I finally got out on mine for the first time a couple of weeks ago and I love them. I'm 6'3 and about 225 and I had no issues with them at all. If you know how to ski, go with the 189's.
5'7" 150 ski 189 live life 1s with dukes center mounted as my shortish touring/ pow skis really like them in the pow super stable never worry about tip dive at all dont think i could if i tried .