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02-14-2020, 05:10 AM #26Registered User
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I’ve actually gradually sized up as I’ve gotten older...I started 10 yrs ago with a fx94 in 168 and have worked my way to a WC108 in 190. Skis have changed a TON in 10 yrs with all the rocker tech that’s being used now. I’ve never been disappointed I went bigger.
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02-14-2020, 06:50 AM #27
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02-14-2020, 09:57 AM #28Registered User
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yeah but unless you got way fatter/gained 60 lbs in yer autumn years are you able to bend a 195 ?
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02-14-2020, 09:59 AM #29
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02-14-2020, 09:59 AM #30
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02-14-2020, 10:43 AM #31
Yeah, my quiver is all effed up right now. The Rustler 9 (which I bought in Utah after 2 hours of contemplation) is freaking fun. It bridges the gap between my 180 cm Brahma and Bonafide.
I wish it were 2cm shorter. What I was trying to accomplish with the purchase didn’t happen, but instead it is just more fun to ski on.
I’m not thrilled with the center-feeling mount. Also, the 17m turn radius can feel “hooky.”
But, it’s much lighter than my 180 cm ‘14 Bonafides.
But the heel-to-tail is longer than the Bonafides, so in STEEP chop I can’t say it’s easier (what I was going for; yeah long story short in the shop I couldn’t bring myself to buy the new Bonafide in a different length or even the same length; just couldn’t do that mentally when I already had the 180 Bonafide).
If there was a 177 Cochise in a 94-98mm waist, that would be amazing. I really have no business owning a 108mm ski.
The 185 Cochise was undeniably too much ski for me, but I can understand from skiing it why the Cochise was legendary.
A few years ago 100-110mm skis were all the rage... now they seem like a niche product. Oh well.
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02-14-2020, 11:27 AM #32
Same. Used to ski stiff skis, wider skis. But a few years ago I downsized to a Rossi S3, similar length to what I had been skiing but soft and fully rockered and narrower. Best decision I ever made. I live for skiing in the trees, and they turn on a dime and are light enough that my legs stay fresh longer (I don't get as many ski days in as I used to). Sure, they have a speed limit and flop around on groomers, but that's ok for me.
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02-14-2020, 02:44 PM #33
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02-14-2020, 08:35 PM #34Registered User
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02-14-2020, 10:27 PM #35
A bunch of Sacramento Kaiser docs used to ski once a twice a season with the 65 year old Permanente executive director (who has a place at Squaw). He loved to ski fast and show up the younger docs, until he broke his arm skiing with us.
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02-15-2020, 12:01 AM #36Rod9301
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I'm still in my 184 katanas, metal inbounds and carbon in the Backcountry.
I Don't understand why people think it's harder to bend a ski as you get older.
Any turn will produce at least 1 g, which should be more than sufficient to bend a burly ski.
The only disadvantage to a longer ski, for me, is that it's harder to do kick turns when skinning
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02-15-2020, 06:52 AM #37
This has been an increasingly common conversation topic in our house. On the tour side I'm a freakish gram counter now as I can watch my vert go down almost linearly with incremental increase in gear weight. But as far as inbounds skis go, some of the new boards are really changing the equation for the more mature crowd. In the past I've only skied the longest lengths of the burlier skis. Recently got on the Katana 108 and M102, both in 184 and 191. For me personally the beautiful part was that even in 191 those skis don't REQUIRE peak effort to just ski along, but when that moment arrives that you want to toggle from stun to kill, like you used to do all the time 10-20 years ago, these skis can step up and get it done. And now I'm really starting to eyeball some of these slightly lighter boards like the Corvus, that according to the fanboy's here, don't sound like much of a compromise for performance but are a couple hundred grams lighter. Interesting times and shit tons of cool new gear
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02-15-2020, 10:39 AM #38
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02-15-2020, 10:46 AM #39
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02-15-2020, 11:09 AM #40Registered User
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02-15-2020, 12:02 PM #41Registered User
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I'm 66, 5' 9" & 150lbs. Strong skier but need to cover everything from volcanoes and snow droughts to deep touring days. Skis range from 170 (2pr), 176, 177, 178, 180. For reference, I started (serious) skiing on the legendary VR 17's & didn't ski anything shorter than 203 for years. When Research Dynamics first produced skis, I got on a pair of 190's. That was a transformational ski for me and I found myself in the 185 - 195 length profiles. Stump movies showed up, skis went back to 205 for a few years. Wider skis emerged & lengths shortened. 186 Stockli Stormrider and R-EX's in 186 were staple ski's for several years. I would answer the age / length question by saying no, didn't go shorter due to age. Modern ski's just don't need the length to deliver and between 170 - 180 is my sweet spot.
