What Were Your First Brand New Skis? - Page 6

blizzard sport 14 at 185cm, still have them hanging on the wall

OMG - My first skis were the exact same set up purchased from the same place!  My mom bought them for us for our first Christmas when we moved out to the Bellevue area from Kansas in 1963.  I had double lace-up boots but don't remember the brand.  The first boots I do remember buying were my super fantastic Munari 5-buckle leather boots.

Mike
 

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Red Cortina wood skis. Bought them at a Department store called Valu-mart. they had screwed-in segmented edges and some kind of plastic base. Mounted with A & T Cable bindings (You Notched the boot toe to interface with the toe piece) and maybe a Koflach or Rieker Double lace up boot.
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Then bought a pair of Brand new metal Gresvig Mustangs. Maybe Salomon 505 step-in Bindings Broke the tip on those. either moved up to Koflach Gold Star, Double boot (Inner lace outer Buckle

Then bought a pair of brand new 210 Hart Javelin Giant Slaloms with I beleive Salomon 525's. I believe I may of benn in Humanic Dynafit 6 Buckleby then.

From |Santa in Christmas 1963 - Truline Gordie Howe Innsbruck skis with screw-in metal edges and a painted base.  Double lace up leather boots with notched toes for the toe-only release bindings (non-release cable heels).  Truline was the model of sporting equipment made for and only sold at the Eaton's department store chain in Canada.

Blue Northlands, winter 1962/63, screw in edges, cubco bindings, double lace up leather boots.

And bamboo poles!!

 

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Originally Posted by Downhilll 

Blue Northlands, winter 1962/63, screw in edges, cubco bindings, double lace up leather boots.

Silver and Red Northland Glass SkiLark, some kind of marker/tyrolia binding branded by Northland.  Bought them at a hardware store.  My brother borrowed them and broke the tip off, so I sawed them in half and learned that the "Glass" was about 1 inch wide, pretty much a straight up laminate ski with screwed on edges, but at least it didn't have cable bindings!

Kneissl MC 195cm with LOOK N17 in 1972 or 1973 I think. Prior to that was whatever looked good (rossi strato, strato 102, hart javelin, head killy, various northland, fischer and blizzard) at the right length +/- and for the right price at the Kirtland AFB thrift shop.

I had pair of 17? Rossignol STs. Great learner skis right on the cusp of the shaped ski revolution. Moved from those to some Stöckli.

Somewhere around 1987-88 I believe, I bought a pair of Atomic Arc "Micronic" in a 200 with Saloman 747 bindings. Turns out they they were too long for me(5' 8" 150ib) after only skiing 5 days
 

Circa 1975, Olin MK IV the orange 2x4's. My Orange Hanson boots matched just right, although I hated carrying a can of silicone spray along which was required to get your feet in the rubber liners.
 

I don't remember who made my first pair of skies,  The bindings were much like the ones in the picture I high jacked (thanks) all the way to the left, yes the red ones.  Mine were white and the edges were screwed on.  I can remember my mom pulling me down the street, I bet she regretted that later.

I learned to ski on a pair of Dynastar Medalists back in the 70s. They were a Christmas gift -- my Mom/Dad kept them under their bed until Christmas but I kept pulling them out to admire them.

1970 Fischer Alu's in 195 with Look Nevada, Gran Prix toes and heels with "new fangled" Tee shaped woven nylon safety straps instead of long thongs.  Paired with Lange Pro (red liner) boots.

K2 J-two 160 cm with Gerscht plate bindings. It was 1974 and I had broken my leg the previous season so my dad insisted on the" safest bindings" we could find. I don't think I've ever seen another pair of Gerscht binders.

Volkl Zebra complete with black white zebra graphics, red sidewalls, green bases. Nothing compared at that time.  

Marker Simplex Toe - Rotomat Heel - not only had to notch your boot toe to use the terrible binding, if you had a full heel release in deep snow you had to remove your glove to pick out the snow from the mechanism and then reinsert and snap back in the heel spring. Insane!

Salomon Force 9 3s.  PR6

Wait thats not true.  They were Dynastar Vertical Assaults.  And I think I already posted about them.

Kastle RX national Team SL 185 as 14y old ... And i just bought a New pair of RX12's ;-)

Cant wait!

Since then Volkl 9s 205 graded tail, Volkl Racecarver 198, Dynastar Powertrack 186, Stockli Stormrider XL 184 and Stockli LaserGS 171 (looking forward to compare the RX12 w the LaserGS)

Fischer superglass 178 that I had the local ski shop put on some used safe bindings.  Its my birthday today and I'm going to try and ski the hell out of them at Copper.  It will be fun and praise to our forefathers who ripped it down the mountain on old skis, especially my dad that taught me to ski and bought me those fischers at a garage sale when I was a kid.  He was 5' 5" and skiied 200 something's kniesel's that weighed 200 pounds. I'm a  true believer in skiing whatever, whenever.  The main thing is to have fun and enjoy yourself.   Everyone be safe and ski the best snow you can!!!!! 

When I was growing up everyone wanted Rossignol, but my family frequented a store owned by an eccentric Swiss guy who carried less-known (at least in US) brands. My first three pairs of skis were Authier, Kneissl and Dynamic. Maybe that's why I still never want the skis everyone else has. 

I had the first model of Kaestle metal GS skis. Red top sheet, with longtitudinal stripes and a crest of award emblems up toward the tip. The base was Kofix, yellow, with red bands on the edges, covering the edge screws. They had lots of metal and wood core, sidewalls, about 200cm length. Set up with Marker cable bindings. They were absolutely beautiful and I was proud to be on them at 14 years old in Germany in the early sixties.

Northland Mercury's; cable bindings ,Black tops , Metal edges ,no ptex, painted base , double lace boots. made countless runs on them at Hamilton slopes in Hamilton Mass.  I was seven or eight 1961 or 1962. 

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Originally Posted by Brad J 

Northland Mercury's; cable bindings ,Black tops , Metal edges ,no ptex, painted base , double lace boots. made countless runs on them at Hamilton slopes in Hamilton Mass.  I was seven or eight 1961 or 1962. 

Same here and I broke 3 Northlands the first year but that was around 1969. Of course I had myself Kryo- frozen during the summer  months so I have hardly aged at all since then. My post, my story! 

Atomic ARC SL back in the 80's

Atomic Beta Carv 9:18's in orange with Atomic Device bindings....thought I was Hermann Maier.