realskiers

Bowed? Do you mean edge high? Concave base profile? This is interesting, as I had trouble with my '08 Progressors being edge high, and railing.  A stone grind cured it, and I had no issues after that (I sold those soon after the grind, though, but for other reasons).  However, I now have the 2010 P-9's, my wife has a pair of P-8's, and our daughter has some Fischer twin tips.  So far so good with all of those, but as we are rather into the Fischer line, I am most interested to hear more about your experiences so I can keep an eye on all of ours.  Tell me more....!

BTW, may I ask what edge bevels you were putting on your Fischers when you were having the railing problems?

And Ditto liking the Head damp feel.  I have liked almost every higher-end Head ski that I have tried -- the SS Magnums and iM78's being standouts.  The only one that I really couldn't get along with too well was the '09 Supershape Speed, but in retrospect that might have had something to do with boot problems and alignment issues.  Oh well, they're gone, and were too short anyway.  At the moment I do not own a Head ski, but could see myself getting another pair one of these days.