Full disclaimer, I have not, and will not ever give up skiboarding! or my love for it! if it wasn't for skiboarding i wouldn't be into snow sports, and i love snow! I've got my crossbows on their way to me now and they will be my first board over 89cm. I'm sure i'll take a bit to adjust to them. But it had me thinking....
assuming i get the knack of the longer board. If i wanted to try an actual long ski, what would be the right shape and features to look for that would be a sort of natural progression to that longer ski? I see a few postings on craigslist each day for semi cheap skis, and some seem more 'attractive' looking to me like larger skiboards, like these:
(didnt know how to put the pictures here, they are attached middle one seemed most interesting to me.)
now i dont know if they are kids skis or powder skies or anything. And also This isn't to 'leave' skiboarding. Its more so to cheaply give it a try, could i rent a pair at the mountain? Probably, but probably cost me the same amount. I'm planning to head up to canada and we'll be out in the boonies so i wont have easy access to buy something as cheaply and abundantly as down here in seattle and they may not have something on the shorter side like i'd want to try at the mountain to rent. I'm only 5'7 so i dont think i'd wana go above 160. and i dont really ever do back country or super thick powder (unless its dumping and just all over the groomers, it would be nice to handle fresh powder dump, but i mostly groomer carve. Mostly it would be nice to appease the gf's dad who keeps wanting me to try longer ski's and also being able to keep up with them as they barrel down the mountain and i have to stop to catch my breath and rest my fire breathing legs.
Look i get that everyone is cringing as they read a post like this. But I'm not going to change my liking.. I'm a roller skater so i love short stuff. My grooves will always be the boards i bust out when i just want to have to have fun spinning and fakie and hoping through moguls... maybe i'll even buy a a revl8 some day.. and i'm hoping my crossbows will be my 90%ers for anything when i'm uncertain or just to feel relaxed but overall my 1 in quiver. I just figure i'd like to try a ski at least once in my life so i can especially know its not for me, or if it is for me, to just have another option to break out when i'm with breakneck skiers who dont want to wait up for me and my little skiboards just cant keep up..
heck i dont even have to buy anything, but it would be nice to know what i should look for from a longer ski to see what that stepped up stability and speed would feel like.I'm suspecting i'll dislike the long drawn out turns and probably struggle a ton.. but hey its life, as long as it doesnt kill me or break me too bad, i cant complain too much for having given it a go!
Please feel free to chime with your thoughts if you tried skies from skiboards and what you liked or didnt like? (are fat tips and rears bad? are long skinny annoying and only for speed? whatever floats here!
and... GO!
assuming i get the knack of the longer board. If i wanted to try an actual long ski, what would be the right shape and features to look for that would be a sort of natural progression to that longer ski? I see a few postings on craigslist each day for semi cheap skis, and some seem more 'attractive' looking to me like larger skiboards, like these:
(didnt know how to put the pictures here, they are attached middle one seemed most interesting to me.)
now i dont know if they are kids skis or powder skies or anything. And also This isn't to 'leave' skiboarding. Its more so to cheaply give it a try, could i rent a pair at the mountain? Probably, but probably cost me the same amount. I'm planning to head up to canada and we'll be out in the boonies so i wont have easy access to buy something as cheaply and abundantly as down here in seattle and they may not have something on the shorter side like i'd want to try at the mountain to rent. I'm only 5'7 so i dont think i'd wana go above 160. and i dont really ever do back country or super thick powder (unless its dumping and just all over the groomers, it would be nice to handle fresh powder dump, but i mostly groomer carve. Mostly it would be nice to appease the gf's dad who keeps wanting me to try longer ski's and also being able to keep up with them as they barrel down the mountain and i have to stop to catch my breath and rest my fire breathing legs.
Look i get that everyone is cringing as they read a post like this. But I'm not going to change my liking.. I'm a roller skater so i love short stuff. My grooves will always be the boards i bust out when i just want to have to have fun spinning and fakie and hoping through moguls... maybe i'll even buy a a revl8 some day.. and i'm hoping my crossbows will be my 90%ers for anything when i'm uncertain or just to feel relaxed but overall my 1 in quiver. I just figure i'd like to try a ski at least once in my life so i can especially know its not for me, or if it is for me, to just have another option to break out when i'm with breakneck skiers who dont want to wait up for me and my little skiboards just cant keep up..
heck i dont even have to buy anything, but it would be nice to know what i should look for from a longer ski to see what that stepped up stability and speed would feel like.I'm suspecting i'll dislike the long drawn out turns and probably struggle a ton.. but hey its life, as long as it doesnt kill me or break me too bad, i cant complain too much for having given it a go!
Please feel free to chime with your thoughts if you tried skies from skiboards and what you liked or didnt like? (are fat tips and rears bad? are long skinny annoying and only for speed? whatever floats here!
and... GO!
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