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Salomon Foils VS Fischer Addicts
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which is the better park ski. im 5'10 140lbs and am wondering which would be a better ski for me
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the addicts do delam a lot, but there a good stiffness and they look pretty sick too
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yo basically the foils are sick. I rode mine this season pretty hard. They have held pretty perfectly, i have one crack in my edge but thats expected. i ski in ontario where we have steep pretty icy shit. I kept my skis in perfect condition(no rails) for about a week. that week the skis fucking ripped the ice. im a ex racer and they felt identical to the crossmax's. so much fun. but in spring when the snow is soft they rip through it easily. since its pretty wide (87) it doesn't edge into the snow too deeply. so you can rip threw the soft clumpy snow no problems.
as for the park there sick. you can butter them around. nose press and tail presses, easy peasy. they are pretty damn stable landing jumps. the foils makes it so you end up stomping some pretty sketchy landings. and carving off the lip, all you need to do is put the skis on their sides and they carve and start your rotations perfectly.
in powder the skis float nicely. we had some big snow days and they worked great, keeping above the snow but definitly lacked the big powder ski feel. remembering the skis are relatively skinny for a powder ski.
personally i think that the foils are one off the best all mountain/park skis you can buy. but i don't think you are lucking for all mountain. you have to know how to really ski to get the most of the these skis.
the addict focuses on the park. it was designed with slopestyle in mind. on the ski, from the centre outwards there is no defined tip and no defined tip. you can choose which way you want your bindings mounted. that is about all i know about the addict
im not knocking the addict im saying just saying the foils are fucking sick. by the way my set up: 182 with 914 bindings. and 6' 175
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