Poster: A snowHead
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hoping someone can fill me in on the advantages /disadvantages of blades as opposed to normal skis. Are they suitable for beginners or do you need to master skis first ?
tia
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Do real skis first. Then play for an afternoon on blades (rental shop can probably lend a pair for peanuts for a half day).
Advantages... the carve ones a laugh on big wide open uniform well pisted slopes if/when you can get them right up on edge, they are probably a laugh in the funpark
Disadvantages... they don't work in powder, if you have a bad stance they are a disaster on steep icy slopes
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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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Advantages: can be bloody good fun!
Disadvantages: everything else. (But, occassionally, a bit of 'different' fun is nice - variety's the spice of life after all).
I spend the (very, very) occassional day on blades, usually when my skis are being serviced.
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From what I've seen of others using them, I'd say there are zero advantages!
I've seen maybe a couple of people looking confident on them. The rest seemed like ducks on a frozen lake.
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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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Advantage: short. This means a short published turn radius so they carve short turns. This also means they are easy to skid. Some people conflate "carve short turns" and "easy to skid" into "easy to turn". The ones with fat waists (80 mm and up) have an advantage of having a wider base of support when not edged, so are easier to control because slower to respond to irregularities in the snow.
Disadvantage: short. This means that being easy to skid intentionally on hero snow they will unintentionally skid on ice. This means that the base of support, when edged or not, is shorter and thereby smaller, requiring better front-to-back balance. The ones with fat waists (80 mm and up) have a disadvantage of having a longer distance to the edged base of support, requiring bigger moves to get the skier's center of mass onto the base of support.
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