Newbie needs help with skis

twintipper77

twintipper77

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Hi everybody!

I am new here and need all your help choosing the right size ARMADA AR6 and where to mount them.

I am 5'10, 185lbs, won't be growing anymore, am an experienced skier and fairly new to park. I already learned riding switch at pretty fast speeds

and doing some easy iron crosses, 180s, but no spinning yet.

I will be doing 60% All-Mountain, 30% Park, 10% Powder.

Thank you in advance for all your suggestions!
 
181 should be good, especially if you are gonna ski a bit of powder. -4 sounds pretty good for what you described. Could go maybe a little farther back but if your skiing a lot of park and rails -4 will be good.
 
Call me crazy, but my scratches were mounted at -2cm of centre for the exact same skiing he descrobed, and they did fantastic. I would say for 60% park, -4 is a little much. I would go -2, but thats just my preference.
 
i would say 176 because the Mr. T graphics are badass and the difference of 5 cm is only:

this much.

hold that up to a ski and see if you will notice, it will be fine.
 
This. If you change your mind, you might want to go with a -2 if you're going to be spending some more time in the park. I'd stick with the -4 from true on 181's though.
 
how old are you? because my bro who is 19 thought he was done growing and bought skis and now they're a little short, so i would go with 181's just in case..besides, someone up there said they were 5'11" and he said they rip so id go for it!
 
I think I'm done growing at 29...

Thanks guys for all the good advice!

So do any of you know at -?cm from center the suggested mark is at?
 
Just received the AR6's! Got'em in 181.

They look sick and the construction feels kick-ass solid, but I know that the top sheet is gonna chip, but who cares...

I do my own mounting (I have a lot experience mounting skis, have mounted at least 20 or more skis and never had problems, plus I don't have to worry a shop fucking up the job and then waiting for new skis) so I'm gonna mount them after work with Rossi Axial2 120 without the lifters, cause I put them on my other skis that have Rossi Scratch 120's and exchanged the screws.

I am gonna mount them +1 (-4 from center), like you guys suggested. It seems the perfect position for my type of riding.

Can't wait to mount them and try them out tomorrow...
 
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