic/Dynamic).
Testing skis is an inexact activity. All we collect is an average of opinions. But we do so in an honest and unbiased way.
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I loved my B2's as a first ski, still learning new stuff on them.
There used to be an old shooting quote - "Beware the one gun man". Dates from the posh shoots where some ppl bought different shotguns all the time, and had differnt ones for various styles of shooting. Along comes a poorer person with an old battered 12 bore who proceeds to out shoot everyone as they knew their tool inside out and it was practically an extension of them. Sure it applies to skis as well 
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comprex,
As you may know, I hire skis as I like to travel light. I have a large list because it isn't always easy to get what you want in the sixe you want. And a shop will always throw up a ski that I don't know much about. So I try and swot up and have an idea on what may work. Last year I skied Rossi 9s, Elan SLX, Head M75's, B2's and Stormriders. And the one that I went everywhere looking for was the Metron b5 but I couldn't find it and when I did and almost booked it I was in love with the XL so didn't bother.
I know where I am going this year so I know I can get the XL but I will also keep an eye out for the new B2, Recon and 8000 for off-piste skiing. Depending on the conditions I will have a couple of slalom skis in mind if we get stuck on-piste. Anything quick and grippy will do here for me. That will do for starters and I get most of my info from 'picks' on here and the DM and Fallline mags
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