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Mark brings up some good points.. are you primarily an east coast skier or a west coast skier ?
I didn't mean to imply that you don't bend your knees,, you certainly still need to do that, ,however you don't need to bend the ski to turn it , hence you don't need a stiff boot anymore.
I will disagree with him however on the noodles.. If you're not skiing steep hardback maybe you can get away with some of the west coast ski's that they sell out here, but trust me I've demo'd a lot of the newer ski's and they are just not made for high speed high pack, they will chatter.. but my experience is only with 189-198 cm 's ( I still like them long)