The Ski: 185cm 135-98-125 demo bindings slid +1
Me: 5'11" 235
Likes: EC technical trees and chutes, bumps, railing groomers, and taking long walks on the beach under the moonlight
I shop flexed these a couple of weeks back and thought I'd love them for days when it wasn't worth bringing out the Pow Plus, and for bringing along on trips out west figuring that I'd be covered with a PE if it didn't snow and Enforcer if it did.
I've never been so disappointed in a pair of skis before, they just weren't anywhere near the versatile tool I expected them to be. I understand the limitations of 99 mm waisted skis in tight EC terrain but these were terrible, the tail would not release from a turn and all the ski wanted to do was to keep going up the hill.
Groomer performance was fair to very good, but again all the ski wanted to do was make one turn shape, you couldn't vary from long to medium to short, and for having a tail that dug in and hung on as much as it did, there really wasn't any trampoline effect from loading and unloading while entering and exiting the turn. I will give it high marks for stability at speed, I couldn't find a speed limit, but at speed it was lifeless under my feet so there was very little in the way of "feel" for the snow underfoot, I couldn't tell if I was on cord, ice, glop, or Jello pudding.
Attempting to ski bumps with this thing was putting your life in your own hands, yeah fat skis don't ski bumps well, but I've skied both 180 and 165 Explosives and Sugar Daddies in bumps before and while the edge goes to the Daddies and shortie Exploders due to their quickness, I'd still take the 180 Explosives and even my bender Pow Plus's as bump skis before I'd take the Enforcers.
Trees were a JOKE, I refused to give them a full on EC woods trial by fire, but I jumped into Big Dipper woods which is an extremely open glade at K-mart, due to its easy viewing from the Canyon quad, it gets skied off very quickly and conditions were scraped off with some leftover glop the farther you went in. I HATED the ski here, due to the ridiculous 21 m sidecut the ski got hung up everywhere and on everything. My Powspataplus is so much fun in EC trees because I can pivot and slarve turns at will, with the enforcers I was literally leaning over the handlebars to pop the tail out of the turn so the ski would come around.
I started skiing them at 8:45, by 10 am I was heading back to my car to grab my 165 Explosives thats how terrible the Enforcer was. I could see how this MIGHT be a decent ski if you wanted to have them as a groomer/park/light pow ski for the days that you weren't on EHP's or Lotus's but thats about the only thing I'd recommend them for.
Two thumbs way down on this one
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