 Poster: A snowHead
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Hello,
I've got a daughter who is a member of the ski club for years. She is 12 years old, and obviously, soon the season starts. As usually, I am completing equipment for her, due to growth, everything must be adjusted. She is quite tall for her age - 167cm(~50kg). I decided to go with Head WCR iGS RD 176cm, r23 for giant, keeping in mind, she is well built but for longer distances, she needs a little lighter but still stiff and relatively heavy skis so I chose to pick a little shorter ones.
The problem I have is with the slalom skis. I am having an impression, that Head has changed its nomenclature, and relabeled the naming of skis and changed graphics/colors, which makes me extremely confused.
Can anyone tell me is there a difference between in iSL RD and iSL RD Team ? Is there iSL or eSL now ? I do not want to equip my kid with softer skis than she was equipped in the previous season. She is skiing very aggressively and her technique is on the expert level.
Best regards,
Darek
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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From looking at the Ultrafun and Ski Clinic websites, the e.SL RD Team looks to be a lower level ski than the e.SL RD.
What SL skis was she using last winter?
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| rjs wrote: |
From looking at the Ultrafun and Ski Clinic websites, the e.SL RD Team looks to be a lower level ski than the e.SL RD.
What SL skis was she using last winter? |
For slalom WRC i.SL RD team 150 cm, for now I am looking at 155-156cm.
For giant, i.GS RD team 165cm.
Right now, she is in the middle of juniors and adults, the 176cm giant skis are kinda on the edge, she should be slowly getting onto 181, but because of her health condition, she cannot manage very long distances having much heavier weights on her feet. Which means, it is going to be a transitional year onto equipment for masters.
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Maybe go with the e.SL RD 151cm rather than going to an adult ski?
For GS, I would also look at the gate distances of the typical courses she will be skiing in, a 12yo could still be in fairly tight courses. Have you spoken to her club coaches about the best length for her?
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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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| rjs wrote: |
Maybe go with the e.SL RD 151cm rather than going to an adult ski?
For GS, I would also look at the gate distances of the typical courses she will be skiing in, a 12yo could still be in fairly tight courses. Have you spoken to her club coaches about the best length for her? |
Of course, I am a very active parent, even coaching my kid setting courses by my own.
According to the given information, this season she is going to be competing with U14(being U12 herself), so the radius is not that tight, r23 should be okay for giant slalom. We have a simple math for calculating roughly the length of the skis. For SL it is 0,9 x height of racer, for GS it is roughly 1.1 x height of racer(among girls). Some of trainers are very ambitious, and even shorter and younger than my kid, was last season equipped with master skis, what in my opinion is a little crazy. My kid is well built, strong, so believe she will handle the transition, and that, must come at some point. Due to her height that is the time.
We need to be also precautions, in the end of last season, during the competition, her skis during the competitions were wobbling, she lost the balance and fell over. But still, she turned out to be fifth in giant slalom in Sweden, during an international party. Anyway, thank you very much for making me sure there is a difference between RD team and RD skis, that was the thing I was needing very much.
For giant she goes with iGS RD 176cm, for slalom, she will stay at 150cm iSL RD team(at least for now, due to her height - the season starts in 3 months, so if she gets to 1.70 of height, i will equip her with 155cm e-sl. But as I look at the head website right now, I do not see RD for slalom section. Now they divided their equipment into Rebel team and FIS and pro.
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