You can proform the pistols for about $300, but 4frnt doesnt have a pro form set up yet, so if you are lucky you might find them for wholesale which is about $390.  I got mine for $385.  And performance wise, the pisols are soft enough in the shovel where they can ride on top of most snow, whereas the 4frnts just blast right through crud.  They are both really good skis.  See if you can possibly demo them.
I have a theory that all retards have one long tendon that goes from wrist to wrist, so therefore that is why they always are screwin around with one wrist up, and the other one down.