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How wide to float or at least be decent in powder?
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How wide should your ski be to be at least decent in powder. I am gonna buy the blends, but now I kinda want the watch lifes, but is 82 wide enough for powder?
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Anything is wide enough. You just may have more fun on a 110 waist ski.
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also depends upon size. if you're kinda small, 82 would be fine. i'm like six feet tall and 180 pounds so i need something a little wider, say mid 90's at least.
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It all depends on what ski it is. I have a pair of skis with a 97mm waist that float about as well as a parapalegic in a pool. However, I have ridden significantly narrower skis that are powder-specific and had no trouble floating. Float in powder sometimes has more to do with the skis flex, mounting point, and shape that it has to do with the waist.
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I am 5'7'' and weigh 160lbs. I think I need between 185-190
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considering that you can ski powder on skinnies from the 90s that are like 50mm underfoot.. anything these days will surprisingly kick ass, but over 80mm will guarantee it good.. but as the guy above said, mount point is everything, a true twintip mount at halfway will mean you need wider skis underfoot as you have less shovel..
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if your buying blends, you'll float
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Go over 100 mm and dont look back, super-fats are the shit.
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it depends on if you know how to ski
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exactly what i was going to say...fat skis mean nothing. If you actually know how to ride powder you shouldnt even need to be on anything wider then a 180. people were shreddin pow in the 80s with way narrower shit then what people are ridin in pow today
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yeah but back then everyone rocked 205's and shit with like 5 and a half feet of nose in front of you... its not pretty.
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^^heh... well it's kind of pretty with the pink hotpants// 205, man, I had 210s..
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i've used the rossi scratch and the AR5 in 2 feet+ of snow. if you go fast and ski right you'll be fine, but if you aren't a cheap bastard like me, you can get a wider all purpose ski
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About 2 years ago I was a noob to the world of ski equipment info and was skiing on a 170cm ski w/ a 65 underfoot in Park City bowls. I consider myself a good skier and had zero issue except for a brief one day adjustment from the ice coast to west pow.
I was just there again this past Feb. and was riding on Line Prophet 80; I like them a lot; but can see myself going as high ass the 100 if there’s a lot of free pow.
Oh and I'm 5'11 180 for a comparison scale.
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I was unaware that 100+ means superfat.
105 is the new 80.
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I dunno how wide snowblades are, but I hear they rip in powder.
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dude go as big as you want i have 125 under foot those baby's float
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haha i laughed at thay one a lil
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Amen. Anything over 100 will be way more fun. I notice a huge difference between my P4s and my Firstbloods.
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prophet 130s are pretty much the only ski that will work in powder. anything smaller is for girly men
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God you guys are grossly misinformed it makes me sick! Everyone is always talking about "how wide to float good". Do you guys ever stop to think that float has everything to do with surface area and shape and not specifically width, and one way to achieve that is by increasing length. If you are a 6 foot 200 pounder skiing 169 pistols sure they have a decent waist but they are so fucking short you will ski powder like shit and will be tip diving constantly. I'm not saying width doesn't matter, it does. But, from personal experience and experience of people I trust length is far more important to a skis powder performance. So before you go and try to buy the hugest ridiculously big traditional shaped ski *cough*kingswood*cough* look into maybe something with a waist that you can actually utilize all-mountain and maybe just step up the length a bit to increase stability.
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I feel that anything over 90mm is fine if you get a decent length. So I'd look in that range if you want something good for everything from park to powder.
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Dude my friends ride invaders and TM's in the poppy fields
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yea, if you think about it, look what they rode in pow way back in the day, if they can ride those, you can ride anythging in pow
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yea and more float= less faceshots!
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There's a reason we don't ride skinny 205's anymore. We have wide ones now!
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