Those skis are amazingly different. Bacons are super soft and flexy, shaped like a snowboard and rides like nothing else that's been made. If you plan on dropign huge ass cliffs and skiing really fast it's not the ski for you. If you plan on having fun, turning, switch in powder, 180s off average cliffs and what not (pretty much if you wanna ski like eric pollard and who wouldn't) you should get the Bacons. The gotamas are more of a stiffer charging hard ski if I'm not mistaken (I may be getting mixed up on my volkl skis here)