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I am afraid that I only tip the scales at a paltry 218cm. And they were a very dull pair of sloppy Salomons.
Someone, somewhere must do a whole load better than that?
(P.S. I am only 175cm myself so I am prepared to take height differential into account...)
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Am I the only person never to have skied skiis that were taller than me. 195s are my longest. (gosh that was a dull post)
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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223 Blizzard Thermo DH boards circa 1986. Surprisingly easy things to ski, incredibly stable and pivoted easily. Didn't seem that long because everyone was either on 210 GS skis or 203 SLs. Wouldn't swap back from the dwarf skis we get now though.
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Best I can do is 207, although they were my very own - $20 in the US Army thrift shop in Garmisch.
| David Murdoch wrote: |
| I am prepared to take height differential into account...) |
Oh well in that case Linds has it - I think I saw her on 170's once didn't I? 
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Various 213, 218, and 223 Salomon DH skis, and 213 Super G. All full Derbyflex, risers, 14 min setting DIN bindings.
Perfect for most wide open pistes unless you want to turnor avoid bump/people!
therefore I cannot beat the other 223. I have mates who have used circa 240's for speed skiing. Of course the short Japanese ski jumper probably have the best ratio of height to ski length.
give me 160-175 skis anyday.
(BTW anyone want any 200cm SL skis?)
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215 for me (Course GS) I think. Did ski some factory Lange SLs - must have been 205s.....felt like having two iron girders attached to my feet... not much bending there.
I remember wondering whether, on the last pair of straight skis I bought (P20SL's - lovely ski!) whether I could live with a ski as short as 190 !
and at 170 cms (I think) - I'm even shorter than David Murdoch,
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205 I think now on 166 - Give me the short curvey ones any day. 
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203 in Mont Tremblant, Canada. Straight as a die they were. Have had my photo taken with a pair of 228's. Ridiculous.
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I'm going to have a go to the shortest 'longest ski' in the thread ;D
173 cm salomons, while I stand 184 cm heigh;)
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hmmmm I've skied my instructors atomic race skis for a few hundred metres......(while he tried mine and pronounced them unskiable IIRC)
he is 6'3" tall... and those were his GS skis.... I have no idea of the number - but they were looooong
me - <160cm tall
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| Frosty the Snowman wrote: |
| Am I the only person never to have skied skiis that were taller than me. 195s are my longest. (gosh that was a dull post) |
no - in fact I have only ever skied 1 pair of skis shorter than me..... when I hired some in Italy they gave me these midget ski things that were lower than top of head height....
the italian instructors told me they gave me "english tourist" length.... (the downhill racer wants me to ski 170cm next time which he will get from some "friends" I'm thinking I'll end up on some uber stiff uber long-for me- skis and am trying to work out how to avoid the whole situation)
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| Frosty the Snowman wrote: |
| Am I the only person never to have skied skiis that were taller than me. 195s are my longest. (gosh that was a dull post) |
No, i top at 11cm shorter then me
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You know it makes sense.
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For me, 189 Movement PowPow Ltd. Ski test at Cas. (im only 175 high)
But the last 5 cm probably dont count because of the big notch in the tails 
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Atomic 215, huge great planks.
We didn't ski in the time when skis became shorter as we were having kids.
When we resumed ski-ing I hired some in Flaine and they presented me with some 178s, I remember saying something along the lines of "What the hell am I supposed to do with these tiny things".
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| little tiger wrote: |
hmmmm I've skied my instructors atomic race skis for a few hundred metres......(while he tried mine and pronounced them unskiable IIRC)
he is 6'3" tall... and those were his GS skis.... I have no idea of the number - but they were looooong
me - <160cm tall |
But you have the same length boots?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I tried a set of 205s at Pontypool a few years ago. They'd just had a new batch of Salomons in, and one of the instructors wanted to have a go on them so he swapped with mine. They were a tad fast for the wet Dendex and me.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| fatbob wrote: |
| little tiger wrote: |
hmmmm I've skied my instructors atomic race skis for a few hundred metres......(while he tried mine and pronounced them unskiable IIRC)
he is 6'3" tall... and those were his GS skis.... I have no idea of the number - but they were looooong
me - <160cm tall |
But you have the same length boots? |
at that stage - yes boot sole length same.....
instructor has VERY small feet for VERY large person.... this is good for the skis.... but not so great for his feet (having helped treat some of the pressure sores on those feet I can assure you of the second part)...
