Is the al dente too soft for your liking?

its too soft for certain styles of skiing. if you want to bomb all mountain through crud at high speeds, this ski is not for you. it wants to make lots of quick turns.

if you want to be able to butter, press, jump, and carve with ease, then its a lot of fun. it makes your park skiing go outside the box.

im getting a pair.
 
I loved them when I skied them. I tested them at whistler back in February. The snow down the bottom was hard and icy but there was some fresh up by the park. I tested them through the whistler park then back down red and down dave murry as the tents were on the timing flats. As an all mnt ski they were awsome. You could ski them supper hard. The tips are soft but underfoot an in the tail there is enough stiffness to really ski them hard. They were great in soft snow thanks to the long rocker nose. In the park they were really buttery and playfull but I would not get them as a pure park ski. On dave murry they really came into there own. I could ski them faster there then just about any other ski I tried. They like mid to long turns and were very stable. I got 110kmh through coaches corner and they never felt like skidding or buckling. So if your after a really playfull all mtn ski that you can still ski really hard and fast go for them. As reference I'm 5'11, 170 lbs, been skiing for 25 years and tried the 188 at recommended.
 
If you're afraid of them being too soft just get the arv ti. Same ski just stiffer and maybe different type of base or something.
 
I just spent 600 on them 2 days ago and threw my pivots on them. Overall from like a flex test using my arms and just flexing them they weren't like "holy shit there so flexy" but when u ride em it's probs a different story. I'm picking mine up after school and taking out skiing sunday
 
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