Message #20936

[Svend]

Mom's P8's seem like they would be a pretty long ski for a 14 year old.  Impressive that she likes them that well.

Not really too long -- she is only about 1" shorter than her Mom, and only 5 to 10 lbs lighter.  The skis are 160's, which is actually a tad too short for my wife, but served her well for a super-fun short turn snappy little carver; sort of a light ersatz slalom ski.  Our daughter, as you know, has been skiing on 159 cm Fischer twins for the past 2 seasons, with no troubles handling them.  She tried the Progressors last season, but she was much shorter and lighter then, at about 110 lbs, so the length and stiffness of the P-8's kind of knocked her about quite a bit.  This year she is having no such trouble, and is blasting through cut up snow and crud without a hiccup.