Review: Seth Viscious

MrPantyDropper

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Ski: Seth Viscious

Length: 179

Height: 5'7"

Weight: 135lbs

Ability: Advance-Expert. I'll get down anything in front of me, but maybe not in the smoothest way.

Area: Alta

Terrain/Snow: Mostly advanced terrain. Blady shoulder, East castle, Wildcat, and the High T. Mostly crud, groomed, hard bumps, and some wind buff. Hiked for some fresh in East Castle.

Crud: These things plow right through nasty shit at high speeds. If you try using finesse your going to get bounced around, so keep the speeds high and be on edge. Deffinately a fun ski in the crud.

Pow: These things never want to dive, but I'm sure my weight also had something to do with that. Slow, or high speeds these things float like a butterfly.

Cliffs: Soo solid on the landings. Only hucked off some smaller 10-25ft cliffs and the wide platform deffinately contributed to stomping the shit out of everything.

Bumps: Possibly the skis weakest point. Especially if the bumps are hard and not cut well. They take a big of energy to muscle around quickly. Be ready for sore legs at the end of the day if you doing a lot of bumps. You'll deffinately notice the increased width of this ski.

Groomed: Much, much better than I would ever expect. These things want to make long gs turns at mach speeds. Even short radius turns were manageable, and did not notice the larger waist on groomed runs. No chatter whatsoever.

Trees: The Viscious is sick in the trees. You can maneuver it quickly through tight spaces, and cruise through the trees at speeds with confidence. Tight trees+ hardsnow= tired legs. On hard snow this ski is a little bit of work, but still doable.

Stability at Speed: The Viscious begs to go faster. So stable at speed even though its a very soft ski.

I didnt take this ski in the park, as it was a demo, but it felt solid in the air and while riding switch.

Overall: This is a great one ski quiver, for resorts that get around 300 inches or more a year. It begs for speed, and whill perform at speed in any conditions. This ski pretty much does it all in every conditions and will suit most skiing styles.

Theres probably a lot I forgot, so if you have any questions just ask.

 
I didn't read the review, but I think it's important to first of all, spell the name of the f'ing ski correctly:

V-I-C-I-O-U-S
 
I know. It just bothers me cuz I see that so often.

Good review though.

I assume this was this year's SV you demoed? Next year's is the same, but just curious.
 
I have them, and they are amazing. everything you said was spot on. I couldnt be happier with the ski. The only thing Ihave to add is that I have taken them in the park. I've done a few decent jumps on them, but no rails, as i have park skis for that and i choose not to ruin these things. They are sick for stomping landings but awkard to spin with at first. After a few trys you get used to the added size but you can deff feel them slowing your rotation. Overall, one sick ski.
 
okay guys i need some help, I can get a good deal on some skis right now and im thinking either karmas or vicious. I have some tm's for park and those are too noodly so i want a nice big mountain ski. Im like 5'9" 130 and i dont want the karmas to be too stiff for me. thanks
 
the only complaint i have wid the ski if this is a proper complaint is the sizes they come in. i have the 179 but i put on more weight and are too short now. cept the next size is 189 which would be too big as im only 5 foot8 and 75kg . if they had a 185 as well that would provide a could in between length. either than or i could put more weight on.
 
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