PE's, Foils, or Sprayer BC's

leone

leone

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what do you guys think is the best for myself- 5'6" 135lb, aggressive skier, park,bumps,trees,groomers (everything) on the East Coast
 
plus i dont know if the edges were crappy from rails or what but... on icy stuff at my mountain pe didnt hold up so i had to ski like a pussy, or else i would slide off a cliff or something
 
umm i wuldnt know in bumps cuz i dont ski bumps. and i detuned them and have a dead center mount but wen i did have an edge they were fine.
 
right now i have scratch fs 03/04, so i would have some idea what the sprayers bc are like except i don't know how the wood core would handle any differently, and i've demoed the foils before which were an awesome ski but considering i take my skis everywhere i tend to give em a good beating so i don't want to spend that much money, lastly i have never ridden the pe's so i don't have any first hand experience with them
 
sry i dont enjoy bump humping. but they work good for all mountain preformance if you keep the edge on em. i dont want them for all mountain i want them 4 park so they dont have and edge thus i slide out on turns
 
sprayer bc is a great ski, but not quite what youre after.

ive had bad results with foils and PEs, but they arent bad skis. i think foils would be the better choice
 
Sprayer is an awesome ski, it is not that great in the park, im 225 and its still not really flexy enough.

Get the foils, a friend of mine rides them and says they fly in everything. He knows his shit too.
 
I'd suggest foils.

HOWEVER, if you're sliding rails regularly, get PE's. When I tried out the Foils they were a fantastic ski, but I have had bad experiences with salomon edges. They will not hold up very long at all compared to public enemies.
 
go with the foils. out of the guys that work with me (10-12), only one has pe's and we crush everywhere outside of the park on a version of the foils (i have guns). for strictly park i would say that the pe's hold up a little bit better but so far i wouldn't trade.
 
and to add to my comment, i think that the foil is the best followed close by the PE. the sprayer is a weird feeling ski to myself.
 
i'd say that u described the volkl karma pretty well.......basically the superior version of the three you've mentioned.....

one problem would be the extra cost, of course.
 
if i were u i would take the sprayers completely out of the equation. both the foils and PE are bad ass for all mountain but heres the small differ. The PEs (this years) are WAY stiffer than the foils and for ur weight u might find it too stiff they also way a ton. I myself have the foils and find they are medium soft and are fairly light and versitile. so if u got the doe go foils
 
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