My feet are normal sort of size for me sized people... current sole length 284mm - a tad shorter than when we could swap skis.... We did need to change din settings - but a mutli-tool clipped to instructors pants takes care of that very fast...
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223 DH skis for a couple of runs and a pair of 249 Flying K boards for all of 500 metres....very scary
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Like other people who learnt in the '60s (at least in Norway) I had my first lessons on skis which reached my finger tips stretched above my head. My current everyday skis are eye-height...
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pam w, it does seem a rather 'date thyself' thread, doesn't it.
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pam w, agree with that one 1971 Austria ski length was worked out by putting hand in air and ski measured to finger tips
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228cm Atomics (?) I think. Longest owned 215cm Fischer RC4s.
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kevinrhead, comprex, that was when men were men and we wore goggles made of seal bones and chewed pemmican and were grateful to sit around a primus throwing a handful of tealeaves in the billy can prior to rolling in the snow and thrashing each other with birch twigs  . None of yer namby pamby on sweets and hot showers.
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I swapped skis with a friend for part of a run around 12 years ago - I think they were 227s. Not too easy to turn but smashed through everything once they got going. With hindsight I should probably have avoided the bumps though
There was a British female instructor who worked in Serre Che in the late '80s who wasn't much over 5'. She had a pair of 230s+ that she would regularly take out and ski pretty much anything on. Everyone used to watch in awe.
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I used to have a pair of 195cm K2 TRC with Marker M28 bindings, lord knows how I managed to ski them all day everyday.
I'm 1680cm tall, the K2s must have beel a full foot taller than me!
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In 1975 the son of the founder of Meribel, David Lindsay, lent me a pair of downhill skis to go down the Coire Cas on Cairngorm. He was doing a BASI 2 course on them, if I remember. Most people on the BASI 3 course were on skis at least 200cm long, and the interesting thing is that 'compact' skis (then 170cm to 190cm long) were frowned upon for ski instructing. Can't remember the length of those downhill skis, but I guess it was at least 220cm.
Bearing in mind that the original speed skiers - the goldminers of California in the Sierra in the 1860s - used skis 4m to 5m long, we're just playing at it!
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I ski on 205s at the moment. For XC. For downhill the longest I've used is 193cms
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You know it makes sense.
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I've skied only 205 Fischer WC SL skis which my shorter brother (just 180cm) owned. My own were 203. I never got to try the real WC GS stuff which was always between 210 and 215...
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acualtly thats 168cm.
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Poster: A snowHead
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| David Goldsmith wrote: |
Bearing in mind that the original speed skiers - the goldminers of California in the Sierra in the 1860s - used skis 4m to 5m long, we're just playing at it! |
You mean something like these longboards
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Dave Horsley, I'm not sure XCs count. Althoug, given the efforts involved I am inclined to give you the benefit!!
It's a fair comment that this does date some of us. I skied on 203 SL skis from 1984 until - oh - around 1996 I think then gradually reduced in length until finding myself on 167cm skis. Which is quite ridiculous.
It is interesting (for a whole bunch of reasons) doing the Inferno - where it has been usual to beg borrow or steal something a little straighter and narrower. I have no idea how I used to ski powder on my 203 SLs. Badly I guess. But the nicest things I have skied on (I know, I have mentioned this before) are the 210cm junior girls DH boards that a chum has. Allegedly genuine RD skis from Rossignol they are one of the nicest pair of boards I have riden. Silky, silky smooth - albeit immaculately tuned. Just a delight. Also just a little bit of a handful to carve on a narrow track...
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pam w, YOU HAD PEMMICAN?!?!
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no, sorry, poetic licence...  whale steaks, though, honest.
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I skied a pair of 223 downhill skis once - in a tight GS race! that's 58 cms over head height. The longest I ever owned were 207s Atomic red sleds (GS for you youngsters) - very fast, ex factory from Stuart Wilkie. I used to regularly ski around 200 - 203 which is 35ish cms over head. I much prefer my 155 - 165 modern skis though.
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Not the longest i've ever skiied, but comparitively, on my first skiing trip in 1991 i was 10 years old and about 4 1/2 foot tall. I have a picture of me on the slopes with a pair of Head 160's on my feet. 15 years on the skis i use now are only marginally longer
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My first tele skis were 200 cms....and that was with leather boots !
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205 GS skis. Rock solid at speed.
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1972 223cm Rossignol Descentes. A friend of mine bought them off a broke former US Ski Team member & I ended up buying them off him. I still have them mounted with some Look N77s if anyone wants to try them out.
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