 Poster: A snowHead
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Ive just returned from a week in the 3V's in which I started the week with some Dynastar Cham 2.0 97 (178) all mountain ski's and got on with them very well. Didn't do much off piste, due to the people I was skiing with, but they coped very well on the piste and even did the 3 valleys escapade on one day, so fast and strong riding on them.
As I could change them and conditions were going even more piste orientated, I swapped for some Dynastar Powerdrive 12 ti speed zone (174) carvers to see if I could improve my short turn technique. However.....it was a total disaster! I was like Bambi on ice....felt wrong right from the off and never really improved all day. But why? I have skied on similar before with no problem, but these skis skittered around and in the end were hurting my knees due to the lateral twisting. They would not grip in a straight traverse between turns or even on a turn they made me feel very twitchy. Was it me? 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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No probably just badly tuned
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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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Rental skis? As the others have said probably a bad tune, I have seen some truly awful tunes on rentals.
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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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I put my skis in for a service during a Pre-EOSB week a couple of years ago - and they came out similar to the descrition above. Virtually unskiable. Which unfortunately I only realised when I got off the top of Cine Caron I think. That was a fun ski back down - I had to snowplow as I couldn't trust the edges, so my legs were destroyed by the bottom  Turned out they had hanging burrs virtually the full length of all edges.
Thankfully they were my own skis, so I knew something was wrong with them - that must not have been fun for you @Rockape63 on an unfamiliar pair of skis!
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ah okay....thanks Guys. I couldn't change them for odd reasons, so did 20 miles on them. Was truly dire!
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On the bright side - I suspect your piste buddies thought it was suitably hilarious watching you negotiate a blue run like Norman Wisdom.
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Probably....although that was soon offset by the constant sound of my whining! 
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skiing with a bur down the whole edge of the ski sucks. One of the reasons i learnt to service my own gear, and carry a gummy stone and mini file in my pocket for removing those pesky burs.
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