Regarding the Rossignol S7 skis I have to say that these are the best skis built ever for big mountain and powder skiing. Especially ski shows its quality when you face diverse conditions on the same run. I skied with these skis more than 150 days in last 3 years. Mostly in powder and new snow conditions all kind of snow types. I am 183cm, 85kg plus equipment (ABS and skiing equipment) and I was ski instructor in national demo team of SLO. I am using S7 in length 188cm and 195cm. 195cm only for fresh, very deep snow with a lot of volume (not compact) and fast skiing with long turns. So, the statement that the skis have to much parabolic shape (to short radius) is ridicules. You have to just use one size of length bigger. Plus I have to say that more parabolic (carving shape - narrow below the ski shoes) has no special bad effect in powder. Moreover, the ski is more responsive and radical on short turns. On to the last mentioned characteristic has big influence also a pin tail of the skis. This parameter makes skis responsive and easy turning on high speed and fast reactions for an example in trees skiing. It is impressive how stable this skis are. Thankful to the fact that ski is of pure composite sandwich construction full of carbon wood and aluminum in proper composite relations, the ski under the charge make perfect curve and they don't jump over big turns. The skis without pin tail don't carve so perfect and need always more and more corrections during the long turn. So, once you decide how much to dose the charge on the S7 ski you chose the carve length and you just glide and don't think anymore. If you because of what ever reason want to change the length of your curve you re dose the charge and voila you glide on the powder without corrections after every 2 meters. Just gliding. Simple as that. Sandwich construction has another advantage; Skis are torsion stable what causes that the skis are stable on high speed in powder runs and on hard terrains as well. Imagine this unbeatable combination... :)
Fast gliding or fast come out of the deep powder has roots in wide upper body of the ski and perfect distribution of the shape of complete ski. Hope will never change it in Rossignol before doing testing and getting feedback from the market with other models.
Regarding the skiing on the hard pistes (moments when you have to come from off piste run to the lift again or when you have to approach to the helicopter on the bottom of the big mountain close to the fjord where the snow is not snow but ice ) these skis are amazing. You can and you must trust them and ski like you do it on the short slalom racing skis. The reverse camber concept under the bindings gives to this skis incomparable effect to any of skis of the same type on the market. I tested all skis of Voelkel, Armada, Fischer, Atomic, Dynastar, even Elan etc. but found out that S7 is unique. Unique on the planet guys...
What is very help full in powder skiing and makes skis easy to turn and self correcting in sense of balance is "banana shape" or in tech words; scoop and rocker line (scoop is measured from the tip and first 50cm of the ski and a rocker on the tail usually 50cm of the tail of the ski). So you have big scoop which exiting in reverse camber than comes fluidly and logic to the intensive rocker line. This makes skis as I said dynamically stable. Like the wings on the airplane... Check the Wikipedia to understand it better for those which are not mechanic ingeneers.
Finally the most important is what people say when they try skis. From the first to the last I got always just very, very positive feed backs of different level and style of skiers. I claim that every pussy can do the powder skiing with these skis and every expert can just improve his skiing and experience. My opinion is that these skis are bringing to the skiing industry almost the same revolution as it was when Elan introduced first carving skis. This is a fact and it is only the matter of time when everybody will try to copy them. But if they will miss only one of above underlined parameters and characteristics the skis will never be comparable with the Rossignol S7 skis. Never!
And now about the design. Tastes are different said the monkey which leaked the shit but I have to tell that for me the 2009 pictures of the skis were fare better as these on 2010. Let's see what will bring 2011 model... :)
Buy one pair and let me know what do you think. The answer is on the palm... It will drive you crazy guys... I know... :)))))
Best regards,
Zokinjo
p.s.: one tip more.. Mount the bindings for one cm more in to the back... ;) and/or buy and install Marker Schizzo bindings as I did... - prove that I am not an employee of Rossignol and kick that Rossi will develop similar bindings MTFs... :)
and of course, sorry for my English... :(
Edited by zokinjo - 1/3/11 at 1:09pm
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I learned English while fu...ing English native speaking girls in ski school, mostly from USA... Ask mom if she traveled to my neighborhood ever...
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