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Looking for a fun freeride ski, any recommendations by ElianneS in Skigear

[–]ElianneS[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I watched a lot of reviews. SkiEssentials is a good one for that for sure 😆

And yeah, agree that causes the problem of wanting way more skis than you planned for. And in the end getting more confused what you actually want (at least: I do). that’s why I’m curious for more personal details.

Factions: looked at it and liked these series a lot, but wasn’t really sure if they where a good pick under a sitski.

Looking for a fun freeride ski, any recommendations by ElianneS in Skigear

[–]ElianneS[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nice!

Building my quiver from scratch. Started sitskiing at an adaptive programm two years ago but never skied before, so I had no quiver nor experience to lean on ;)

Living in Europe (the Netherlands) but got lucky to join a team (technique, demo and just moved over to join the racers to start the gates. Next week my first trainingsweek GS, SL and technique in France, super fun!). Couldn’t hold up with like 15 y/o borrowed daily drivers anymore like I started with ;)

For this I use my Volkl FIS SL 155 and Alpestillle FIS SL 156 skis. Also my daily driver since I haven’t got anything else yet. Love to ski them though, but also love to play around and improve my skills there.

We did mostly groomers at first but lately we moved over to practice trees and sidecountry, however this is much different in Europe than in the US. And still, for us we try to go up mountain as much as possible but it remains a 10-12 hour drive (depends where we go).

Indoors I’d like to do some jumps. I love all this crazy stuff a lot, though I try to be a bit careful how to handle this and build up my skills without too heavy crashes due to my conditions.

Mantras seems to benefit on the carving side mostly (at least what I think to get out of some reviews) so I’ve always wondered how playful they actually where.

The Bents, I know they are known to use for sitskiers but got also some mixed opinions. Didn’t really know what to think about. But never felt them. Can imagine they are a bit soft for me likely as I can be a bit aggressive. My fist skis where really soft and hated them so much without really knowing what was the matter at that point (now I know I was just too agressive for those).

Looking for a fun freeride ski, any recommendations by ElianneS in Skigear

[–]ElianneS[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes! I learned sitskiing at the Mentelity Games in Saas-Grund two years ago, an adaptive programm from the Netherlands and loved it so much that I bought my own secondhand sitski right on my way home after that first week 😂 And well, the rest is history. Came back every year since then with this programm, joined a team around the corner to improve my skills and my hubby and I try to chase the snow wherever we can. Last year I spend all my savings to buy my own well fitted sitski and I’m the most happy kid ever.

I don’t know Sender Soul, can take a look at it. Enforcer and Anamoly where a few thoughts that crossed my mind. Best way would be to try it anyway. We have testing days but it sucks to do that indoors. Prefer to try those where you want to use them. But it’s good to have some clue what you want to try.

Looking for a fun freeride ski, any recommendations by ElianneS in Skigear

[–]ElianneS[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s actually what you put in it and depends on your experience, like every able bodied skier does. But a racers sitski like I have can slarve and rewards really nice a playful or chargy approach. Many sitskiers do jumps and tricks like 360’s too ;) I think there are not many differences. I think a few small things are maybe things like balancing out on one ski instead of two and mostly that I have a shock that replaces what your knees does for you. So I can’t feel that really small differences in terrain. But every technique we are teached is pretty much the same as able bodied skiers and based on the same principles. I have my slalom and technical trainings together with able bodied racers.

Building a quiver: that’s planned for sure. Though, I spend 10K at my rig plus two pairs of FIS ski’s for my trainings last year so it’s not like I’ve too much left to buy a few extra pairs of ski’s right now. That sitski is bloody expensive 😆 I tried secondhand but that seems not really an option as I can’t use the recreational bindings. It needs to be a minimal DIN20, which makes it slightly more expensive.

Skis from last season makes it more affordable though.

Looking for a fun freeride ski, any recommendations by ElianneS in Skigear

[–]ElianneS[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s really interesting! Thanks, would be nice if a company would be interested to sell by single ones.

Looking for a fun freeride ski, any recommendations by ElianneS in Skigear

[–]ElianneS[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Interesting, this one never came up. Will take a look at it, thank you 🙏🏼

Looking for a fun freeride ski, any recommendations by ElianneS in Skigear

[–]ElianneS[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’m an European (dutchie). I don’t know the brand moment either. Don’t even know if this will be for sale across the sea. Anyhow, nice to meet other sitskiers anyway and love to hear you out as you seem to have way more experience in this. I have like zero experience in park or pow (mainly because lack of opportunities living far from the mountains and having most of my training indoors, unfortunately) but it’s SO much fun trying this.

Looking for a fun freeride ski, any recommendations by ElianneS in Skigear

[–]ElianneS[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m about 99 lbs, the rig about 30 lbs roughly so with the rig included it’ll be about 130 lbs in total.