You raise an interesting question about the skiers on Epic regarding the length of RX8 for your weight and size. One of the the hardest things to do is to glean meaningful information from other people's recommendation because, many times, you don't even know what type of skier they are.
Epic, for example, tends to be a LOT of instructors and patrollers. Not necessarily young, but very skilled skiers. However, not everyone that posts there is at that level, and it's difficult to know which is which. I remember that Rob DesLauriers (who runs a well respected all mountain camp with his brother) posted some advice about all-mountain skiing (his Epic name is something different) and it was amazing the number of people that jumped all over his opinions. In fact, some of the established Epic posters finally pointed out to the "masses" who the poster was and questioned whether they had the background to be so denigrating Rob's opinion.
As far as the young, hot skiers, that seems to be TGR (Teton Gravity Research). Don't know for sure, since I am neither a young nor a hot skier.
You almost have to find some intersection between your opinion of skis you have skied and opinions others have offered to determine how much credibility their opinions have. For me, that's the real value of my Realskiers subscription, the reviews are written more for my type of skier as opposed to the really good skiers over on Epic. For example, the RealSkiers review for the Head Every Thang has the statement that "does everything acceptable well for all but the most agressive female skiers. What more needs to be said" Bob Peters on epic posted a review where his wife didn't like the Every Thang at all. Bob is a ski patroller at Jackson Hole and has a pro relationship with Head, and people that ski Jackson Hole all the time are likely well above "average" skiers.
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