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Thread: The Dynastar Thread
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02-16-2019, 12:31 PM #526
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02-16-2019, 01:28 PM #527
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02-16-2019, 01:30 PM #528indentured servant
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02-16-2019, 01:55 PM #529
I don’t know anything about this offer. Just stumbled upon it on the web page of the shop. The shop is legit. They have good prices for some stuff. You have to contact them directly regarding shipping.
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02-17-2019, 12:43 PM #531self proclaimed JONG!
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02-18-2019, 06:42 PM #532Registered User
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Blister with a ProTo review
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02-18-2019, 06:59 PM #533
It's pretty much the same ski, maybe a tad more tip rocker? but that might just be because my old pair probably has 150+ days and has lost camber/flex.
I think the Blister Review is pretty solid, however I find the Proto to be a lot of work in tracked up heavy coastal type snow and bumped up crud. I think it's an awesome ski in Interior/lower water content snow. I think the huge amount of tip taper moves the sidecut back to too far in heavy coastal snow making it hard to trust the tip when blasting through crud, thus making you ski more upright, thus making you fight the stiff underfoot and tail flex and smoking your quads.
It really really likes speed and doesn't respond well to slow skiing.
That said I think the ski is awesome and have a lot of fun on them, especially in untracked lower density pow in an open bowl/pillow line, etc. If you have room to let them run a little and keep the tips pointed downhill they are really easy to ski. But at a place like Alpental where slow measured skiing is often required they can kind of beat you up.
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02-19-2019, 11:27 AM #534
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02-19-2019, 12:06 PM #535Registered User
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02-19-2019, 12:07 PM #536
I'm 200lbs and have no desire to ski a bigger than 189 Proto, at least here in the PNW. It's plenty of ski.
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02-19-2019, 12:43 PM #537Registered User
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I’m close to 200lbs nekkid and echo LVS sentiments. Plenty of ski. Tips were impossible to sink in 35” of blower. Opened them up in chop and on groomers and they were plenty beefy.
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02-19-2019, 12:52 PM #538
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02-19-2019, 01:13 PM #541Registered User
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02-19-2019, 01:18 PM #542
I guess I'm doing it wrong, because I love my XXL's in tight trees when the snow isn't deep. Straight sidecut + decently stiff means they smear around super easy. I liked them better in tight spots than my fully rockered Cochises. And that's why they're so great - fun in tight trees, but equally awesome going fast in open spots.
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02-19-2019, 01:28 PM #543Registered User
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To each his own.
I've taken the Pro Riders through some tight areas and needless to say, it was a lot of work and something I'd prefer not to do on a consistent basis.
It's definitely possible to ski them in those places but if I had to choose between them or a ski like the Peacemaker/anything with some slight tail rocker, I'd take that 10x/10x.
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02-19-2019, 01:35 PM #544
XXL's one of my go to for many years. Got on the OG 194's then tried 187s when they came out. Seemed too short and sold the 187 and got a backup 194.
Then the 194 felt a bit much and went back to 187 and settled there. Seems like the 192 Pro Rider may be a sweet spot for me on length.
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02-19-2019, 01:47 PM #545
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02-19-2019, 01:56 PM #546Registered User
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02-19-2019, 11:13 PM #547Registered User
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The Dynastar Thread
Skied the x106 at BBI Alpental this last weekend. Really put them through the gamut. Skied mine 1.5 days. Knee deep cascade pow, wind packed pow, groomers, chopped pow, ice.
Man did they deliver and surprise me in a very good way.
I mounted them on the line and heavily detuned the tails from where the taper starts all the way back with a file and smoothed them with a gummy. I then took a file to the tips. Started at the taper locations with the file then went 2” into the side cut with the gummy.
Never had to adjust the tune/de tune from there. Perfect.
Zero hook from the ski and it let me make any turn shape I wanted. They never forced me into that 19m radius. I was able to lay down 30+ meter carves easily or shorten them up. Groomer performance is amazing and super fun, hip dragging fun.
Pow: man these things performed way better than expected. Couldn’t sink the tips. Tails release with ease. Not super surfy but better than expected for 106. Don’t do anything ya don’t tell them to.
Chopped pow: I’m a huge fan of bullet shaped tips, hence my love affair with the Lhasa. These look like a slimmer Lhasa and ski very much the same. They just slice through the chop clearing a path for the rest of the ski. In the heavier snow, heavier than I’m accustomed to, the tip seemed a little soft. I could feel some slight deflection and speed. Nothing crazy but noticeable. That softer tip flex helps the pow performance though.
Bumps and air: man are they easy and fun in the bumps. Nice flex pattern and light in the air. Fun the zipper line then air a few then zipper line again. They are light in the air and very balanced. Stomp landings well. Nothing huge, only an 8’er sent.
This ski could easily be a quiver of one type ski. Matter of fact, mine are getting a sth cast setup and it’s looking the only ski I’m taking to Europe. It’s just a really easy ski to ski yet so far can haul ass. Granted I haven’t been able to really open them up in bigger terrain, just on groomers albeit pretty beat up groomers that they handled the firm pushed up piles with aplomb.
This ski has a shit load of potential and is the ski I wanted Splat to make the 187 FAT into.
If Dynastar took this ski and put a mid 20’s radius on it with some metal to stiffen it up, sumbeech they would have one badass ski. Maybe even make it in a 192, drool.
I mounted mine on the line with sth16’s and really like the ski there.
If you have overlooked this ski, you really need to get on it.
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02-19-2019, 11:21 PM #548
extra chocolate for using the word "aplomb"
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02-20-2019, 12:11 AM #549one-track mind
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02-20-2019, 07:29 AM #550
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