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Originally Posted by stealthn
Good stuff!
As for the skis I am constantly fighting everyone to stay on my old 205 narrow skis, not matter the ski shop, rental shop (kids) my wife, everyone says “oh you need to go to the new skis, they are so much easier”. I don’t want to, I’ve ski’d on these for 20+ years and love then, before that I raced for years on 215’s and could even take the steep mogul runs in them.
Sure new skis may be easier but I love to use pure technique to ski well on my old boards. Plus I love people eyeing them in the lift lines.
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I'm right there with you buddy! I like my old skis. Last new pair I bought was 25 years ago. I'm small, and an old-school monroe-matic knees-welded bumper, so the longest pair I own is 197cm. But they still tower over every other pair on the parking lot shuttle. I'm sure the new equuipment is much easier, but there was a joy in perfecting technique that is now missing from the sport. You had to earn your way to certain places on the mountain. Now its all about doing silly tricks, and pretty much anybody can ski anything.
Oh, yeah, I like my old body bags too. I get a lot of scornful laughs. But I'm cozy and dry on powder days.