 Poster: A snowHead
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Hello,
winter approaches and yet again I'm thinking , why don't i buy some ski's instead of renting.....
SO, wasted a couple of hours on the web and hmm... 'all mountain twin tips' maybe that's for me ?
I tend to go sking with snow boarders, thus while I mostly end up on-piste skiing (france or austria generally), I also end up messing about in the snow park and flailing though trees / soft stuff on the piste edges etc.
These atomic twin tips sound fun, but should i get more of a piste-specific ski ? My thinking is :
A twin tip so can be skied a bit backwards (= messing about potential),
rocker tip and tail so I might be able to survive turning in soft snow and moguls,
not stupidly wide, so that I can turn them,
not too heavy or stiff that I get pissed off with them when I'm tired, (i think i need to avoid going too long as well)
Potential to try to learn to ski in soft stuff properly.
(also not too expensive)
Is this flawed reasoning ? anyone ski this things ?
Also, I'm a bit put off by the fact that they are flat skis, so I'd have to get bindings drilled- eek.
I'm a clasic crap intermediate,  can get down black runs, but can easily end up in 'survival mode', esp. steep moguls...
Gareth.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Getting bindings mounted is painless, though it may require some travel or postage considering where you live which will bump up the price and faff-factor a bit. Might be easier to buy from somewhere that'll mount em up for you. Lots of shops do that.
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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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Lots of shops do that
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provided you can tell them the sole length of your boots - though some won't do it without the actual boot (e.g. snow and rock last time I tried, and Decathlon). I once wanted to buy a pair of skis in Decathlon, in a sale, for a present - but they wouldn't put the bindings on, although I could tell them the boot size. It's a safety thing, I think.
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Clearly it is time to find a more disreputable shop!
I know that both Sport Conrad and Glissshop will certainly sort you out without you having to bring them your boots, and they're both a splendid source for cheap skis.
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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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Of course, the more important question is, are these the wrong ski for me ? I've not found much on the web about them.
Rather unsure about the 87mm width (i've ski'd an 83 wide ski - wasn't a big fan, but I think that ski was a bitt too long and a maybe bit heavy so not necessarily a width issue)
but at 250 euro, maybe it's not a disaster if I don't get on with them...
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so no one knows about these skis ? that make me think that maybe they arn't popular, and that might be because they arn't much good ? the only reviews I can find on line are from sellers/ shop-staff saying 'these are great !'
maybe i should get antomic nomads or dynastar outlands rather than twintips......
confused as ever! (also I can't quite work out if the price in snow-how.de is correct or an error on their website )
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