bandit wrote:I had my Movement Black Rose's assessed with a Campbell Balancer, to find where the mounting needed to be. This is a womens specific ski and my bindings were placed 1cm forward of the centre of the running surface after the measurements were done.
It costs £10, and is done by
http://www.jonsskituning.co.uk/content/view/33/48/
Initial results are 8)
Back off topic (sorry Dan) -
Bandit,
Thanks very much for that, I found a further article linked to that one, which said that sometimes we find we prefer a certain ski to another one because of the position of the binding, not because of the actual ski itself. And that the binding position can have a great effect on our ski-ing.
http://www.lous.ca/techarticles.html
Back on topic -
I have hired 7 different sets of skis on 7 ski holidays (never had the same skis twice) and I've never failed to ski on them yet. In other words, I've never had to take a pair back to the shop and change them. So I reckon I can ski on just about any pair of skis within my ability range.
I have noticed good and bad points about the different skis, but I find after a few days I get adjusted to them and generally manage okay. Like, I grumbled quite a lot about the wide, soft, Scott women's skis I hired in October because they felt unstable when I was schussing really fast, but they were great in the powder and I managed fine on them otherwise. And I expect if I'd had them a bit longer I'd have found a way to schuss whilst keeping the skis happy.
So maybe it's a case of being flexible and adjusting to new skis, rather than buying skis with a perfect match to the way one skis at the present moment.
In which case any skis suitable for one's ability, weight, strength and type of ski-ing (off-piste etc.) would do :?:
Edit
Sorry - miscounted - 8 ski holidays and 8 different pairs of skis and I wasn't counting the 2 holidays and 2 sets of skis when I was a child because they were the old-fashioned sort (the earliest ones had cable bindings!)
Ally