Post by superbman on Jan 3, 2015 6:11:10 GMT -7
So, My patrol director is a regional Rep for Dynastar, and he keeps a number of current Dynastar demos in his office for folks to try. He mistakenly ordered a 175cm 2015 Dynastar Slicer, a 98mm wide, heavily rockered tip and tail and almost flat camber wood core twin tip with a 21mm radius turn. He took it out a few days ago on firmer snow, with low expectations just to get a feel for what he had ordered….he came back, completely surprised. He said he couldn't believe (or really understand) how well this ski held an edge on very firm, irregular snow….like carving ski good with an added stability and dampness not present in most front side carvers. He's been urging others to sample it as well...
Yesterday was a pretty challenging day at the Hill, heavy race training, icey snow, recently made, still wet and frozen man made snow had created some very difficult surfaces. I dropped off my usual carvers for a tune and went to my director's office to sample the Dynastar Chrome 78 Pro (figuring a more powerful frontside carver would be the ticket), but someone else was using it and he said, Try the slicer, you'll be shocked.
Well, I did and he was right. I skied for about an hour around steeper, very firm, flat light trails and I couldn't believe or understand (based on the skis appearance and turn radius) how well these planks bit into the ice, held an edge, linked seamless turns of varying radii and stayed damp, stable and controlled throughout. As my faith in these boards superseded my visual apprehensions, I skied them faster and faster, making calm carved turns where most were skidding and drifting at best.
Now I haven't tried these in anything else but early January super hard pack and, for the first time in a while, ice, but I was more than impressed by their mannerisms, I was shocked. I'll get these out again in softer, and hopefully deeper conditions. However, I expect them to do well there. Like Jackson Hogan suggests, it's finding out how well a ski handles conditions it is not specifically designed for that tells you how worthy a ski really is.
Maybe next week I'll post up some video from skiing harder snow on these skis…we'll see.
I'd love to try the 181cm version of this ski. If it retains the great hard snow mannerisms while remaining nimble in heavier and deeper snow…It'll be a real winner, a potential quiver killer.
Yeah, shocked.
Yesterday was a pretty challenging day at the Hill, heavy race training, icey snow, recently made, still wet and frozen man made snow had created some very difficult surfaces. I dropped off my usual carvers for a tune and went to my director's office to sample the Dynastar Chrome 78 Pro (figuring a more powerful frontside carver would be the ticket), but someone else was using it and he said, Try the slicer, you'll be shocked.
Well, I did and he was right. I skied for about an hour around steeper, very firm, flat light trails and I couldn't believe or understand (based on the skis appearance and turn radius) how well these planks bit into the ice, held an edge, linked seamless turns of varying radii and stayed damp, stable and controlled throughout. As my faith in these boards superseded my visual apprehensions, I skied them faster and faster, making calm carved turns where most were skidding and drifting at best.
Now I haven't tried these in anything else but early January super hard pack and, for the first time in a while, ice, but I was more than impressed by their mannerisms, I was shocked. I'll get these out again in softer, and hopefully deeper conditions. However, I expect them to do well there. Like Jackson Hogan suggests, it's finding out how well a ski handles conditions it is not specifically designed for that tells you how worthy a ski really is.
Maybe next week I'll post up some video from skiing harder snow on these skis…we'll see.
I'd love to try the 181cm version of this ski. If it retains the great hard snow mannerisms while remaining nimble in heavier and deeper snow…It'll be a real winner, a potential quiver killer.
Yeah, shocked.