realskiers

My Ski Awakening

Took my Watea 84's out yesterday at SugarBush Vermont just for a change of pace.? They were horrible.!!!!? ? ? I don't know what Perry did to them, but there wasn't any edge, all they wanted to do was slide.? They seemed to be stuck in a perpetual wedge (but still edgeless).? I started down a slope they use for slalom races and finally had to slide off the side of the trail, my left foot wasn't getting any bite at all.

Once I slid to a stop, thinking the safe action was to walk down the hill and absolutely confounded at what Perry?could possibly have done to my skis, I took a quick glance down.? I noticed that the binding toe was barely clamping one side of the boot toe, the other toe was out of the binding and the boot was crooked with the ski; the boot clearly wasn't communicating anything my feet were doing to the ski.

And then I had my ski awakening.? ? I had forgotten to adjust the binding back to my boot sole length after Perry's longer boots.? I'm actually amazed that the skis didn't just fall off, there was so much slop and difference between his BSL and mine.? I made the adjustment, checked the forward pressure, and my skis were back to the Watea 84's that I have come to really like.? Lynn took me on some pretty soft but challenging bumps on Middle Earth (very sketchy cover, combination of dodging rocks and sheets of clear ice) as well as holding well on pretty firm slopes and that same slalom course.?

Very glad I was able to exorcise the "Perry Influence".

Ohhh, by the way Perry.? The answer to an earlier question is that my Watea 84's are 178 length (my Magnum's are 170).