 Poster: A snowHead
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Standard skis vs "performance" skis ?
My wife and I ski black/red runs and sometimes venture off-piste but we don't do crazy stuff or push the limits. Do we need "performance" / "executive" skis ? Or will the standard carvers do just as well ? I don't want to pay extra if I'm not going to experience a perceptible improvement....
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Each to their own, I prefer to have new kit, which the platinum stuff often is.
It adds about 30 euros to a £4000 holiday.
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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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Executive skis improve decision making and get your coffee made for you.
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More seriously if you're skiing off piste or doing real performance on piste skiing (clue most people don't do this) having a premium package might enable you to pick the best skis in the shop for you rather than getting fobbed off with rubbish. Of course you'd need to know what skis you want and be a bit forceful so if you don't know enough about ski specs to be able to do that it might be money down the drain.
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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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You'll never know until you see what you get, seen performance skis rented as Standards, and visey versery, it's in the hands of each induvidual shop. For off piste black and red runners, go slightly shorter than you both are tall, no more than 5cm, and aim at around the 90mm-98mm waist width mark.
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| fatbob wrote: |
| More seriously..........(renting) might be money down the drain. |
Judging by the hire prices in St A. [/i]
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Blewyn, might be interesting to pay the premium and ask if you can swap around and try different skis - to see what really makes a difference. Then if you can't really distinguish between them all in any consistent way (which I suspect would be the case with me) then don't bother next time! In very different conditions (slick and icy one day, deep and moundy the next) even I can tell the difference.
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