 Poster: A snowHead
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Hello everyone! Im about to buy new skis, and I need your help.
I'm 168 cm tall and 66kg (about 145 pounds). This next year will be my sixth skiing winter .. I consider myself a beginner: I do it very well on piste, but I have problems outside of it and in deep snow.
I'm looking for a 2018 season dedicated to learning with an instructor. Normally, I'm able to have 7-9 days of ski every winter. But this next year I will try to get a month. So Im looking for an all-mountain ski. I have a Volkl RTM 7.4, but I think I need something new to get better.
Let me show you the options that I have here in a decent store of my country (Argentina):
1) [www.boardlife.com.ar] -4FRNT Click!, largo 1,72 CM-
2) [www.boardlife.com.ar] -AMPLID Syntax, largo 1,72 CM-
3) [www.boardlife.com.ar] -4FRNT Arete, largo 1,73 CM-
4) [www.boardlife.com.ar] -AMPLID Antidote, largo 1,74 CM-
What do you think? Is any of those a good ski for me? Am I searching wrong?
Thanks!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Welcome to the forum. You may want to edit your post as none of the links seem to work.
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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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@carpski, what are your goals? The rtm 7.4 is apparently a very good intermediate piste ski...
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| carpski wrote: |
I consider myself a beginner: I do it very well on piste, but I have problems outside of it and in deep snow.
But this next year I will try to get a month. So Im looking for an all-mountain ski. I have a Volkl RTM 7.4, but I think I need something new to get better.
Is any of those a good ski for me? Am I searching wrong?
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The first statement is an oxymoron. You can't be a beginner and ski very well. But anyway...
If I've read your post right, you've done 8 weeks on snow (at an average 6 days/week) and this year you will do 4 weeks. If you want to learn proper ski technique, none of the skis you've suggested are suitable - they're all too wide and two of them are specialist park skis. You'd be better off on your Volkls.
At your level of experience, i would expect your instructor to be focussing on skiing rough terrain (bumps), steeps (short turns) and then carving technique. A ski with an 85-90mm waist will not help you to learn proper technique for those conditions. You're better off with 75-80mm.
I think you're equating difficulties in skiing different conditions with the skis you're using (it's a common error) but it's nonsense. Your technique is the issue. Learn the proper skills on piste with a suitable piste ski and then move to a wider ski for deep snow skiing where you can put them into practice.
Don't know what your budget is but something like a Head Rally would be an excellent development tool that you won't outgrow as you get better.
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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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Not being funny but if you feel like your progress is being hindered by Volkl RTMs, you're either:
- An extremely good skier
- Tuning them badly (or not at all)
- Mistaken
Presuming it's not the second (which it could be - worth a look because if it is, you'll have the same problems on your new skis too), it's probably your technique, more than the skis.
The vast majority of people buy new skis because their old ones are battered, they want to achieve a different purpose (ie more float in deep snow) or just because they like having different things to play on for different days and it's all part of the fun. Very few people on here (or in general) are good enough to replace their skis because they're too good for them and being hindered by a poor ski.
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(The correct/appropriate set of) boots are more important than skis.................... And NOT too stiff!
Same with skis......, NOT too stiff.
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@carpski,
i'm completly with...
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(The correct/appropriate set of) boots are more important than skis.................... And NOT too stiff!
Same with skis......, NOT too stiff.
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I think something mid 70's waist - all mountain ( meaning it will do 'all mountain' ) will be fine.
I run Volkl Code Uvo of 76 waist - not scared of off-piste at all and RTM's are more 'All Mountain' than 'Code' series !
Agree with much of what Raceplate says above...
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