 Poster: A snowHead
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My friend is 5'1". She and hubby bought an apartment like ours after coming out for several holidays, so she skis quite a few weeks a year. She's not fast, but has good and solid technique. Exclusively on-piste. She's been using Wedze short skis but has been persuaded to get some "proper" skis and is looking in the sales. We're off to Albertville this afternoon to see what Decathlon and the Vieux Campeur have to offer. Snow and Rock outlet also has some good possibilities.
She's short, but not particularly light - between 9 and 10 stone. She was looking at skis around 140cm. Is that about right? I don't have any skis that short for her to try, my shortest are 156cm.
Snow and Rock outlet have quite a lot on offer but getting those means she won't be able to use them this year, which would be a shame as they're out here till 27 March.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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pam w, A bit short I would have thought. I got my daughter 144's when she was 12 and about that height but significantly lighter.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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pam w, my statistics are not dissimilar, perhaps a smidgeon taller and lighter, but I ski on 152s. 149 is as short as I've gone, 140 sounds a bit short to me (not that I'm qualified in such matters.)
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thanks - will pass that on. 
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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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pam w, 150-153 depending on the ski, I am skiing on a 156 but it's a twin-tip. 140 is definitely too short I think. Easiski might have suggested something as short as a 146 in a purely on-piste carving ski.
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pam w, I am about 5 foot and a very important half inch - about 8 and a half stone and I my skis are 146 and are just perfect for me. Rossignol Attraction V which I bought here about 4 or 5 years ago. I am very happy with that length but would not go any shorter.
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very grateful to all the pixies - we are about to go down to Albertville and with your advice I now feel confident to persuade her against 140cm!
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Pixies of the world unite! 
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pam w, I still don't own any skis, so would be interested to hear what she gets. I'd like to think I will be skiing more in the not too distant future and it then might be worth having my own skis.
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