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Powder twin tips

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I am 6ft, 165lbs, advanced skier, who skis in Idaho. What is the best ski for me our of these brands: Salomon, Atomic, Blizzard, and Fischer (these are the brands I can demo in town). I am thinking of getting a ski in the 100-115mm range (width). I ski a lot in the trees and like jumps in the powder. Right now I think the Shogun would be the best but it seems a little to similar to my Volkl Bridge in a 169cm which I already have. My justification is that the Bridge is too short for me and the extra 10mm in the waist and 10cm in the length will provide better powder ski that is quick enough and doesn't have to charge.

Anyway the main question is: What is the best ski for me out of these brands?

thanks in advance
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In Atomic, the Blog is within your width parameters. It has rockered tip and tail with traditional camber in the mid section. Atomic calls it PoP Rocker. It has a 110 waist and comes in 177 and 185, with turn radius's being 18 ans 19 respectively. a nice responsive profile. The Bent Chetler is a step up in width but I think they are already sold out from what I heard at the atomic clinic last week. The Blog might be as well. To get a true twin profile with a symetrical sidecut from Atomic you would need to step down in width to the patent at 195. I haven't skied either yet, but the shop guys loved them both.
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I don't want anything semetric what i ment by twin tip is just the turned up tip so its possible to ski backwards, I'm not going to do a lot of backwards skiing, just want it to be an option
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Sorry to be nonspecific, but there aren't a lot of options within the parameters you listed.  Even including flat tails, there are probably only 8 skis total.  So why don't you just try them all?  Most advice on the forums should be used for drilling down your options into a manageable size, but yours is already small enough.  So just demo them all! 
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Ya that would be awesome if i could demo them all  but i dont think i can without spending a lot of money cause where i would be renting (there is only one rental shop in town) is 20 minutes away from the hill and to rent 8 skis would alomost be as expensive as buying a ski in itself. Just looking for some advice.

thanks

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Originally Posted by Downhillin99 View Post

I am 6ft, 165lbs, advanced skier, who skis in Idaho. What is the best ski for me our of these brands: Salomon, Atomic, Blizzard, and Fischer (these are the brands I can demo in town). I am thinking of getting a ski in the 100-115mm range (width). I ski a lot in the trees and like jumps in the powder. Right now I think the Shogun would be the best but it seems a little to similar to my Volkl Bridge in a 169cm which I already have. My justification is that the Bridge is too short for me and the extra 10mm in the waist and 10cm in the length will provide better powder ski that is quick enough and doesn't have to charge.

Anyway the main question is: What is the best ski for me out of these brands?

thanks in advance

where do you ski? like what resort?

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It's a pretty small hill but its called Brundage. Pretty nice snow from what I've heard (I haven't been anywhere else except Tamarack which is in the same mountain area (30min drive)).
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