08/09 Armada T-Hall Mounting
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wtf, this again? every day there is at least one AR6, Thall, or PC mounting thread.
For Thalls I would say -1.5 is best. Just because you are using a ski in park doesn't mean it should be centered. For PCs and AR6s, -2 or -2.5, but since these are MADE for jibbing I think -1.5 might make more sense than it would on the other two(even if you are using the other two to jib). It fucks up a ski to go too far past recommended, and IMO unless a ski is made to be mounted center it never works best there.
For Thalls I would say -1.5 is best. Just because you are using a ski in park doesn't mean it should be centered. For PCs and AR6s, -2 or -2.5, but since these are MADE for jibbing I think -1.5 might make more sense than it would on the other two(even if you are using the other two to jib). It fucks up a ski to go too far past recommended, and IMO unless a ski is made to be mounted center it never works best there.
do you think it fucks up the rear flex point by moving it farther away, though? I honestly haven't skied these, just PCs and AR6s, and I think those ski by far the best at -2 for anything in park(rails, jumps, pipe, skiing anything switch) but since I haven't skied these, I won't talk a ton about mounting them.
I understand the whole swing weight arguments thought, but I could spin just as good on the same ski mounted -2.5 as I could center, I don't believe that it makes a noticalbe difference even though most of this site believes it does. And on balancing on rails, I weigh 155+lbs, I don't think that a few cm more of ski on one side of a rail is going to throw me off balance at all. Oh and the third argument(that you didn't make so maby you agree with this) is that a ski mounted center rides better switch, but I started skiing switch on 175 GS skis no problem(and they can carve switch). For fun on groomers, I would ski my 188 Coombas switch, which might have been mounted a double digit number of cm behind center. A ski mounted two back isn't going to loose switch performance in my mind anyway. I will say that Armadas mounted center won't fuck up the flex as much as it does on Chronics, though.
I understand the whole swing weight arguments thought, but I could spin just as good on the same ski mounted -2.5 as I could center, I don't believe that it makes a noticalbe difference even though most of this site believes it does. And on balancing on rails, I weigh 155+lbs, I don't think that a few cm more of ski on one side of a rail is going to throw me off balance at all. Oh and the third argument(that you didn't make so maby you agree with this) is that a ski mounted center rides better switch, but I started skiing switch on 175 GS skis no problem(and they can carve switch). For fun on groomers, I would ski my 188 Coombas switch, which might have been mounted a double digit number of cm behind center. A ski mounted two back isn't going to loose switch performance in my mind anyway. I will say that Armadas mounted center won't fuck up the flex as much as it does on Chronics, though.
Lithoidfilms
Member
Yeah, im looking at getting the 2010 ar6 this year but i dont think i want center mount, i can ride my obsethed fine switch and they are mounted at recommended and those are what i rode for park last year and they worked fine, those are what i got my sevens on finnally, but i moved my old thrusters mounting forward some and i feel it destroyed the skis performance, when i would try to carve switch it would make me catch an edge and eat it. buts thats just my opinnion. i figure there is a reason that not all dedicated park skis are symmetrical.
Dustin.
Active member
Don't center mount them, there is no need to. T-Hall, Jacob, etc...they all ride them at -2.5. If you really think you know more about the way the skis ride than these guys, mount them center. My Pipecleaners are at -2.5 and they feel no different than my other park skis at center.
exactly. There are so many people that say "if you are skiing it in park mount center" but that's not right. For a symmetrical ski(I only like shorter symmetrical skis for jibbing, that's it) a center mount is all you can do, but for a ski like AR6s/PCs/Chronics/S4s/TNKs it just fucks up carving(forward and switch) if you center mount it, but people do it because they read they should. Oh and then if the ski works alright there, they think it works best there, and they tell everybody else to mount there too(because they don't understand that mounted back the ski would work better) and this never ends..