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These are 188 cm Megawatts with Hammerhead binders. Boots are Garmont Geneses.
The Megawatt is 155-125-130 and look like propellers off of some WW11 fighter plane. These puppy's are SO FAT that if Greenpeace found them on the beach they would tie a rope to them and drag them out to sea. They have huge rockered tips that curl back so far that you are actually skiing a lot less of the ski than you see. I talked with a number of folks that skied them and guys like Noah Howell and Tyler Merrit all say that they will ski small. Well, they were right. I took these in narrow woods up at Jay and flew through spots I would normally have been a bit tentative in. Do they float...? Uh, duh. And with the rockered tip I had no worries of a rear tip diving (not that the snow was deep enough for that but when it is deep... I ain't gonna worry). I'm thinking of the times I got to a slope early looking for first turns and it was a heavy two feet of slop that looked a lot nicer than it skied. The first few telemark turns said "rear ski tip dive" and I reluctantly ended up paralleling. I think these MW's will tele in anything.
As far as hard pack... I say they are boats out of water. They remind me of putting on all the scuba gear and flopping around on land until you get in the water and turn graceful. On hard pack these guys are clunky. They will turn but I don't have much fun doing it. Put them in pow however and they turn graceful. A few younger skiers (one a racer) actually loved the MW's on hard pack. They said they love getting them up on edge and carving big turns. Not me baby.
I had Voile Insanes before these and wish I could have kept them (had to sell them to finance the new boards). But all in all it was a good trade. The Voiles were lighter on the uphill and fast turning and floaty in the down but they still fell short when the snow got heavy and deep. The MW's with skins attached climb like a bag of bricks but when you get to the down it all seems worth it. |
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| Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 9:44 pm |
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| so biff... how fat ARE those skis? |
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| Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 10:05 pm |
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| admin wrote: | | so biff... how fat ARE those skis? |
Well... they are SO FAT that they show up on radar.
They are so fat that they have their own area code.
They are so fat that if you put them on a scale it says "To be continued".
They are so fat that people jog around them for exercise.
They are so fat that they have smaller skis orbiting around them.
They are so fat that when God said "Let there be light" He had to ask them to move.
They are so fat that if you left them on the beach people would run around them and yell "Free Willy".
THAT'S how fat they are. |
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| Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 3:27 pm |
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A boy and his skis. |
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| Posted: Sun Dec 20, 2009 7:15 pm |
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| Yad wrote: |
A boy and his skis. |
Yad--linky brokey. |
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| Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 5:56 pm |
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| Had a chance to ski and climb in about a foot and a half of setting up powder. They just ski and turn through everything! I almost get too fearless. As far as skinning up... ouch. In the heavier snow it gets on top of the ski and lifting that ski up is like lifting a sack of bricks. They really are like whales.. orcas perhaps. Out of "water", (climbing) they are clumsy and heavy. But once you take the skins off and start down it's like they have been tossed in the water and become graceful and svelte. |
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| Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 3:31 pm |
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| After a season on them I'm thinking of "downgrading" to the Justice. I love the rockered aspect but need a smaller lighter ski. |
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