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Need suggestion for mounting from experienced skiier

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hot-like-sauce
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A little background- I'm 6'1 190, stopped boarding and starting skiing mid last season with some standard ski's nothing spectacular. Took a trip out west started playing around in the parks and decided I love the adrenaline rush of flying through the air.. any way point to this story is on the off season I purchased k2 pe's and some rossignol axial 120's hopefully to help me progress and still give me some all mountain ability.

So basically where would you recommend I get my ski's mounted, I would say my projected skiing will be 60% park 40% all mountain oh and I live on the east coast so powder is rare but hey... thanks to every1, and +k to helpful responses.
Oct 20 2008 10:56AM
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Ben.
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i would say.... 3 back from center or so. if i remember correctly the PE reccomended mounting line is super far back. so mount somewhere between there and center. the more park you wanna do the closer to center
Oct 20 2008 11:19AM
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hot-like-sauce
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Thanks +karma..  Any other comments/suggestions would be sweet

Oct 20 2008 12:04PM
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MarkieR
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yeah that particular ski does not do very well being mounted at dead center. your best bet would be to measure out dead center on the ski and then measure 4 to 6 centimeters back from that. the skis won't be centered, but they'll ski switch a ton better than at the suggested point and you really won't be sacrificing any of the ski's all mountain performance.
Oct 20 2008 1:07PM
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hot-like-sauce
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thanks brah +k
Oct 20 2008 1:28PM
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phishfood
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i mounted mine +3 from recommended (they farthest back) and they kinda suck in the park. no pop from the tails. i'd mount at least +6 or so.
Oct 20 2008 5:17PM
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Literature
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-3, maybe -4 from true center should be fine.
Oct 20 2008 5:18PM
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LC.
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True centre is +12.5 on the scale.

Core centre is +7.5 on the scale, so 5 back from true centre.

Go +9.5 to +10.5 (2 to 3 back of true).
Oct 20 2008 5:21PM
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blindside
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yeah I'd say about 2 or 3 back from center. That should let you have a good time everywhere
Oct 20 2008 6:01PM
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*kiwiNZ*
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What is the difference between true and core centre?
Oct 20 2008 9:28PM
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Ben.
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core center is exactly that, the center of the core. (I think) true center is the literal center of the ski
Oct 20 2008 11:21PM
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LC.
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5cm
Oct 21 2008 10:50AM
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*kiwiNZ*
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That is the stupidest post!

I'm pretty sure everyone on here could work out 12.5 - 7.5 to equal 5!

So obviously i didn't want to know that.

Oct 21 2008 8:18PM
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k-rob
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yo chill, i'm pretty sure it was a joke.
Oct 21 2008 8:34PM
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LC.
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Core centre is the middle of the core. True centre is the middle of the ski.
Oct 21 2008 8:48PM
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phishfood
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woah
Oct 22 2008 9:13PM
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