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Sammy salomon whats the deal?

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paulbunyan
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the new update on slopestyle the video put on by newschoolers you see sammy walking up the hill with last years thruster... whats the deal usually there usin next years skis. then simon was using his last years dumonts in big air... anyone kno the deal the only one ive seen using next years is charles. just kinda confused as if they have thrusters and spks next year?and foils
Jan 27 2008 11:37PM
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CMF
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in elimination he was riding the new salomon suspects.
Jan 27 2008 11:41PM
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Nicholas.
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maybe they didnt feel like changing to new skis yet?
Jan 27 2008 11:42PM
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jhackbeez
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there prolly not used to the different flex's of the new skis.  its good for somethings, but for others its not.  cuz simon used both this and next years during x games.
Jan 27 2008 11:43PM
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paulbunyan
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yea saw that next years in pipe this years on big air. but does that mean theres no more spk or thruster or foil?
Jan 27 2008 11:46PM
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BravoWhiskey5280
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yea sammy was wereing the suspects which are sick...was garnier werein the dumonts though...cause he was weren the suspects in big air
Jan 28 2008 12:03AM
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[Toby]
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at least for big air he was only using this years, then at the podium someone handed him next years.

im wondering why, i doubt the ski is any different considering salomon doesnt redo skis all that often and dumonts are a pretty new ski.
Jan 28 2008 12:05AM
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skibum193
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its hard to adjust to new skis in a day, so they rode what they were used to, then switched to new skis for marketing purposes
Jan 28 2008 12:47AM
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paulbunyan
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im almost for sure they redid there hole line and made all the flexes alot diffrent nto for sure thou. i still want to kno if there gonna have spk thrusters and foils next year
Jan 28 2008 11:55AM
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titsLOL
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Umm I don't know if you are blind or something, but next years look completely different and they probably weren't comfortable on them yet. and salomon does redo their skis every few years and this year seems to be the year.
Jan 28 2008 2:08PM
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OLDFRED
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There is no more spk, thruster, foil skis...the only ones that seem to have been brought back from last years is the Rocker, Gun and Dumont.

New Salomon skis...Czar,Lord,Suspect,Threat,Mai Elai...

The change in flex can also be because they've gone to all wood this year. The first year 07 Dumonts were a combo/partial wood core like this year's thruster 08...this years 08 dumont is full wood core..and I assume that the flex is even different for this year's 08 dumont and next years 09 dumont.

Another possibility is that Simon uses a 181cm ski in the pipe and a 176 in slopestyle. The length may not yet be available to him in the 09 dumont...same as for Sammy.

Jan 30 2008 12:42PM
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paulbunyan
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awwww that makes sense thanks
Jan 30 2008 7:20PM
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comeatmebro
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shit those are some gay names
Jan 30 2008 7:43PM
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doublexl
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probably. a few years ago THALL didnt use the new pipe cleaners cause he got em like the day of and people were fliping out.
Jan 30 2008 7:49PM
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