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As i can leave skis at our place I am looking for a specific offpiste ski, will not be the number 1 ski and can sit in the cave until conditions are good. i.e not really this year!
My prophet 90's in 179 are excellent, but a bit stiff for powder days and so would like something a little softer.
me 5 foot 9, 70 ish kg's reasonably ok off piste, struggle in crud a little. Would just like to make it a little easier as the prophets tip dive a bit off piste
I was looking at Blends in 178, s3 in 178, or shogun in 182...........s7's may be a bit big as i always ski in europe and would like them to be usable in the typical conditions we get here and also my left knee may not like something that wide, but i may just get used to it??
don't want to much crossover with the prophets, and that may rule out the shoguns?
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S7 would be my choice out of those three if it was a pure pow ski.
shogun looks like a great all round ski and i've skied with a lad who had them for a day and they certainly performed for him in various conditions. If it's a pow ski you're after though, there's a massive choice out there and bargains to be had.
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another vote for S7
the others overlap with your prophet 90s much more IMO
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shoogly, Would love it to be a pure powder ski, but don't get really deep very often and its more likely to be tracked, cruddy, lumpy and difficult at times, with nice powder sometimes if you look hard, so need something to cope with the yukky bits as well! So not sure if s7 is too focused?? so powder with other capabilites as well, which prophets do ok, but they don't do the powder bit so well.
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carroz, Have the Shoguns and Love them do a everything well, Piste is their week point but have had them in everything from Chopped up crud to bumps to powder and they have never failed.
S3 is a nice littel ski to as is the Vokl Mantra or movment Jam
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Arno, shoogly, Agreed the others do overlap with the prophets, If s7, what length 178 or 188, having looked at a pair of 188's they did seem enormous.
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Have a look at the S3 thread in this section for my user view
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| Arno, shoogly, Agreed the others do overlap with the prophets, If s7, what length 178 or 188, having looked at a pair of 188's they did seem enormous. |
I'd agree with them too, and you should definitely get the 188.
I'm the same height/weight as you, and ski the 190 Bibby's, which are fairly similar in design and purpose to the S7's. FWIW, even though the Bibbys are fatter, I still find them incredible versatile and fun in a wide range of Euro conditions, and I'd imagine the S7's would suprise you with their versatility too (not that I've skied them though).
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carroz, because of the rockered tip and tail, the S7 will fell quite short on piste so I'd size up if it was me. the rocker also makes skis like the S7 very easy to move around in soft snow. i have a similar-shaped pair of skis in a 190 (DPS 112RPs) and that is a about perfect for me, although i am a good bit bigger than you
i honestly think that if you get the S7 (or similar) you will find yourself skiing them a lot more than you think. although my 112s are (shock) 112 under foot, they are now firmly my everyday ski. i have some fatter ones which come out very occasionally if I know i'll be in powder all day and some thinner ones (105 underfoot) which i use for lightweight touring mostly. the sidecut on the 112s makes them fun to carve on firm snow and they work well in almost every off piste condition
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clarky999, Arno, shoogly, Thank you for all the advice, now (when they arrive) i am the owner of a pair of s7 in 188, now just got to decide where to mount them....!!!! They are going to get a look pivot on them, so can't move it once drilled, so need to get it right..... 
There is a thread on TGR most seem to ski them at 0, but some at -2.....its seems the original test versions the 0 mark was further back. I will not be riding switch in the powder on them, unless i am in the middle of a large mishap!
Shoguns were in the frame, but too much overlap with prophets (and my rather old misfits)
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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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carroz, enjoy!
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Have fun with 'em dude, hope you get a lot of pow days to play with them, especially if that happens to be in Tirol lol.
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