 Poster: A snowHead
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| Spyderman wrote: |
| rob@rar, I skied the Swiss Wall in Avoriaz on my Dynastar Omeglass 156cm. Talk about hard work, I was destroyed at the bottom. |
I used to have a pair of Head WC slalmom skis which were 155. I couldn't ski on them for more than a couple of days without getting exhausted. I just wasn't man enough to tame them!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| CEM wrote: |
| there are several good skis out there at a price of £300- £350 ish |
You pay THAT MUCH for skis!!! 
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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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rob@rar, Yep, those World Cup wooses only manage 60 seconds at a time. 
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I'll jump in here with out having time to read all this through.
I ended up on a cheap pair of 2mtr Course GS and I could just about handle them on nice forgiving pistes. They tanked along and I got quite whizzy on them until I HAD to turn them in tighter situations and they were too much for me. Now I am more skilled, IMV, I don't have any trouble jumping on hi-spec skis so if a ski is deemed expert, well, I have handled enough of them before not to be too concerned. But when these skis have a rider that says you need to be a powerful technical skier...well, what does that mean...?? Stocklis are supposed to be uncompromising but at what point of the skill level does that description have any relevance? Now I know that I can handle stiff skis upto about 190 and I weigh in at 80-85kgs so I am careful to not bite off too much as I need to be able to bend them.
When I hire a ski, I'll talk to the tech and tell him what I want to do... I don't overstate my requirements but tell him I think I'm a reasonable slier and then qualify it a bit more. Bearing in mind that the tech is probably local and has been skiing since the age of 3 and a junior racer etc etc, I am not out to impress him... 
He generally puts a ski my way and I either know something about it or decide to take a punt. I have given him my deatils in good faith and I'll take his recommendation the same way. I don't expect to be given a wildly inapproprate ski and can't remener the last time I got one. Most techs have turned me onto a good ski and therefore 'educated' me on something I hadn't considered before. This year it was the Mantra and that is now the ski I'll seek out, other success stories have been the BD series and Movement spark...all better skis than the wishlist I started out with this year.
The more you know and try different skis, the more you can build up a picture of the buzz words and what the attributes actually mean but there is no real substitute for trying them. As I have gotten better, I am no longer fazed by what a ski is supposed to do but my experience is that it is not so good to have a ski that is too far ahead of your ability. But then again, I think skis are more forgivable across the range these days so you can be intermediate skier and ski an advanced-expert ski, the marketeers know this and will charge for people's vanity.
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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 think skis are more forgivable across the range these days so you can be intermediate skier and ski an advanced-expert ski, the marketeers know this and will charge for people's vanity.
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Right on! 
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| CEM wrote: |
| graeme wrote: |
| does it matter? why not buy what you want to buy? without other trying to find any reasoning behind it. |
ok you do that, by why spend more than you need to???, i seem to remember you were always looking for the deal of the century...... so if 2 hours lessons would change your technique to a point that enabled you ski a lower spec ski better then would you not want to save possibly £100+ ...if not just carry on as before, me i am just trying to look into the reasons why people do what they do  |
i want the gear i want at the cheapest possible price, please note, the gear i choose to buy, not what some appointed expert determines i should use.
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CEM I suspect the humour on this thread underlines your own own opinions !
i.e - Boots & Lessons to Go, Skis for Show
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There is no thing as a bad ski. How ever, buying the wrong colour is punishable by bad nasty things.
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