DrZoidberg
Active member
I know it's NS, but I don't know where else to go.
I've been here since 2008. I'm getting to be old as fuck. I have 171 Magnus and 178 SFBs, but at this point I don't care if I all I do is lip blind 2s and forget about learning cork 7s or something. I know some people on here race or raced, or appreciate the carve, and there's some other aging members that want something other than park skis.
I want something very racey with a short turn radius (13m-16m ish) that's just under actual race skis in performance. I intend to demo some stuff, but the selection is likely going to be limited cause NJ/PA. I don't need or want fis reg stuff, but no beginner shit. I just don't want to be driving an F1 car when a regular racecar would do. These will be for NJ/PA mainly, maybe with excursions elsewhere. Typical EC conditions so groomers, ice, sometimes lumpy fake snow or melted slush. I'll try to keep them for when it's good for them, but inevitably I'll encounter non ideal conditions. Otherwise I'll bounce around the park doing the 10 tricks I have left, so I'm not trying to force these skis to do something they're bad at. I also don't want full on slalom skis because they hate long turns.
I'm good, my technique is good and I intend to ski fast and perhaps lose a pass. I don't even know where to start. A quick googling shows me things like atomic redster x9 exists, even a wider version which might deal with shit snow better. Dynastar makes something called 4x4s which are comically referred to as wide, and otherwise billed as racey carver skis. Otherwise it's all like 65mm waist stuff, which is fine I guess. Like I said I intend to demo, but since this isn't exactly ski country so there's likely not going to be a large selection.
I've been here since 2008. I'm getting to be old as fuck. I have 171 Magnus and 178 SFBs, but at this point I don't care if I all I do is lip blind 2s and forget about learning cork 7s or something. I know some people on here race or raced, or appreciate the carve, and there's some other aging members that want something other than park skis.
I want something very racey with a short turn radius (13m-16m ish) that's just under actual race skis in performance. I intend to demo some stuff, but the selection is likely going to be limited cause NJ/PA. I don't need or want fis reg stuff, but no beginner shit. I just don't want to be driving an F1 car when a regular racecar would do. These will be for NJ/PA mainly, maybe with excursions elsewhere. Typical EC conditions so groomers, ice, sometimes lumpy fake snow or melted slush. I'll try to keep them for when it's good for them, but inevitably I'll encounter non ideal conditions. Otherwise I'll bounce around the park doing the 10 tricks I have left, so I'm not trying to force these skis to do something they're bad at. I also don't want full on slalom skis because they hate long turns.
I'm good, my technique is good and I intend to ski fast and perhaps lose a pass. I don't even know where to start. A quick googling shows me things like atomic redster x9 exists, even a wider version which might deal with shit snow better. Dynastar makes something called 4x4s which are comically referred to as wide, and otherwise billed as racey carver skis. Otherwise it's all like 65mm waist stuff, which is fine I guess. Like I said I intend to demo, but since this isn't exactly ski country so there's likely not going to be a large selection.
