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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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ise,
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To be fair, I've had the skis (Stöckli Lasers) for a year and they're were pretty well used so the base was thin but I'm gutted
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Sad, though you do get to go and choose a new pair, which is always enjoyable  The end of season sales will be on soon as well. You seem to have used these skis a lot this winter, how many weeks/days usage?
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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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ise, Just looked at the pics. You had lovely fresh snow, so you took your slalom skis in favour of your Zags? 
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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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ise, Sorry to hear about your damage. Still - on the bright side, it's always good to have a pair of rock-hoppers. Leave the bindings on them and use them when it's too bad for your nice skis - very liberating!
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snowbunny, I don't know, enough days to get some sharp intakes of breath when I got Stöckli to service them recently, 80-100 days maybe I guess, just bad luck. I was thinking of buying another pair of Lasers as a spare pair, mine are last year and they're selling them at a discount, I thought I'd hang on to them as a spare pair and get the bindings swapped when I needed.
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They have lasted you much longer than your Volkl's. Better buy 2 pairs tomorrow, since they are on offer 
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It's so weird that I didn't notice doing it
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Too busy enjoying the powder, I suggest. If you had ripped through the base on the last day you had at Rougemont, as it looked like hardpack, I believe you would have felt it straightaway. Would probably still have happened though 
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Last edited by Then you can post your own questions or snow reports... on Thu 17-08-06 18:52; edited 1 time in total
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ise,
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James Wilkinson of Ski Academy Switzerland told me to do it I skied with him and the gap course before Xmas and he sent me some feedback, broadly, and I paraphrase slightly, "you're rubbish, really you'd be better off giving up and blading but if you insist on skiing then use slalom skis for everything". It's actually good advice, it's hard to ski powder and some variable on slalom skis but it radically alters the way you ski.
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Well, the advice seems to work for you. I admit to needing all the help I can get in variable and powder. Mind you, I have never tried a proper slalom ski, maybe it would be a revelation. Then again, your slalom skis, look just like a slightly oversize pair of blades really, can't be much difference in use
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Hi ISE,
What was his thinking on suggesting you ski slalom skis all the time?
regards,
Greg
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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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On something like pocket rockets or their ilk your balance can be way, way off, say 30' from a good stance, on a pair of slalom skis if you're off by even a small amount then you're somersaulting down the slope. As a much stiffer ski then you also have to be able handle the much greater forces being thrown back at you instead the ski damping them out, using that recoil of the ski becomes part of the way you turn after a while as well.
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ise, I do get the point, and as you know I often ski off piste on my Fischers, but I have to say that it's much easier on the Zags! Actually I think they feel and react very much like a slalom ski - I don't have to change the way I ski from the Fischers to Zags as I did when I switched to the Scratchs.
gregh, My slalom skis don't float, but are so stiff and heavy that they slice through everything!
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You know it makes sense.
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ise, but... wouldn't the tighter turn radius tend to make you a bit lazy? I know that's why club skiers are made to use their GS skis when not actually racing, in powder, trees, wherever....
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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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PS - can someone remind which slalom skis I tried out at L2A last October? I know I preferred all the pairs I tried out other than the ones ise liked best (something to do with my build/weight perhaps?)...
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Poster: A snowHead
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interesting, thanks alot, will defo take my slalom skis with me for easter then!!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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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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| ise, but... wouldn't the tighter turn radius tend to make you a bit lazy? I know that's why club skiers are made to use their GS skis when not actually racing, in powder, trees, wherever.... |
On some turns, on others it's harder work. The comparitive lack of flex will throw a weaker skier. And a longer GS will float better in powder of course.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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As I commented elsewhere, Stöckli reckon they can fix my Lasers and I've got a "relief" pair of Stormriders while they're doing it
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ise,
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As I commented elsewhere, Stöckli reckon they can fix my Lasers and I've got a "relief" pair of Stormriders while they're doing it
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Good news on the Lasers. And you are very fortunate being loaned some Stormriders. So, why are you not out there skiing on them 
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