realskiers

I was joking about skiing on carving skis. A few seasons ago when I was having trouble off piste and in some powder Harald Harb told me to ski powder on my Head Super Shapes 66 under foot. I did it for about the first 5-6 powder days. I will tell you that it is great practice. Skis that skinny in heavy Tahoe snow will not support poor technique. I hade a very clear gameplan on the SS's (use the deep flexion/tipping SRT) and without it the days would ahve been horrible. It did make going back to fatter skis seem easy.

So after doing this for 5-6 days and learning to ski powder and chop on them, do I grab my SS's ona pwedr day? Of course not, but it was a good learning experience. But it was only a good learning experience because I had a specific gameplan and the appropriate technique toools to make riding the SS's successful.

Actually just as skiing a 66mm ski in powder can be good training, so can trying to bend the IM 88's on hard snow, or trying to bend a true RD GS ski on hard snow. It requires prefect technique to tighten the turn arc.

 I also agree with the lots of smiles concept!! At the end of the day skiing is supposed to be fun!!