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02-15-2020, 02:15 PM #42
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02-15-2020, 02:26 PM #43Registered User
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02-15-2020, 04:15 PM #44
Sized down for the fatties 8 years ago. Gained some weight as I aged but started sippin' from the fountain of youth via diet change and Wim Hoffing, so, added a bunch of weight and 5cms of length to the Darksides this year. 3 cm tail xtension via cutting boards, 2 cm tip xtension via multiple layers of gorilla hot gun glue. Game changer. I'm 46 but kinda feelin' better than in my 20's, prolly due to totally dialing in all the ski stance, boot flex, ski tip to tail balance via custom front rocker modification, etc.... It's fucking awesome and I'm just so stoked on skiing these days...any conditions as long as there aren't any tracks. Cutting boards got used today on the ski bench. Shaving Intuition foam for a helmet mod; custom heat molded earplugs attached through the ear pads for instant in/out use for heliskiing, which work awesome so far....and, added a foam stomp pad to the heel piece 'cause the plastic tabs for 'flat' tour mode broke off. Bindings are back in bizzness for the evening ski tours.
Oh yeah, and those Rossi S3 186's...what an awesome blend of prefered ski characteristics for a middle aged trying to be young guy: damn good float for the width, great tip to tail suspension, easy turning, pretty damn high speed limit for untracked snow, easy high speed zipperline soft bumps performance, damp...just plain super fun.
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02-15-2020, 07:06 PM #45
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02-15-2020, 07:37 PM #46
I admit to downsizing when I moved to New England
But that’s only cuz your bumps suck
And your mountains suck
On a real mountain
Short skis suck, long skis truck. . .
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02-15-2020, 07:54 PM #47
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02-15-2020, 08:53 PM #48
100% agree with the quivers for geezers comment. I’m only 40 but things are starting to hurt if I’m doing what I used to and given the option to ski the big bad mammerjammer for three hours at full tilt, or something a little less so for the whole day, it’s becoming a reasonable compromise. I’m 6’3, 205 so I got pretty hosed by the everything-rocker-always-all-the-time movement. Everyone thought they were sizing up, and then manufacturers axed anything over a 185 that wasn’t basically a powder tool. And while there are some exceptional options on the wider end of the spectrum, there’s fuck all for a big guy when things firm up nowadays. But while I’m still skiing the longest iteration of whatever ski I’m on, I’m inching my way down bit by bit. I would likely be content with a shorter ski for hardpack, but the shorter turn radii on everything nowadays kills it for me. I can have plenty of fun on my invictus 95ti in a 185 in the bumps and dicking around on the side of the run all day, but when I want to turn it up to eleven the 21m radius is more than I care for. But while I love my 194mx98, I’m not scooping up pfluffenmeisters pair because by the time I wear mine out I may well not be able to do that ski as much justice. So I’m incrementally reducing my length, flex, and turn radius across my quiver as skis get replaced so I don’t have to ski in anger every turn. And I will absolutely miss the ability to do so as I age, but I can focus on other things to keep me entertained if I can’t just rage all the time.
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02-16-2020, 04:06 AM #49
I find the whole rocker trend and shape revolution has made skis so easy to ski I can't fathom sizing down. I've been on something ~185cm for the last 25 years. Basically, the second biggest option-- as I've never considered myself big enough to justify purchasing the biggest ski a manufacturer makes. I'm 5'8" and 160ish.
But both my 186 Renegade and my 184 M102 are the easiest skis I've ever been on. I've just been sitting on the sidelines of mainstream buyers wondering what all the fuss is about as I could easily enjoy more float & a longer radius in both skis. "Too big." Is not something I have uttered since the word rocker became part of our lexicon.
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02-16-2020, 06:47 AM #50
I agree. Full rocker skis make it so easy to turn and "cheat" on turns with a little smear (which is easier on the old knees) that I can see no reason to size down. Plus, I am no longer charging the fall line much but rather resorting to bigger smoothie turns for which short skis would not be as nice a ride. Even though I'm on 188 or 192 boards the full rocker makes them adequate bump skis, but my zipper line days are definitely over. I find shorter skis too nervous and that in most situations they prevent relaxing my attention and body. Speed in funky snow is just to sketchy on short boards for me to feel like sizing down, although once I get to the point of only skiing groomers I'm sure that'll happen.
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