 Poster: A snowHead
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Just trying to get some opinions on "my"(provided by the Corps), race skis. I've done a search, and I think they may be last seasons model - they have two "bars" just in front of the toe binding. Just curious to what people may/may not think of them in order to warp my opinions 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I think I know what ski's you are on about. I believe I hired a pair in St Martin last February. Will check avec mon pere. But they were very good!
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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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Great fun, stay on the piste, becareful how hard you push. Next years model comes with free wing mirrors! 
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I used to own a pair - the 2001 model. They were a fun ski, since then they've made them less and less race-like and more consumer oriented, which is a shame.
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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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IanB, hired a pair in Champoluc last year. If you know the Monterosa ski area, it is predominantly a red piste network ranging from easy reds to a few medium blacks. Found these skis very easy and forgiving for all these conditions. Did not venture far off-piste as conditions as pretty grotty, but did a few mogul runs. All in all a pretty good ski for these type of conditions, seemingly equally at home carving long turns as well as short turns on tracks etc to control speed in narrow areas. Seemed pretty good on the icier bits, but that could also just be good servicing. On the few occasions I did give them a go in a pronlonged straight line schuss, they seemed pretty stable - certainly better than the Salomon street racer that would have flapped around like a trapped bird under similar circumstances.
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The standard retail 10-3V is indeed a detuned race ski, if you want the full 9 yards you need the 10-3vLAB ski which is the race version. The main difference I've found when skiing both versions is the LAB has a real sting in the tail, if you let your weight drop back at the end of the turn and then fail to initiate the new turn on time and dynamically, the kick from the tail will punch you into trouble.  However if you time it right you'll drive into the new turn like a bat out of hell!
Both have fantastic grip on ice and are able to carve both tight and GS type turns while feeling calm and conrolled no matter how fast or slow you are going.
In moguls I find the lab too aggressive, the edges just won't let go in those "Oh **** I need to pivot fast moments" so the retail version is a better all mountain ski, but neither are very happy off piste, there just isn't enough surface area under foot.
My favourite piste skis in either version.
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