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Flex and General Characteristics on Batalla Park Reapers?

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rickmorty
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Really interested in these skis for park since mine are on the way out, sidecut looks cool. Just a few questions about the skis:

Flex: responsive, buttery? Are they rockered? I'm a bigger guy at 6"4 and I tend to at least try to charge hard into features. That said I still love buttering on to shit. Hard to find something that fits the bill.

For perspective I've ridden on K2 domains and loved them for the playfulness on rails, butters, nollies etc. but found them to not be ideal when carving hard into shit, or taking on bigger landings.

I've also ridden the recoils which were wayyy better in terms of pop and carving, and still decently "butterable" if thats a word, but much harder to nollie and press.

So how is this ski by comparison? Construction/quality looks top notch so that's no worry, looking forward to feedback.
Jan 14 2015 2:24AM
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.lencon
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Hey man. The reapers are stiff. Stiffer than domains for sure, but at your size you could do some butters, but they won't be as a playful feel. They have quite a bit of rocker in both tip and tail. I'd say about 37cm tip, 30 tail. Sidecut is really fun, never had a ski that turns like that. Does awesome in all mtn conditions. My first run I took them through 8+ inches of pow and I was more than fine. I found them to be inconsistent at times on ice and hockey stopping at high speeds was scary for some reason, I think I just need to detune the edge tho. Good off jumps and in the air. Not a lot of camber.
Jan 14 2015 9:49AM
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rickmorty
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.LincolnHey man. The reapers are stiff. Stiffer than domains for sure, but at your size you could do some butters, but they won't be as a playful feel. They have quite a bit of rocker in both tip and tail. I'd say about 37cm tip, 30 tail. Sidecut is really fun, never had a ski that turns like that. Does awesome in all mtn conditions. My first run I took them through 8+ inches of pow and I was more than fine. I found them to be inconsistent at times on ice and hockey stopping at high speeds was scary for some reason, I think I just need to detune the edge tho. Good off jumps and in the air. Not a lot of camber.


Cool thanks for the info man, would you be able to compare the stiffness to another ski you've ridden? Also does the rocker cause the ski to get a bit unstable or is that not an issue?
Jan 14 2015 8:34PM
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.lencon
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rickmortyCool thanks for the info man, would you be able to compare the stiffness to another ski you've ridden? Also does the rocker cause the ski to get a bit unstable or is that not an issue?


Nah it's not unstable at all. It's probably the stiffest "jib" or "park" ski I've been on. Rocker makes it somewhat playful tho. I'm 125 and 5'7 and had a hard time flexing. I could tell if someone bigger got on them they would flex them more. But it's stiffer than 4frnt yle and line chronic
Jan 14 2015 9:28PM
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