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Faction Candide 1.0 vs Rossignol Scratches
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I'm looking for a park ski that is very light and will be durable. I'm 5'6 and 130lbs. I have been interested in these two skis and would like a ski with low swing weight
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I was recently deciding between these two skis myself and what decided it for me was the fact that the Candide 1.0 does not scale down proportionally. Since you are a smaller skier like me, you probably won't be buying the 182 length. This is the length that Candide would ride and likely had some input in designing, and it has a nice medium sidecut of 17m.
The smaller versions however, were not scaled at all, they kept the tip-waist-tail measurements the same. This means you get a distorted, and very short sidecut in the smaller sizes.
The Scratch suffers from some distortion in the smaller sizes as well, but they did put some thought into making it not as extreme. They actually resize the tip and tail, as well as the waist, to maintain a less drastic resizing of the sidecut in the smaller sizes. My Scratches are in the shop right now otherwise I could list you the spec change. I do remember that the waist width on my 160's is 81 NOT 84 like what is listed. This is good because it means they tried to keep the original design intent true in ALL the sizes, instead of just cut and pasting the tip-waist-tail for every size, which distorts the sidecut.
I'll be skiing them next week and can give you a better review then, if you still haven't decided.
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