realskiers

Hey Jim...with the improvements you've made I'd love to see you on a 14 to 16m turning radius ski for inbounds carving. I'm curious to know what your impressions would be.

Has Lynn skied the P8 yet and if so...I'd love to hear her thoughts.
G

My SuperShape Magnum IS a 13.5m turning radius, the Ullr's Chariot at 101 underfoot is still a 15m turning radius - and that's what I love most about the ski.  It's not a powder ski, but it does float me in powder very well and still turns quickly on soft groomed. 


With either one, I can sometimes make pretty good carved turns -- other times my hands drop down or my right hand drops back or I get lazy and don't transition enough weight and tip enough (and then my coach yells at me).  Other times, I'm amazed at how easily and quickly the skis went from one direction to the other.  At lazy, long carved turns I am really good (narrow railroad tracks, decent body angles, and all that stuff).
One of the things I want to improve this winter is short turns, really getting committed forwardiagonally down the hill so I can get earlier edge engagement.  Probably will take a lesson to work on that. 


Lynn's Progressor 8's were an early summer special in time for her birthday, she hasn't even taken the plastic off yet, but she had clearly outgrown the Head Every Thangs and the P8's were positively recommended from lots of places (an especially helpful assessment came from Svend's wife, Terryl).  It's getting hard to find a versatile (like the old Head iC160) ski with a low 70's waist for a light skier that will also handle east coast trees and hard groomed slopes. Complicated, in her case, by the fact that even with her skills she prefers to ski a bit slower and that makes bending many hard snow skis more difficult.