On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:04:43 +0000, Pete Fisher
wrote:

My nephew is a 'boarder'. To my amazement he also informs me that my
Dynastar 185s are ridiculously, unfashionably long.

Last year, because I had the carrying capacity, I took my old 195
Kästles with me, just to see how they compared. I took them on kind of
a farewell run.

It was odd, apparently being the only person in the entire resort
wearing such long skis.

Skis have come on a bit: the old Kästles initially didn't feel that
different, that is, they'd turn when asked without undue pressure.

Then I started noticing the diferences: if I tried to carve, despite
exaggerating the movement, they just wouldn't; the lines were there
but always scrubbed a bit.

Later, as I relaxed and forgot what I was wearing, once or twice I
tried to steer the skis around at low speed, as is my habit, by sort
of rolling the outside knee inwards and slightly stepping the inside
ski into the turn. Here I found that I now had a rapidly diverging
pair of skis...

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-Pip