Kea
Diva in Training
Greetings, ladies.
I'm a newbie here, an expert skier with park and racing background and severe ankle injury.
My teenage daughter needs a pair of front side - all mountain skis suitable for our local conditions: hard cord, lots of ice, rare powder, crud, nasty moguls, corn, snow conditions change fast. She is a decent skier, started skiing as a toddler and mastered her first doubles before she turned 5, has successfully participated in several races. Her current skis are well outgrown racing Atomic, they do not work very well anywhere except for corduroy. She likes race-style carving on the upper mountain cord and needs skis that can deal with messy snow at lower elevations. She wouldn't mind following me for some off-piste adventures if her new skis would be able to handle some deeper and more dense snow, bumps, drops.
She has ridden my park skis as a temporary solution but wasn't excited about her experience.
My current go-arounds are 2014 Dynastar Cham 87 and I love them. I closely watched many different skis in similar width and have not found a single one that can match my Chams in their ability to do incredibly sharp and short turns in about any snow conditions pretty much at any speed. I carve literally like on my good old racing Fishers and do not feel those 87 mm under my feet. Had my Chams been a bit stiffer, I would have called them my ideal skis.
I have not seen Glory 89 but my understanding is that they have comparable geometry yet metal reinforcement that gives them some extra stiffness.
Can't get my head around. Money are tight. Pretty much no demoing available. Talk to me, please. Thank you
I'm a newbie here, an expert skier with park and racing background and severe ankle injury.
My teenage daughter needs a pair of front side - all mountain skis suitable for our local conditions: hard cord, lots of ice, rare powder, crud, nasty moguls, corn, snow conditions change fast. She is a decent skier, started skiing as a toddler and mastered her first doubles before she turned 5, has successfully participated in several races. Her current skis are well outgrown racing Atomic, they do not work very well anywhere except for corduroy. She likes race-style carving on the upper mountain cord and needs skis that can deal with messy snow at lower elevations. She wouldn't mind following me for some off-piste adventures if her new skis would be able to handle some deeper and more dense snow, bumps, drops.
She has ridden my park skis as a temporary solution but wasn't excited about her experience.
My current go-arounds are 2014 Dynastar Cham 87 and I love them. I closely watched many different skis in similar width and have not found a single one that can match my Chams in their ability to do incredibly sharp and short turns in about any snow conditions pretty much at any speed. I carve literally like on my good old racing Fishers and do not feel those 87 mm under my feet. Had my Chams been a bit stiffer, I would have called them my ideal skis.
I have not seen Glory 89 but my understanding is that they have comparable geometry yet metal reinforcement that gives them some extra stiffness.
Can't get my head around. Money are tight. Pretty much no demoing available. Talk to me, please. Thank you