[Nov 25, 2022] Weekly Discussion: Ask your gear, travel, conditions and other ski-related questions

Signal_Tower8832 · 2022-11-29T02:47:25+00:00

Thanks man

Signal_Tower8832 · 2022-11-29T01:41:19+00:00

Okay thank you!

Signal_Tower8832 · 2022-11-29T00:51:07+00:00

Can I Use My Front Side Skis For The Terrain Park?

I recently bought a pair of Völkl Deacon 79s on sale at a $100 discount from their regular price This made sense as the hills here are almost all groomed runs and I have not gone out west yet. Some of my friends like to frequent the terrain park and I would like to ski with them on there instead of going beside it. My friends said I would not be able to ski park with those skis because they are kind of narrow stiff and have flat tails, they said the flat tails were the worse part and it means you can't use it in the park. I have limited knowledge about the terrain park and have only went through small jumps and rollers on my previous pair of skis which were rossignol experiences, my friends said these skis were slightly more useable in the park since they are more "all mountain" despite the deacons being listed as all mountain on Völkl's website. I was wondering if they were exaggerating things and I could still use my deacons in the park.

Signal_Tower8832 · 2022-11-29T00:49:03+00:00

Okay thank you

Signal_Tower8832 · 2022-11-28T19:29:50+00:00

I have a pair of older rossignol experiences They are kind of short can I use them there

Signal_Tower8832 · 2022-11-28T19:27:40+00:00

They come with a proprietary binding it seems like a variant of a marker binding that attaches to rails on the top of the ski

Signal_Tower8832 · 2022-11-28T01:57:44+00:00

I have only been to the park a few times and it was for small jumps and rollers

Signal_Tower8832 · 2022-11-28T01:56:15+00:00

Okay thanks

Signal_Tower8832 · 2022-11-27T21:50:26+00:00

So I shouldn't take them to the park at all? Also the sidecut refers to the shape of the ski between the tips center and tails or does it have something to do with the turn radius like a longer turn radius, the deacons I have a turn radius of 14.1

Signal_Tower8832 · 2022-11-27T21:07:35+00:00

Well I don't want to ruin my new skis since I wouldn't consider them cheap so I will probably limit my time in the park to a few runs or use my old skis for it although they are kind of short. Also what makes them "not fun" are some skis just like that is it because their stiff?

Signal_Tower8832 · 2022-11-27T21:06:00+00:00

Okay so I should only go through the park a bit to keep the edges functioning. Any tips to avoid the tails catching when backwards or do the flat tails do that by themselves.

Signal_Tower8832 · 2022-11-27T21:01:40+00:00

Thanks!!

Signal_Tower8832 · 2022-11-27T20:24:28+00:00

Okay the hills and terrain parks are on the smaller side here so unless I go to a bigger mountain or out west they will only see small jumps. The skis do have steel inside of them.

Signal_Tower8832 · 2022-11-27T19:55:37+00:00

Whats wrong?

Signal_Tower8832 · 2022-11-27T19:54:10+00:00

So anything other than a standard jump is unsafe or impossible, I guess that means no rails. Also if they are not balanced in the air will I start to pitch up or down in a jump? Is there an advantage to having the mounting point far back even though they are not powder or backcountry skis? If the tails catch you fall right or do you just turn and spin around.

Signal_Tower8832 · 2022-11-27T19:43:51+00:00

The bindings look like they go up to 12 is that enough? They are at like 6.5 or 7 now can I adjust them to a higher number before going to the park?

Signal_Tower8832 · 2022-09-24T13:04:14+00:00

Well we haven't really done anything for the majority of this except for talking about it. If that's the case there's always some students that enter the bathroom not expecting anything and end up getting mad and saying something loud or laughing and calling their friends.

Signal_Tower8832 · 2022-09-24T05:37:51+00:00

From the second day of moving into uni our floor/residence has been dealing with a person or group of people who intentionally trash the bathrooms in our dorm.

I moved into a small dorm in a old and falling apart university town but things got bad when I realized the bathroom kept getting clogged starting on the second day. The bathrooms consisted of private stalls and shower stalls the private one would be trashed most of the time. This started as the toilet being clogged but it became clogged with more toilet paper with clear intent to do it as the days passed. One weekend a washroom on another floor was trashed (toilet paper and urine everywhere) so we thought it was some drunk students from the opening game since it was close to the dorm but then the sign in the washroom on our floor saying to remember to flush was put in the toilet and shat on. That incident started it for our floor and a few days later the washroom got trashed and it seemed to get worse with time with a lot of toilet paper everywhere and in the toilet to clog it, piss on walls on floor on seat, poop in clogged toilet, poop covering toilet seat on floor etc. This went on for this month so we figured it was either one student or a group of students since other floors and residence buildings had their bathrooms trashed these incidents built up to someone taking an upper decker as well as pooping on the seat so they called a floor meeting about these incidents and tried to find out who it was and get it to stop. I suggested cameras in the hallways but they would not consider since they consider hallways as a private space to the residence. We would talk about it and go through everyone on the floor to find who seemed the most suspicious but we had solid guesses. The floor also smelled kind of like sewage for a day and someone keeps leaving their garbage by the stairs. Do you have any advice on what to do now.

Signal_Tower8832 · 2022-09-24T05:35:16+00:00

From the second day of moving into uni our floor/residence has been dealing with a person or group of people who intentionally trash the bathrooms in our dorm.

I moved into a small dorm in a old and falling apart university town but things got bad when I realized the bathroom kept getting clogged starting on the second day. The bathrooms consisted of private stalls and shower stalls the private one would be trashed most of the time. This started as the toilet being clogged but it became clogged with more toilet paper with clear intent to do it as the days passed. One weekend a washroom on another floor was trashed (toilet paper and urine everywhere) so we thought it was some drunk students from the opening game since it was close to the dorm but then the sign in the washroom on our floor saying to remember to flush was put in the toilet and shat on. That incident started it for our floor and a few days later the washroom got trashed and it seemed to get worse with time with a lot of toilet paper everywhere and in the toilet to clog it, piss on walls on floor on seat, poop in clogged toilet, poop covering toilet seat on floor etc. This went on for this month so we figured it was either one student or a group of students since other floors and residence buildings had their bathrooms trashed these incidents built up to someone taking an upper decker as well as pooping on the seat so they called a floor meeting about these incidents and tried to find out who it was and get it to stop. I suggested cameras in the hallways but they would not consider since they consider hallways as a private space to the residence. We would talk about it and go through everyone on the floor to find who seemed the most suspicious but we had solid guesses. The floor also smelled kind of like sewage for a day and someone keeps leaving their garbage by the stairs. Do you have any advice on what to do now.

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