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Pow skiis?

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joburrr
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I'm getting pow skis and I'm curious what suggestions you have?
Mar 12 2012 11:17PM
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LDV
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Caylors or Pillowfights.
Mar 13 2012 12:05AM
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rudager
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NEED MORE INFO

Height?
Weight?
How strong of a skier are you?
Deep powder to play with?
Charging cliffs?
Soft?
Stiff?
Directional?
Where do you live?
Mar 13 2012 12:06AM
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VD.
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True, ON3P is a quality company and their skis are $$$ ... I use caylors as my everyday and wouldn't want to be on any thing else. They rip powder, I find when I want they are playful but when I need they are insane. Their medium stiff flex allows me to stomp all day long with complete confidence. On groomed run they carve as well if not better than my line prophet 100s, and for a ski of their size they have phenomonal grip on ice. Definately size up for the caylor, I'm 5'9" and ride the 191, it feels perfect I wouldn't want to be on a 181. I can't comment on the pillow fight as I've never ridden them, but from what I've heard everyone who has ridden them loved them.

Joey
Mar 13 2012 12:28AM
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KillaSteeze
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i absolutely love my k2 hellbents, so much fun in the pow
Mar 13 2012 2:00AM
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Kreech
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^I have hellbents and they're fun in pure powder and carve pretty well on grooms, but in crud and chop you can expect to take a serious beating. Also, I would recommend looking into something with a long but LOW rocker (ie line opus, moment night train, 4frnt renegade/hoji, etc) because on my hellbents you can actually feel when you hit a patch of deep powder, you really slow down and while you stay on top, you're pushing a lot of snow instead of planing on top. It's kind of frustrating sometimes. But yeah we need more info before we can really recommend a specific ski.
Mar 13 2012 2:05AM
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Shlobby
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caylors
Mar 13 2012 1:19PM
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joburrr
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are the caylors good in pow? and i was kinda thinking about armada jjs
Mar 15 2012 2:13AM
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VD.
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The caylors are phenominal in powder, you will find them to be much more stable at speed than JJs and in my opinion are more versatile over the mountain
Mar 15 2012 2:22AM
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MothaHucker
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you still have not given us any additional information to go on to determine this....
Mar 15 2012 2:40AM
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KillaSteeze
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so true actually
Mar 15 2012 2:53AM
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Jo_n
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Im on the JJ this year, i would recomend it for a fun playful pow ski.
Mar 15 2012 11:10PM
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Dr.Gonzo
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i wish i needed pow skis, hopefully i will in the coming future when i reach da west! i cant wait pow looks fun as fuck.
Mar 15 2012 11:15PM
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Skiingsnow
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EHP's are the shit
Mar 15 2012 11:17PM
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nurickr
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Anyone ridden bentchetlers? looking for a backcountry charger after snapping my (shite) Kung fujas

~75 kg, aggressive skiier, cliffs, trees, pow you name it.

Mar 16 2012 5:47AM
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rudager
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You want a stiff charging pow ski? Check out the Surface New Life as well. 122mm waist, decent rocker, stiff. I wrote up a review in my profile
Mar 16 2012 9:54AM
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Kreech
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^will you be skiing backwards much? If not, I can think of a bunch of directional chargers that would be better than the chetlers. (renegades, 191 Billy goats, ehps/hojis, bibby specials, etc.) there are actually quite a few bidirectional skis that can charge harder than chetlers, although the chetlers can be drives plenty hard. What you need to ask yourself is, do I want a bc jib ski that I can go moderately fast on, or do I want a ski that I won't be fucking around with but will just use to point straight down the
Mar 16 2012 9:55AM
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Kreech
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Mountain and let it go? It's your call, but if you want our advice, you gotta tell us.
Mar 16 2012 9:56AM
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