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Progressing into park... help me pick out some skis for next season?
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Hi I'm new here and came for advice about my next pair of skis. I just recently got into park skiing and currently ski an old pair of Salomon 1080 Foils so I could progress into the park (which when I bought them basically meant I want to be able to ski backwards and do 180s) while still having something for the rest of the mountain.
Now that I've got the basics of jibbing, throwing a 3, and skiing switch, I would like to pick up a ski that is much more park oriented: something that is a little more flexible so I'll have an easier time with butters and such. I'd say these would be 70% to 80% park skis. I almost never ski powder. My price range is up to about $500. I'm 5'6 130 lbs.
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I'll recommend a couple of skis i've used before and heard good things about. There are so many options, it can be hard to choose. Automatically when you say a softer ski, I think of line afterbangs. I love afterbangs for park, they're best for rails, not as good on big jumps but since your recently getting into park you probably won't do huge jumps anyways. I think a good ski would be scott p3s, they seem pretty soft for a ski that is still good on large jumps. You want a ski around 165-172.
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AR7s are a pretty solid ski to develop your park skills on
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Thanks a lot, yeah the biggest jump I've done is maybe 30 ft. so chances of me going much bigger than that in the near future are slim to none. I'll check out the Scotts. I have looked into the Halo, Alpha 1, Ledges, Mastermind, Liberty LTE and Morphic, and several Moments.
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yeah, those are all great skis, halo's are sick. a guy at my hill has them and he loves them. they look really fun.
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