 Poster: A snowHead
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I'm going shopping tomorrow & I might buy some skis for my 6 year old son.
How do I work out the correct length ski for him?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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ssnowman, Chin Height
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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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Spyderman, thanks. I bought him a helmet & goggles yesterday & he's hardly taken them off, god knows what he'll be like if I get him some skis.
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ssnowman, Watch him on your stairs 
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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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ssnowman, has he got boots? If you're not going skiing for a while, beware; their feet grow in fits and starts and I remember one year buying new school shoes at the beginning of the summer holidays, in a sale, only to find my son had grown out of them by September! I remember buying life jackets for my two, then stopping in a riverside pub on the way home to celebrate (having also bought a sailing dinghy!). They insisted on wearing them to run around in the pub garden, which was well fenced from the river. The other drinkers clearly thought we were neurotic parents!
Chin height sounds good. Easiski recommended chest height, but that was for my 4 year old grand daughter.
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ssnowman, Snow & Rock do a buy back scheme for kids, I bought several pairs for my kids from S & R's stock of boots that were bought back. Second hand but some only had a couple of days use. Bargain prices. 
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| Spyderman wrote: |
| Snow & Rock do a buy back scheme for kids |
And Lockwoods (although they publicise it less).
Also ask around your local ski club. There is a thriving 2nd/3rd/4th hand market for boots and skis at ours - so much so that #1son has three pairs of skis being offered to him at the moment. Unfortunately it's boots that he's about to outgrow....
And I'd agree with chin height.
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ssnowman, I recently wrote about this in my blog (http://homeboyski.com/2007/10/31/christmas-is-coming-looking-for-junior-alpine-skis/). A friend of mine runs a ski shop here in Helsinki, and he said the right lenght of a junior ski is from ground to the tip of his/her nose.
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