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2011 Rossignol S6? or armada arv?
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First off a little bit about me.
Hello, my name is Cam and I ski in the East coast. I am an ADVANCE TYPE 3+ SKIER that skis everything. but, what I'm looking for in this future pair of skis is a ski that can handle park, groomers, powder, legitimately everything. I am 14 6'4, 250 pounds. i like a ski with a medium flex.
How would the armada arv (last years) compare with the rossignol S6 (2011) for what i want. Is there anything i forgot to mention?
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The s6 is 110 underfoot and would more directly compare to the pre early rise sfb. That being said, the arv is a great medium to med soft flex ski, super stable at speed, 95 undefoot, so its somewhat capable off trail, sets a good edge and is stable at speed. I think u would be super happy w/ the arv, but I would recommend that u demo them, because at 250 ur idea of medium flex might be a little different than most people
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so are there any reasons that everyone likes the arv? and how do they butter?
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They will butter way better than the s6. They r pretty soft for that type of ski, super playful for a traditional camber ski, but still at home charging
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The arv sounds like it would fit my needs. My next question is if it would be worth getting a marker schizo binding. i am not asking about durability because i have been riding marker griffons for 2 years and had no problems but for practicality. will it make that much of a difference in carving if i center mount these and will it make that much difference in swing weight if i mount traditional?
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you ride griffins at 250 lbs?
ok, well then i dont need a bigger binding
and i deff think that you want somthing stiffer, look into last years volkl bridges. they are stiff and carve like it's nobody's business. they also handle pow pretty well too.
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i will definately take those into consideration and what is your BSL it makes a huge difference in how much force is put on your binding. i being heavy and having a big foot have a lower din (8-10) while you being lighter and having a smaller foot might need a higher din
(12-14 possibly)
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i'm heavy, i'm 5'7 and 175 i ride my griffins at 8 and my sth 12's at 9 i have 27.5 spks
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As for mounting, how often do u ski switch or ride park vs. the rest of the mtn,
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i am about 40% park 60% all mountain on average, some days all park, and some days all groomers.
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i am in 31.0 head boots and ride an 8 on my griffons too. as you can see a big difference in height weight and bsl. your bindings probably have more stress on them
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I wouldn't go true center if u ski the rest of the mountain more than park. I hope someone comes on that knows more about, or has skied the arv in multiple mounting positions, as I have only skied them at recommended, but at ur weight there is no way I would mount them center
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Could you explain to me why that is?
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i really would invest in 2 pairs of skis,
i started with a pair of volkl bridges. but they wern't doing it for me in the park, so i bought a pair of afterbangs. preferablly i wish i had a pair of symmetrical park sticks and then a pair of rockered pow skis
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i probably should have mentioned this but if i am doing straight park then i have a pair of salomon teneighties from 2008-2009. i am wondering which of these 2 skis would be best all mountain with park and groomers and trees and the little pow we get on the east coast. this would be my second ski. basically would it make sense to get a pow ski that can do all mountain or an all mountain ski that can do pow
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pow that can do all mountian, most deff.
like atomic blogs, jj's, SFB's ect
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i can get a good deal on a pair of sir francis bacons from last year. how would they compare to the others in all mountain characteristics as well as park and moguls.
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sfb's would be good, they are pow sticks but without rocker, so they would perform great all mountain as well as in the pow
i would jump on those, personally i find my park skis work better in moguls than my bridges, the flex is just too unforgiving
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Because the further forward u mount the more tip pressure there is, and at over 200lbs increased tip pressure is gonna make ur skis wanna turn more, and the further forward u put the bindings, the less stable ur skis r gonna be at speed and in varied condition snow. Unless the skis have a symetrical sidecut
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does anyone know how the arvs stiffness and sirfrancis bacons compare to the atomic patent if the patent is a 3 on a stiffness scale from one to ten?
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Bacons are pollards stiffest skis especially last year, but they are no way super stiff, I would give it a 5 or 6 on the stiffness scale, but that's just from hand flexing
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how is the durability on the nordica zeros? does anyone know anything about them? would they do the things i want in a ski?
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