Ideal ski width for scissoring?

werd.

werd.

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Couple questions. It seems like the main factor in how easy it is to scissor on rails is the width of the ski, am I completely wrong in saying this, and if I am what would you say makes a ski good for scissoring on rails? if I'm not wrong, what width in your opinion is the easiest to really set your edge hard into the rail? Basically I'm looking for a ski that's really easy to do high spins out of rails and easy to do really quick switchups/surface swaps on
 
You're right about narrow skis. I find it noticeably easier to scissor on my 86mm Chronics vs my 98 mm Al Dentes, although the Al Dentes are significantly longer so that's another factor to consider. Around 85 would be perfect IMO. Anything narrower and it'll be hard to balance.

For surface swaps, a ski without a lot of camber is ideal. Camber will make the ski feel "hooky" when you're pivoting on the rail. Any flat camber ski or rockered ski without camber would be ideal.

Combine these two traits and you'd have a great rail ski. Be warned though that a ski with no camber at all probably wont feel very stable on hard snow or at high speed.
 
Super easy to scissor on my K2 domains, 90 underfoot and 0 camber. Pretty much describes the ideal ski described by the poster above me
 
you dont need skis to scissor

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I had a feeling this was coming. Also, does anyone have any recommendations for a ski that slays rails and has a really low swing weight?
 
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