K2 Silencers

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I have K2 Silencers that are mounted at recommended. Will these be good for park? Jumps? Rails/boxes?

+karma for help+
 
Center = More balance on rail, better for switch, playfulness... it's more freestyle.

Behind center = More polyvalent, better all mountain performance.... That's if you ride everything

My bindings are in the center and i love it. I ride Park most of the time but it does well for a little bit of all mountain condition.

The question is: Do you ride more park or more all mountain. And anyway, behind center bindings can endure parks and center bindings can endure all mountain.
 
at 80 in the waist, I cannot see that actually being all-mountain. It's just a stiffer park ski and retarded marketing.
 
thank you for using polyvalent in your reply. your mastery of the english language far supersedes the average NSer.

candy, all mountain is a very general term. for someone who lives on the east coast, the silencer is definitely an all mountain ski. i know, i have a pair, and skied them for everything from park to bumps to trees to groomers. we don't get multiple feet of snow in one dumping, so 80mm in the waist is plenty wide for most everything here.

OP, i have mine mounted at core center, which works pretty well for everything, but if i were using them for strictly park, i'd probably go -2 from true center. core center on that ski, if i remember correctly, is about 4.5cm back from true center, because k2 likes to confuse the consumer like that.
 
Yeah I can see what your saying for the East Coast, its a totally different story out west, my bad. I have just seen a lot of naive people (in Utah) that go to the shop and buy em cause they're cheap and twin-tip, and say all-mountain on them. Then they end up sucking in pow and they wonder what's going on.
 
totally understand what you're saying. i have a pair of seths that are my trip ski, which i occasionally ski here in PA, but it's not my primary all mountain ski. if i lived in utah, it would be my everyday ski, whereas i'd have a set of hellbents as my pow ski and kung fujas' for my park ski. its all relative to the conditions you encounter on a daily basis.
 
^+1

I will lean as far forward as my DIN will allow and my bindings will object before they flex and my Dins are low but not stupidily low.
 
yes, you see they are just as stiff as they used to be... hmmnn... ill go over my friends house (as he just bought the same skis, i have not seen them yet) and see whats up
 
behind centers are great in park they dont just "endure" of course center mount makes a difference but its not that immense. though i do think center mount bindings arent as well suited for trail riding as behind center mounts are for park.

i hope some of that made sense.
 
That's true i had behind center mounts and they were great for park anyway. Now i have center mounts and i don't see much difference for all mountain. And if you want to do big backcountry stuff, it is not the position of your bindings that you gotta change. It's your skis.

I'd go for something like -2 for the creator of this thread because that is the most polyvalent. Experience that and you'll probably be fixed for next year.
 
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