I hope this kind of topic is allowed here.
First off, my ski history in short:
1989: first year of skiing (3y old)
Been trough the entire ESF system up till 2 years of Compétition.
Then I had a few years without classes and did some tourski trips with my father.
Throughout all those years, I had always rented my skies (parents paid and I liked using different pairs throughout the week). I've had the pleasure to experience a lot of the differences between models, but I'm not confident enough to make a clear choice. Hell, I'm not even sure which kind of ski I want and what lenght in which section would be best.
I think you could say that it took me 20 years of skiing to really get to a point where I feel I can judge small changes in gear, and to awaken my interest in it.
The boots I use most of the time these days are Nordica Speedmachine 12.
What I'm looking for are all round skies. I do about 80/20 piste/offpiste on a normal week, I get my offpiste pleasures when I tourski without the girlfriend ;) As my friends improve over time, I do plan to do more offpiste. Besides some fooling around, I barely do any fun parks.
I'm being faced with a very difficult choice now though, simply by the massive amount of options and lack of objective comparisons (imo). I have a niece who is lucky enough to be able to test skies for a dutch magazine, and she suggested some of these:
Allmountain:
Elan Magfire 82 XTi - 184 (or 176?)
Stockli Stormrider XXL (a bit too expensive to my liking, but if it's worth the 380eur difference with the elan, I would pay up :) )
Allround:
Blizzard G-force Supersonic 10 - 174 (or 181?)
Elan speedwave 14 white fusion - 176
Stockli Laser SC (unsure what length I should go for either, 170 or 177?) - Same price issue.
Currently I'm tending more to the allmountain range and the Elans in particular, but as I said, I have no clue of the alternatives.
Finally, something I know even less about: bindings. Feel free to throw me some good suggestions or such.
Thanks in advance!
ps: in general, I've lurked here and everywhere else quite a bit, but if I missed some good source (say something about ski lenght vs experience, bindings and mounting position, etc)
First off, my ski history in short:
1989: first year of skiing (3y old)
Been trough the entire ESF system up till 2 years of Compétition.
Then I had a few years without classes and did some tourski trips with my father.
Throughout all those years, I had always rented my skies (parents paid and I liked using different pairs throughout the week). I've had the pleasure to experience a lot of the differences between models, but I'm not confident enough to make a clear choice. Hell, I'm not even sure which kind of ski I want and what lenght in which section would be best.
I think you could say that it took me 20 years of skiing to really get to a point where I feel I can judge small changes in gear, and to awaken my interest in it.
The boots I use most of the time these days are Nordica Speedmachine 12.
What I'm looking for are all round skies. I do about 80/20 piste/offpiste on a normal week, I get my offpiste pleasures when I tourski without the girlfriend ;) As my friends improve over time, I do plan to do more offpiste. Besides some fooling around, I barely do any fun parks.
I'm being faced with a very difficult choice now though, simply by the massive amount of options and lack of objective comparisons (imo). I have a niece who is lucky enough to be able to test skies for a dutch magazine, and she suggested some of these:
Allmountain:
Elan Magfire 82 XTi - 184 (or 176?)
Stockli Stormrider XXL (a bit too expensive to my liking, but if it's worth the 380eur difference with the elan, I would pay up :) )
Allround:
Blizzard G-force Supersonic 10 - 174 (or 181?)
Elan speedwave 14 white fusion - 176
Stockli Laser SC (unsure what length I should go for either, 170 or 177?) - Same price issue.
Currently I'm tending more to the allmountain range and the Elans in particular, but as I said, I have no clue of the alternatives.
Finally, something I know even less about: bindings. Feel free to throw me some good suggestions or such.
Thanks in advance!
ps: in general, I've lurked here and everywhere else quite a bit, but if I missed some good source (say something about ski lenght vs experience, bindings and mounting position, etc)
