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ThePierceStudios
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My entire life I have been focusing more on backcountry skiing and searching for powder lines, stuff like that. This season I'm gonna try to get more into park. I already of a touring rig that I use for all mountain so, now all I need is a dedicated park rig. What skis do you guys recommend?

I'm 5'10" and am interested in a good all around park ski, like something that can be used in Slopestyle comps. I would be doing more rails than massive jumps though.

Price range would be up to $600 dollars but would prefer to be lower than that
Dec 4 2014 2:16PM
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gimmiedatpow
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you still have to decide what kind of a park ski you want (a wider one, rockered one or just a traditional park ski). Id recommend brands like Line (they have some pretty awesome skis that arent super expensive, like the blend or the chronic), but you can also go for some higher quality skis like ON3Ps (Ive heard good things about the filthy rich), faction (the 1.0s or the more all mountain jib oriented 2.0). Also a lot of people are starting to use the Atomic Infamous or the salomon rocker 100 at my home mountain.
Dec 4 2014 2:33PM
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ThePierceStudios
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gimmiedatpowyou still have to decide what kind of a park ski you want (a wider one, rockered one or just a traditional park ski). Id recommend brands like Line (they have some pretty awesome skis that arent super expensive, like the blend or the chronic), but you can also go for some higher quality skis like ON3Ps (Ive heard good things about the filthy rich), faction (the 1.0s or the more all mountain jib oriented 2.0). Also a lot of people are starting to use the Atomic Infamous or the salomon rocker 100 at my home mountain.



What are the pros and cons of each type?
How would you compare the Prester and the filthy rich?
Dec 4 2014 2:51PM
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gimmiedatpow
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ThePierceStudiosWhat are the pros and cons of each type?
How would you compare the Prester and the filthy rich?


Usually the rockered or wider ones are more jib specific, the traditional cambered ones will be nicer on big jumps/ hold up better on landings. I personally prefer the wider and rockered ones because its just fun to butter and jib around, IMO grinding is also easier with them(plus they are fun in pow and backcountry jumps too). I think that in the end it all comes down to preference and what you wanna do, but id recommend the jib specific ones if youre not gonna triple cork the xgames big air
Dec 5 2014 4:17AM
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gimmiedatpow
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here are some skis id personally consider buying(I prefer wider ones):
- salomon rocker2 100
- faction candide 2.0 / 1.0
- line blend
- ON3P filthy rich
- ON3P Kartel 106 / Kartel 98
- K2 shreditor 102
- Surface all mtn blanks / Surface odyssey

(Ive heard that Surface skis break easily from a lot of other people, but my Surface pow skis have held up perfectly for 2 seasons)

here are some other skis you cant go wrong with:
- icelantic da nollie (and maybe gypsy skny)
- moment frankenski / vice / tahoe
- armada park skis (al dente / bdog / thall / ar7)
- atomic infamous (really cheap & a nice mix of jib and jump ski IMO)
- line park skis (blend / chronic / Traveling circus / future spins / mastermind / ive seen a lot of broken afterbangs so i dont recommend those)
- nordica soul rider
Dec 5 2014 8:13AM
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