What skis are right for me?

Hi all and happy new year,

I am looking into to buying myself some skis (having just renting them in the past) and im not to sure which type is right for me.
im probably looking for a freeride ski however i am confused about what length to get, could anyone tell me what advantages a shorter ski brings, or if i should just get the lenght to my weight ratio?
my 'performance level' (found a chart on internet) is around 7 or 8 out of 10 so i would be looking for somthing that would be suitible to build and help imporve my technique.
i found a 125cm salomon blade/ski, again what advantages would a ski this short bring?
will be thankfull for any suggestions!

You say a freeride ski, if you are looking at a blade your definition of this is probably not the same as mine. Care to elaborate? What do you like skiing? How do you ski? Do you ski what you like skiing with style? THe more info you can give about yourself, really, the better. Weight, height, glove size-everything.

all of them, none of them :D for me, I keep buying skis and I've begun to wonder why, on a good day I can ski on anything and on a bad day I can't ski on anything :D

There's no absolute answer for length though I think, it's related to flex or how stiff the ski is in part so it varies ski to ski. And then it's hard to even all agree what improving is about, you could want to be a great technical skier become an instructor and so on or you might want to improve to tackle harder terrain which isn't quite the same :D

Any ideas for a shortlist? Or what can you get cheap? :D

hi ross and ise about the blade thing i know this isnt a free ride ski it was just anohter idea, and it would be interesting to know your opinion of it, im about 60kg and looking for a ski that will be good on all sorts of terain, as for my style i ski quite fast and hard but am looking to improve on things such as carving and being able to ski mogels better and faster- as ise put it, i would like like to become very good technically :) hope this is more helpfull!

My opinion of blades is perfectly summed up by this picture:



Ise may be better placed and more knowledgeable in dealing with the question but I might be back later :lol:

ouch :-o looks painfull!! thanks alot

Tapps wrote:hi ross and ise about the blade thing i know this isnt a free ride ski it was just anohter idea, and it would be interesting to know your opinion of it, im about 60kg and looking for a ski that will be good on all sorts of terain, as for my style i ski quite fast and hard but am looking to improve on things such as carving and being able to ski mogels better and faster- as ise put it, i would like like to become very good technically :) hope this is more helpfull!

depends where you want to ski, I've never seen anyone on blades in the terrain I ski and I never expect to, they have some limited use as a teaching tool but to use all the time it's a self limiting thing. The attraction for some people on holiday is they don't need to have lessons or make too much effort, that's not attractive for everyone.

Have you seen the packages Sport Conrad do?

http://www.sport-conrad.com/index.asp?disp=kategorie&kat_id=50

mind you, I suppose the rate's not too good at the moment.

wow thanks for the website its has the same sorts of things i have been looking at from snow and rock, to you think they will have some of them in resort ot try?