I started last season in Tahoe and am now in the Wasatch.Utah. I have just been buying cheap used skiis that are way too old because I beat them up going where I shouldn't off piste and on thin coverage, because I'm cheap and I didnt really know what i wanted either. Now that my skiing has evolved to the point where I am regularly hitting natural jumps, doing tight trees, sending cornices and staying off piste all day I feel like the skis are really holding me back. Currently I have Blizzard Cochises from 2013 the orange ones with the bull on them. They are sooooo ***ing heavy. I can not get them to swing around in time for the skiing i like to do, in trees, in chutes etc. I honestly don't know what blizzard made these things for or why everyone loved them so much. They were good in powder, but not that much better than some of the pre powder ski era all mountains I've tried like the bandit B3. I mis being able to turn like I could on my b 3 bandits. And being able to ski super steep technical stuff with confidence because I knew I could turn with ease.
I feel like at this point I really want to get bigger jumps, maybe learn to 360, learn switch well, ski harder chutes and keep doing the trees and steep bowls I have already been doing.
So I want some advice on what people think I should get. so far I feel like I need twin tip, but not sure if full rocker or rocker camber rocker is best.Carving and hardback performance is of almost 0 concern but i still need to be able to do it. I dont really feel like I need anything bigger than 108 underfoot even on deep pow days, so I'm thinking 98-108 underfoot. I want a good turn radius, so I can do tight trees and technical bowls and chutes with a lot of obstacles. Or perhaps its not even turn radius im thinking of but ability to swing the skis around. I want them to be really light. The blizzards i have feel like tanks. Insanely heavy like maybe only good for skiing down chopped out bowls above tree line in wide sweeping turns/straight lines. I want something I can do steeper runs with tighter turns and much lighter. I also want to learn switch better, and maybe learn 360 and do bigger jumps .My friend recommended the fischer rangers. I have had my eye on the candide 3.0s anyone have any advice please?? Also I am skiing advanced and expert terrain but not like a complete expert all the time. Its possible i am good with the blizzard cochises but I just need to get better technique i dont know.
**This thread was edited on Jan 19th 2019 at 1:29:22am