realskiers

All-Mountain: A common descriptive term for boots or skis that are designed to perform equally poorly under a variety of conditions and over many different types of terrain.

Yep, I've read that one before (applied to mountain bikes as well as skis).  It's amusingly clever...but untrue.

I'm not quite sure where the confusion stems from.

If you want to ski the terrain in your video working on race-oriented carving and you want to do it well, You'll want a powerful race room (or race ready) ski, race plates, heavy metal binding with boots to match.

If you want to the sort of terrain in the videos of Bushwacka and his crew...you'll want something else.

I think the point of Bush's video in this thread isn't to say that Rockered skis are the equivalent of race skis on low angled groomer carving, but merely to say they can be adequately pressed into service on hard  snow when the need arises and they'll hold just fine on edge throughout a turn, provided they are under a skilled skier.   Since Bush and his crew are generally only skiiing the firm or the groomed on their way to and from much more exciting terrain, the wider, more rockered ski is an appropriate All mountain choice.

The girl in Bush's video is skiing some very nasty snow, in a fairly confined space and she's doing it with her big skis on edge.  In Balance and with more than adequate speed.   In other words, they give her more than enough of what she needs to do well in those conditions, and plenty of what she wants to ski the conditions she is really seeking.  That's a pretty good endorsement for one ski.

I'm coming to appreciate the limits of video-that girl can ski--and I bet, over a long day in the trees and bumps of Stowe (or anywhere else) she'd put a beatdown on just about every poster here.  And her ski choice would help her do it.