 Poster: A snowHead
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Am curious to see if anyone has skied these skis, and what are your opinions ? Apparently they were released in Europe before the States
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Edit
forgot the welcome....
Last edited by Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person on Thu 15-12-05 11:14; edited 2 times in total
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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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Welcome to Snowheads
Didn't actually get to ski this but here is a bit from review from Fall-line for the Pro 2006.
Classed for intermediate to advanced.
lenghts are 165/175/185 with 78mm at the waist for 175.
"good all mountain ski, punchy and responsive whilst fun and easy to use.
Sat well with all testers across all terrian and especially lively and stable".
They don't say this is a ski for higher that advanced maybe because they say it can be a bit flappy
on piste..!!
The mag gave it the Fall-line recommendation in its class and call it a free-rideski.
So if that fits your ski profile it sounds like one to demo..
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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kris kenzel, I've used them and think they're the only real all round ski I've ever found. They carve well on piste (big-ish sidecut), are quite easy to handle off piste, turn quickly (tree skiiing), and float nicely in heavy snow. A lot of instructors I know ski them as they're such a good compromise ski. For us we need a ski that performs when we ski alone, goes everywhere at any speed, does any radius of turn, and will slide in a turn to boot!!! Not much to ask really!! I actually think this ski does it all, but is more or less an expert ski.
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Thanks guys for the feedback. I have already bought a pair, based on reviews that I have read. I don't really ski on piste much(or try not to), I suppose I was after a ski away from major manufacturers.I am heading off to Gulmarg in Jan and can't wait to get them into some of that Himalayan powder.
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easiski, what size did you ski it in?
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easiski, There is a guy from La Grave that is heading to Gulmarg for the season,his name is Jorgen Karstrom, you may know of him?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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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.
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Left ski/Right ski or are you writing of the Pre-Track Dual-Radius feature, similar to Zag, Liberty, etc. so not true twintip?
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comprex, Around 170/175 as I recall - had a really fab day on them - good skiers in lessons - heavy and very deep snow and did the little gullies on the face so plenty of variety to test them on. We did buy my friend some Aztecs last year for Xmas. She's a 12 week skier and very keen, but last year she was struggling - out here last week though and it clicked. Alan Craggs, having seen you ski I'm sure you'll love them! I didn't know they were asymmetric??!! Wonder which foot I had them on???
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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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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Asymmetric skis make sense when you think about it - the outside edge of the inside ski does carve a smaller radius turn than the inside edge of the outside ski (hope that's not too confusing!). Wonder why they're not more common?
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ponder because then the ski companies have to have twice as many moulds.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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kris kenzel, Don't know him - probably do by sight though.
Alan Craggs, Glad you cleared that up. 
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Asymmetric skis make sense when you think about it - the outside edge of the inside ski does carve a smaller radius turn than the inside edge of the outside ski
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I don't think you meant to say that!!!
I think perhaps you meant to say that the inside ski prescribes the same radius arc as the outside ski in a "pure" carve, but on a different theoretical circle centre....
*opens can of worms*
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veeeight, do you define skiers' centre to travel in
a pure circular arc or
a section of a hypotrochoid?
I think he meant to say exactly what he said.
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Well I guess that the general consensus is that these are pretty good skis , can't wait to get on them.
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Yes.
I would be interested in someone showing me that they are not two concentric circles of the same radius for much of the turn.
Show your working in the margins and use diagrams to aid your solution........ 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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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.
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Alan Craggs, The marks are where the two radii are written. At least they were on the ones I looked at last night. At any rate I don't suppose it makes one iota of difference. Interesting though.
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FAQ
mmmMMmmmmMMmm real pruuudy ski.
looks like I had misinterpreted the "dual radius sidecut" to mean that it was different on each edge, a la the Fischer concept. However a bit more digging reveals that it seems to be a description of having a deeper sidecut on one part of the ski to the other - ie in front of or behind the foot. So these skis are not asymmetric (like the Fischers) but have a "dual radius". Sorry for confusing myself and everyone 
