realskiers

I'm sure that all of you like I have found that when skiing in the east on many resorts with little to no side country skiing..a carving ski is ideal...no doubt.

I think an important factor that makes a carving ski is it's turn radius. I went from a Fisher 13m tr to a Kastle 16m tr. AND yes when the snow is hard and or perfect...that 13m tr is just definetly easier to spit out rapid fire turns.

BUT...that snow DON'T last. Where I live, it's gone in the 1st hour and really chopped to smithereens in 21/2 hours. What I've found is that something with a little more stability underfoot made crushing those piles of crud and creepy marbles a better "tool". Keeps my quivver under 2 indeed. But in reality...I like the crud and the busted up snow..the pushed pow along the edges...but that's just me. I'd rather ski that then rip groomers all day long, hence my choice in skis.

What does amaze me is the "carving hard snow" skis on the market today....they've got some really decent turning radius.

What does that mean...well what I see is that if you want to rip off pure carves, short, quick edge to edge....that 11-13m tr ski is the right tool. When you get into to 16 plus, you ain't making those pure short turn carves like the shorter TR skis do...to turn that tight, we're making brush carves and heck....that's just fine...cause that's the tool I got on my foot.

Working within the Turning Radius of the ski...making pure carves is still a dream. We do however sacrifice some performance benefit and gain others as we move between skis.

For each of us, it's  what that ski brings to your pleasure...it's what floats your bubble....find it and life is grand!
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