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advantages /disadvantages of blades?

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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
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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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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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hired a set at the end of my first ski hol
tried em, loved em, never had skis since.

as a beginner they give you the confidence of being able to turn and stop, and that makes the holiday fun instead of scary Smile
they are more forgiving than skis (if you have lazy legs ,like me, and trail the ski tail ) enabling you to step out of any wobble without crossing the skis and taking a tumble

as an intermediate there's less to lug around and no poles \o/

some interesting safety information on release binding settings for skiboards can be found here http://www.ski-injury.com/snowblade.htm that doesnt seem widely known.
we have Head big-easy skiboards and my wife needed to hire boots last time out and the hire shop set the bindings to normal ski settings, and as i had no screwdriver, i had to persuade them to drop the setting on the heel

if you can roller-skate or ice-skate you can skiboard Smile
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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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