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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Judging from your name, shouldn't you know without asking us 
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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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| fallliner wrote: |
| What is the Fall Line Ski of the Year? |
It's the ski which the Fall Line magazine writers most like overall after testing.
Cheers!
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Not another Scott this year...??
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fallliner, Whichever one takes you to the best resort, snow, bar to 'test' them 
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Is it one of these then?
Skis.
Ski-wise we think the award for the most refreshed new range goes to Atomic, which has worked hard to deliver a clean set of piste, all-mountain and freeride skis. We're liking the Snoop and the Coax - around the 90-100mm underfoot mark.
K2. has developed its range to take advantage of the frontcountry and sidecountry groupings, bringing the old Apache Outlaw into this sector, along with the Coomba - now 'Coomback' - and a series of other skis you can stick alpine, touring or telemark bindings on.
Fischer. have give the Watea freeride range a bow from the 94mm underfoot and up - it's like a boat, but for powder.
Salomon .have stuck a ski between the Lord and the Czar, again with about 100m underfoot, called the Shogun. With a bit of rocker, full wood core and cap conscruction it's light and looking to displace the Lord as Salomon's top seller.
Line. have an all-out jib ski - the Afterbang - made almost entirely of wood laminate for shock absorbtion, eco-reasons etc.
Dynastar's. naming department excelled themselves with their entry into the giant powder market, charmingly called the 'Big Dump'. After a relentless diet of German wurst, I can see where they get the inspiration...
Scott. are heading backcountry with a £700 superlight carbon ski, plus bespoke skins. We suspect it's because Herve the designer wants to go there. For the rest of us there are some outstanding graphic treatments, particularly on the Fall-Line fave Mission 
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Big dump FTW
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Was this ever announced last year - I recall a huge thread, but don't recall seeing the winner announced - what won last year please?
Last edited by snowHeads are a friendly bunch. on Thu 27-08-09 21:35; edited 1 time in total
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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I thought the Lords won last year?
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fr0sty, have we met ?
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You know it makes sense.
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Frosty,
your name sounds familiar...
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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I think it still has to be a big company, freeride ish but not too scary for a Euro skiing office cubicle monkey so Big Dumps or Coomback maybe. Not based on having skied them or anything as scientific as that. Movement have been making good stuff for years though so maybe they've got up there - Sluffs?
Storm Inferno or Whitedot One would show some love for the "native ish" industry (assuming native encompasses hairy assed Kiwis and Verbier residents) though, maybe an honourable mention for what they've got right 1st time out.
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Poster: A snowHead
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He isn't going to say. I guess we'd have to subscribe to find out. Who cares.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| erica2004 wrote: |
| He isn't going to say. I guess we'd have to subscribe to find out. :~/ Who cares. |
Well put. What do correct guesses get?
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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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| erica2004 wrote: |
| He isn't going to say. I guess we'd have to subscribe to find out. Who cares. |
Nah read it in WH Smiths.
Actually to be fair to fallliner he usually posts it up and gives a few mag subscriptions away to shs or ensures the free gifts are too good to resist.
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Ah, I'm good at this forum stuff - say something and then go swimming in a lake for a few days. Quite cold, lakes. I wasn't in in for a few days BTW, it just happened that in between posting and this I've been warming up.
Now then, who is spending the most with us this year... Actually, most spend has been cut back so there's no obvious candidate. [There was a bit in here but I've taken it out because it caused offence, though not intentionally. I have apologised to the person concerned - see below]
The Mission is still one of the Best Skis in the World according to me, at least, and at £155 it gets even better. What we're looking for is something new that doesn't appear to be a total marketing scam, and amongst the stuff that genuinely seems to work we found rocker... We also tend to look for something that doesn't take immense skill and strength to ski - actually, ratchet that down a bit to get skis like the Lord and the Punisher (ahead of the Scott Crusade and Volkl Mantra respectively because they need you to be in better shape than we start any season).
Herve the Scott designer is famous for designing ace skis and also slipping in something to spice his own life up - I went on a test a couple of years back and there were lots of very large, fat skis around, plus a gargantuan pair of Crusades which he'd knocked up 'to test'. The new Crusair has a bit of a specialist feel to it but is more useful than you'd think.
