 Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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monkey1, crikey, that should come with a health warning. It's made my eyes hurt. 
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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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......... at last skis that will match my 80's fartbag 
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Haha! It is all a bit colourful - the 80s are back it seems. Why do economic downturns always produce questionable colourways?
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RachelQ, Nah, testing skis, that is the top job...
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I may be wrong but none of these designs says RACE ME???????
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Dynastar have gone over the top again I see.....!!!!
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A bloke in the pub whose friend of a friend had a relative who worked in the sports industry said the industry got together every year to decide which colours / designs would be "in" for the following season. After looking at those pics I'm thinking they didn't come to an agreement this year.
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SMALLZOOKEEPER, how boring... you would of thought a team, with some of the worlds best deisgners could have come up with better than that...
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Liam and SMZK, what do you mean?
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Is it just me or is Storm's line up all very similar to last years in terms of graphics. The new twisted-sista ski looks good but besides that....
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Are all the designers snowboarders?
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You know it makes sense.
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There are some scary 80s retro graphics going on there.
They all seem to be fat skis too? Where are the normal skis for normal people?
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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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they just blew up my monitor
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Poster: A snowHead
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ricfrench, Haha
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Liveezy, you're right, the Storm graphics do look the same, still only their second year in, hopefully they were focusing on the skiability of the product...
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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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clarky999, I was just refering to the legend series, the simple graphics
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What do people think about the CoreUPT show, where the graphics were not shown, just blank skis? Marketing or the start of the end?????
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Surely it can't be the end for CoreUPT, aren't they owned by Danone or something - I'm sure they could afford to keep it going, plus they've just signed a load of new riders for their team - must be marketing.
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| queen bodecia wrote: |
| They all seem to be fat skis too? Where are the normal skis for normal people? |
I was thinking the same...
Only had a glance, but they're nearly all twin-tips too.
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Mind you, I don't know how they make any money - is it true you can only get them online? Who would buy a pair of skis they couldn't see or touch?
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My eyes hurt
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monkey1, The company may have alot of cash, no doubt, but they sell skis don't they. I wouldn't pay for a stand at ISPO purely to say, designs coming soon........
No matter how much money you want to throw at a project, the investors (being the key term) will expect a sign of a return at some point, we're now 3 years in................
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SMALLZOOKEEPER, fair point, but if the company was going tits up surely it would be equally pointless to get a stand at ISPO just to say "now you see us, now you don't"
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monkey1, They have an investment to protect, better not being their and maybe launching at the X. Games Tignes., which perhaps they will as primary sponsor.
Incidentally, Candide will be the french commentator on Cannel+ instead of competing. We have all seen him at the FWT, he's fit, so surely that's an admission that he is no longer a contender for such events.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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feck.... Market's wide open for anyone that can produce a "clean" looking graphic for all the freeride wrinklies. I do like the Hellbent's scary clown - good for freaking out kids in the cable car. Have faction resolved their issues with Gene Simmons?
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SMALLZOOKEEPER, Yeah think he's done for slopestyle certainly, though I heard a rumour he was going to get back in the pipe over the summer with a view to competing next season
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You know it makes sense.
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Market's wide open for anyone that can produce a "clean" looking graphic
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Isn't that what Dynastar have done? There namings a bit funny though, Big Dump is comical and Sixth Sense is a bit wimpy. Sixth Sense big hardly has a ring to it either, dunno why they changed it form Big Trouble...
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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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Poster: A snowHead
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Monium, don't be ridiculous, of course you are, most of the twin tips these days are actually really good to ski on the piste and all over the hill, in fact they are generally very good all-mountain skis, and the some of the park skis, like the Head J.O Pro or Amplid C7 are great for carving, don't let the twin tip put you off.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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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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clarky999, I'm guessing that's what it is. There must be far more 'normal' skiers like me in the world than there are specialist off-piste and/or park skiers.
Hopefully the 'normal' skis have slightly more palatable graphics too. 
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Although I wonder what the proportion of 'normal' skiers with freeride aspirations is... I imagine that's who most of the money for twintips comes from!
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| monkey1 wrote: |
| Monium, don't be ridiculous, of course you are, most of the twin tips these days are actually really good to ski on the piste and all over the hill, in fact they are generally very good all-mountain skis, and the some of the park skis, like the Head J.O Pro or Amplid C7 are great for carving, don't let the twin tip put you off. |
Interesting ...very interesting. 
I've always fancied a cool looking twin-tip (purely for the asthetic/looks) - but had assumed there would be a pay-off in how well the actually work for the average skier.
So, which twin-tips do you reckon would be a good for mainly on-piste (with a bit of playing around, off the side of pistes)?
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I don't even know what 'freeride' means!
But I have no aspirations to off-piste or park. I don't have the youth, ability, insurance or inclination.
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abj, Amplid C7 is specifically designed to perform on piste and the Head J.O Pro is pretty good as well just because they are quite stiff for a park ski so they can hold an edge on a bullet proof piste at warp speed. Volkl, Dynastar, and Blizzard all have park skis at the stiffer end of the spectrum as well, and the Armada Pipe Cleaners are pretty good at holding an edge too - they are specifically designed to grip the walls of an icy pipe, which isn't really that different to gripping on a carve on the piste. If you want something to occassionally head off-piste with, go for something like the Volkl Bridge, they are a kind of one ski to do it all. Most brands have something similar, but this is the one I've heard most about.
Hope that helps
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I have no aspirations to race, so a WC Tech 15x DoubleLamoTurbo OversiZed Radical Concept Proflex RXC4312678 with go faster stripes drawn on it by a colourblind ex-racer with no sense of form is not what I'd consider a ski for normal people (especially when that ski is in fact nothing of the sort and is simply a bog standard job with WC Tech 15x DoubleLamoTurbo OversiZed Radical Concept Proflex RXC4312678 printed on the top of it to appeal to the sort of people who ride 50cc motorscooters with Rossi '46' livery on and a fag company's name down the side).
For a given value of 'normal' of course. Who knows, you may all be freaks
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Cunners, Genius!!
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| queen bodecia wrote: |
clarky999, I'm guessing that's what it is. There must be far more 'normal' skiers like me in the world than there are specialist off-piste and/or park skiers.
Hopefully the 'normal' skis have slightly more palatable graphics too. |
The problem is that "normal" skiers tend to go for 1 week's hol a year (or a couple of weekends in N America). They are more likely to rent than buy and if they do buy at 6 days use pa they aren't going to need new skis any time in a decade. So they hardly get to dictate the market in terms of innovation.
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FAQ
(I'm only disappointed as I'm nowhere near cool enough to own such a thing... 