realskiers

Jim, you make good points about the vision 73.? She likes them fine.? I was thinking about her benefiting from a narrower ski and actually started looking for the 800.? I will send an email to Harold and see if he would recommend me picking up a pair if I can find some at a good price.

Perry

Perry:
Great to hear, I look forward to meeting you and Gloria (and Todd).? Good thoughts on the narrower ski part, because I have heard numerous comments on the advantages of narrower waisted skis for tipping and carving drills.? I was actually a bit surprised that Harald and Diana put Lynn on the Every Thangs as well as the fact that Peter classified the Vision 73 as good for skills development.? May be possible that greater sidecut compensates for some of the width or something, because both Harald and Peter are a lot more knowledgeable than I.

I will confirm another thing that Todd listed, and that is the focus on the skiing and not on the selling of new boots. There was another guy in the alignment room at the same time as I, and they were going to great lengths to make his boots work even though all acknowledged they were worn out; he was almost asking them to recommend a new boot.? I eventually couldn't stand it anymore, and mentioned how much I liked my Head boots (and especially the buckles), at which time the Harb instructors chimed in with agreement and that the boot wasn't rotary, etc and mentioned some other brands.? Same thing happened with me, in fact.? I had a decent footbed, but the person that built it didn't detect my forefoot varus.? Maria spent a lot more time gluing foam on and grinding it off to make that footbed work rather than just build me a new one. Much better balance after.
Jim