Last edited by You need to Login to know who's really who. on Wed 2-09-09 19:41; edited 1 time in total
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Well. You're certainly honest and up-front about your criteria.
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fallliner,The Mission is still one of the Best Skis in the World according to me, at least, and at £155 it gets even better.
£155........ where
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| fallliner wrote: |
| A few smaller brands aren't spending with us, Andrew Phyn of WhiteDot Freeride please take note may his formica-cored lumps of firewood stay forever in the rack gathering dust etc etc etc [We're testing a pair shortly in which case this view might change. Unlikely, but possible]. |
This is quite interesting. You're prepared to slag off a ski that you haven't skied, and even once you have skied it have already decided that you're not going to like it, regardless of how it skis. Hahahahahaaaaa.
Awesome. You don't sound like too much of a d1ck.
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| fallliner wrote: |
| Andrew Phyn of WhiteDot Freeride please take note may his formica-cored lumps of firewood stay forever in the rack gathering dust etc etc etc [We're testing a pair shortly in which case this view might change. Unlikely, but possible]. |
The fact that you named the individual, rather than simply the Company or indeed the ski which you dislike, speaks volumes.
+1 with parlor imho...
(oh, and £155 for a pair of Missions - what have you been smoking mate?)
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^^^ I'm hoping it's some kind of in-joke between the people involved but if you take it at face value it's lame and doesn't reflect well on fallliner no matter what the disagreement with WhiteDot may be
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fallliner, I'm holding on the phone for you so you can explain in person the personal attack.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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fallliner, hope you're not swimming in a lake now. My popcorn is ready to go.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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fallliner, Unless that was tongue in cheek, you are way out o'line and just lost a reader 
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Ah, just got the heads up on this. And just spoken to Andrew to square things up.
Identifying one company in this way does seem churlish, however it's meant. I'm publicly sorry about that.
The issue is that the winky thing that's supposed to go on the end of that vitriolic attack isn't there in the post, thereby the witty negation of all that nastiness hasn't happened so it just looks like I'm being nasty.
Just to set the record as straight as possible, Whitedot and Fall-Line have a decent relationship and we are genuinely looking forward to testing their skis which should happen both in the domes and on the snow in the near future. We've followed the process of development over the forum and through conversations over the past couple of years, are planning a factory visit and doing some team rider stuff.
So do berate me for lack of ability to use this forum properly - over the years my laughable attempts to put any pictures up should back this up - but don't think that Fall-Line bears any ill will to WhiteDot or people therein. Or indeed any manufacturer whether they advertise or not - their skis still get reviewed and it has so far never been the biggest advertiser who gets the ski of the year award (and won't be this year).
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You know it makes sense.
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God I hate the Mission. Such a nasty crutch ski. Your mancrush on their designer is weird, Scott's skis have seemed formulaic and uninteresting for the last few years - they were the only company with zero rocker in their lineup last year no? Everything I've tried skis like the training wheels are on them.
I'll note I've tried the Mission, Punisher and P4 over a couple of generations. To diss them untested, even if my view is anecdotal, would make me a bit of a cock - wouldn't you agree?
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Thanks guys. The truth always outs.
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PS for those not in the know our cores are true tip to tail poplar/ash cores and to date we've not had one delamination. fallliner, let us hope that when you do test our skis all preconceived ideas and opinions are set aside so the facts can speak for themselves.
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Poster: A snowHead
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| What is the Fall Line Ski of the Year? |
Who cares?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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kiwi1, when you gonna get some Freeskier and Powder writeups?
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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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comprex, We've got an agent in Tahoe this season so hopefully soon.
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kiwi1, don't suppose you're sending some White Dots out to the testing weekend at Avoriaz tomorrow??
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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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fallliner,Give us some info on black crows sometime....
okbye
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| comprex wrote: |
| kiwi1, when you gonna get some Freeskier and Powder writeups? |
no mention of WDF, but the November edition of Powder magazine as read by me in Houston airport did carry an interview with Glenn Plake in which he described his best day's skiing from last year .... he apparently spent it with one Fred Syverson [sic], WDF's very own pro.
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Fall line's reviews are poor and are often at odds with other more is depth reviews elsewhere.
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Ohhhh. It's a guessing game.
