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Traditionally mounted skis to your park skis

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tsk94
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So I've done a fair bit of searching around and haven't seemed to come across anything like this so I thought I'd ask you guys what you thought. So I started off my season of my normal all mountain skis, some Volkl Kendo's, and if any of you have seen them of skied them you know that the mount point is pretty far back (I believe around -13-14cm from true centre). So skied so for a couple of days just lapping groomers and bumps to get my legs back, then about a week ago went back to my park skis, Salomon Twenty Twelves, mounted 1 cm back from true centre. I felt terrible, relatively speaking, going from my all mountain skis back to my park skis after an off season. It's not that I couldn't ski well on my park skis, but just riding around the mountain I didn't feel nearly as comfortable as on the Kendos. Now I'm positive the reason would be the mount point, I didn't feel as confident banging out quick turns in the bumps and the 3D snow in the trees, on groomers it was fine. SO, my question is being how do you guys transition nicely from your (if you have some) more traditional skis to your park skis? I'm thinking I should just be trying to ski them in a more centred stance, it could also be that's I've only been on snow a few days this season so far, so the legs are still coming back.. idk. Would like to hear what you guys think.

Nov 21 2013 10:49PM
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RubberSoul
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well it depends on your skiing ability and style/preferences.. you might simply prefer a more "traditional" mount, with less tail and more nose, or vice versa

but they each have their respective strengths and weaknesses as you obviously know, and personally i'd say just stick with it and get used to it

i skied nothing but up-mounted park skis for years, and when i finally got a charging ski with a farther back mount, it definitely took some getting used to. but within a few days i got used to it, and then got used to switching between the two-- after a week on both, the orientation period shrank from a day or two to 1/2 a run.. you switch skis, ride 500 feet, and remind yourself to ever so slightly change your balance and turns

my 2 cents
Nov 22 2013 3:14PM
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Sir_Huckington
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I switch between my after bangs and my prophets on the daily. half a morning i ride the groomers then in the afternoon, i grab lunch and hit the park yes it dose take min to remember where you are on your skis but the more you do it the more u get used to it.

only time I really had an issue was starting out on a true center mounted ski then switching to a more traditional mount. back seated a bit to much and they kicked out from under me.

Nov 22 2013 11:11PM
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