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Question about lizzies

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mokeefe257
Posts: 405 - Karma: 10
hey if i went from the 07-08 dumont which weighs 1600 per ski..would i feel a difference if i bought lizzies and they were 2220 per ski?
Dec 30 2008 6:08PM
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mokeefe257
Posts: 405 - Karma: 10
and oh ya im 6'1 175 and i do mostly rails
Dec 30 2008 6:20PM
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Slinger1x1
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well thats almost 150% heavier, so im sure you would feel it. but you would probably also get used to it
Dec 30 2008 6:27PM
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Krook3d
Posts: 240 - Karma: 21

I think you should be fine. I went from skiing 2 years on 159 k2 silencers to this year getting 174 k2 extremes and 179 hellbents,and im around 5'9 and it took some getting use to but i think youlll be fine for sure.

Dec 30 2008 8:07PM
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mokeefe257
Posts: 405 - Karma: 10
thanks a lot for your help guys
Dec 30 2008 8:42PM
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regge
Posts: 720 - Karma: 74
ya i have the hell bents and they grind fine on rails and boxes so you should be fine if you get the lizzies it might take a day or two to get use to them but go for it
Dec 30 2008 8:57PM
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MEGAZORD
Posts: 4531 - Karma: -7
I think youre taking it a little too far.  Man up and ride them. 
Dec 30 2008 9:39PM
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fragglemuffin
Posts: 3312 - Karma: 444
2 things:
first off, 6'1" is pretty tall for lizzies since they are only 172s.....im 5'7" and i wish they were a little bigger
second, going from a park specific ski like the dumonts, to something like the lizzies with a 110mm waist, you are going to feel a difference in skiing no matter what the weight difference between skis is.
thats my 2 cents.
Dec 30 2008 10:23PM
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mccsteezy
Posts: 1170 - Karma: 38
one thing is though that its not really how tall you are for skis, its how much you weigh. but lizzies are the sickest skis ever
Dec 30 2008 10:30PM
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gnarrr
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i think they would be too short and too soft for you.
Dec 30 2008 10:30PM
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MEGAZORD
Posts: 4531 - Karma: -7
I am roughly the same size as you.  I try and find the biggest skis that they make.  A 172 ski is practically a snowblade, not to mention you look like a fucking goon on the hill with little skis. 
Dec 30 2008 10:37PM
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