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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I think your daughter will be out of those skis next year, but am happy to be contradicted. I would definitely stick to junior skis to age 14+ provided they are well-chosen. After that it is difficult to say. My son is nearly 15, 170cm and 55kg, races (but is not at a particularly high level) and is just about moving to adult skis, after skiing on junior racing skis.
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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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As she wasn't really interested in race skis I got my daughter (now 14) a pair of 144 cm ladies skis (Elan My Spice) when she was 12 and they lasted her 2 seasons (about 5 weeks skiing). She had no problem with them and this year she has changed to a pair of 155 cm ladies twin tips (Dynastar She's trouble). I got both pairs in summer sales (both from Filarinskis) with 40 - 50% off. I guess you would need to get unisex ones to cover both children, it may be more of a problem then to get something as short as mid 140's in adult skis.
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| sukuinage wrote: |
| which got me to thinking about when kids should move from junior to adult skis. |
When you can afford it.
Only partly a joke. Junior gear is designed to be affordable.
Some of the adult pixies here would do nicely on junior skis and save fistfuls of money at it too.
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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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The manufacturers now almost all do small sizes in ladies' skis that suit older girls, so look out for the shorter skis in adult ranges.
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I think it depends more on the child's size, weight and strength than anything else. In the old days when long skis were the thing i used adult skis from a young age, maybe 14 or so (i was still pretty small then). But recently I've used a junior boy's ski (i'm female) for dry slope race training and it's been fine for me.
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The skis at our local dry slope are stickered with a maximum weight of 45kg for junior skis. I doubt that they'll break if overloaded by a couple of kilos, but possibly they won't perform properly. Likewise, some short skis are stickered with a minimum weight (and height), so are presumably too stiff for children.
At 43kg and 153, she's close to the height and size for something like a 145 adult ski or longer if appropriate to ability.
For growing children, it's worth checking out the settings. A change of boots can mean a different sole length which may need a different DIN,(depending on height and weight as well). Junior bindings sometimes only go up to 7.
Possibly worth asking around at this time of year there are quite a lot of end of season reductions.
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Hmmm. I'm interested in this - a few weeks ago, we were skiing and my wife decided to try for a day and loved it. The hire shop gave her 130cm skis (she can't remember what make) because she is only 140cm tall (about 55kg/120lb) that makes her short enough for junior skis but too heavy. I can't find any adult skis at 130cm so she must have been on juniors? I'm now looking for a pair for her for next season but as she is so short and only on snow plough on very very basic slopes will kids skis be ok? 
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and are fit as they do a lot of sport (mainly swimming & judo) so, whilst they would not be pushing adult race skis at 13 they may well be at 17.
