Deals on skis and boots

verbier_ski_bum wrote:Jam is the old design, these days it's all about rocker:)

Yes, fashion and all. Right now I do have a pair of skis with rocker, but my best performing skis don't have it. :D

Trencher wrote:

verbier_ski_bum wrote:Blizard Bushwacker is getting excellent reviews, maybe it's time to update your Neo's? :) 173 should be a good length for you. With a rocker you won't even notice 7cm extra over your Neo's. I haven't seen it selling here. Blizzard's are relatively rare in my experience.

That does look like a good ski. I hate it though when they only give the radius for one length in the specs. The 180 is 21M so would guess the 173 at about 18+M. That would be my only concern, on the groom it would harder to carve unless you have plenty of room.

I don't find it to be the case. My non-rockered 94mm-waisted ski that I ski 90% of the time has almost 20 m (19.6)TR and they carve great. Took me a couple of days to get used to slower edge change as I was coming off 76mm-waisted ski, but after that I was fine. Last year off-piste was abyssmal for most of the season and I skied groomers more than I thought I would but had no issues with either width or TR. Bushwaker is a rockered ski, so turn initiation should be pretty easy regardless of TR.

bandit wrote:

verbier_ski_bum wrote:Jam is the old design, these days it's all about rocker:)

Yes, fashion and all. Right now I do have a pair of skis with rocker, but my best performing skis don't have it. :D

It's about efficiency not performance. Why do things harder way if you can do them the easy way?:) Movement make some nice light skis that should be good for touring.But I am rocker convert and there are many skis on the market these days that have rocker and don't have too much weight so can make good touring skis.

Verbs seems to offer good first hand experience here. Interesting comments on both the Blizzards and the Movements. Hmmm.


As for the boots, I was pointing out that they have some good deals on at the moment. I never once said anything about buying because they were cheap but if people are looking to buy, now seems to be the time.

As I said before I bought cheap first time and ended up with boots that didnt fit, and my current ones are 2 sizes smaller than the ones I first bought :shock:

verbier_ski_bum wrote:

My non-rockered 94mm-waisted ski that I ski 90% of the time has almost 20 m (19.6)TR and they carve great.

A tighter turning ski when compared to my favourite non rockered narrower Movements. Skied at just over head height, they also carve nicely, and handle powder well too, just ask Chamfreerider :D

I guess that where I spend most of my time, local style rubs off because folks just go skiing, there is a "run what you brung" mindset. Having had skier alignment and fore/aft balancing done, I'm not feeling any great benefit from Rocker additions I've tried. I can ski what I want with what I use.

bandit wrote:

verbier_ski_bum wrote:

My non-rockered 94mm-waisted ski that I ski 90% of the time has almost 20 m (19.6)TR and they carve great.

A tighter turning ski when compared to my favourite non rockered narrower Movements. Skied at just over head height, they also carve nicely, and handle powder well too, just ask Chamfreerider :D

I guess that where I spend most of my time, local style rubs off because folks just go skiing, there is a "run what you brung" mindset. Having had skier alignment and fore/aft balancing done, I'm not feeling any great benefit from Rocker additions I've tried. I can ski what I want with what I use.

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Anyway, back on topic and I see Sport Conrad have some excellent deals on at the moment.....

Tony_H wrote:
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Anyway, back on topic and I see Sport Conrad have some excellent deals on at the moment.....