I'm new to the park, my goals would be buttering, rails, and small jumps like 180s/360s (no flips). I'm 5'9, 175lbs, ski east coast and do basically anything that doesn't have bumps.
I'm currently on 172cm 2023 Enforcer 88s and unknown length 2015 Armada ar7s
https://www.evo.com/outlet/skis/armada-ar7-2015. I quite like the Armadas for goofing off and skiing switch but for the life of me I cannot get them to butter. Popped my boot out of the binding at Din 7 trying to nose butter in the house, and on snow it felt like I was either going to rip the binding out or fall on my face before getting them on their noses. Was able to kinda sorta tail butter for like half a second. I'm hoping this is actually a gear issue and not a skill issue, so I've been shopping for softer skis. I'd like to be able to make it down a groomer although I don't need them to be an all-mountain ski. I've never done rails and recently fell on my thigh trying to slide a box sideways, so I'm starting from square one there.
The "short" list of skis I've been looking at would be
Armada Edollo
J skis All Play
Line Tom Wallisch
Line Sir Francis Bacon
Icelantic Nomad
Salomon Depart 1.0
All around 176-178cm, just because that's what I'm guessing would be a good size for me
All of these are basically based off of the Newschoolers Roofbox in-depth reviews. What would be a good way for me to start at least narrowing these down / do any of you have personal experience with any of them? Closest I've gotten is seeing somebody on the Wallisch's at the park last week. None of the mountains near me demo park skis, and the J skis demo outlet doesn't demo the Allplay or Joyrides.
Thanks
