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Do you all think I should stick around the 169 cm length? (That's the size of the decade old park skis I'm using right now. I'm 5'9.4" and 165 lbs) And if I have the option, should I lean longer or shorter?
For your height & weight, yeah, my guess would be something in the low 170s for starters as an intermediate length, up through the middle to high 170s to cater to a more advanced/aggressive skier. A few cm over or under are pretty negligible, but sizing down substantially into the mid 160s will probably be really nice and nimble in the trees and bumps where the short turn radius comes in handy, but create a really unstable and squirrelly sensation at speed, especially on the groomers. Vice versa, too long will feel really smooth on open slopes making wide turns, but might feel harder to control in tight spaces or steep terrain when you want to make tight turns.
If, say, the Legend X feels difficult to control at 173, I'd look at trying a different ski that's softer before I'd try to fix it by dropping to 166.
If I'm really in between sizes on ski I like, I tend to go longer in hopes that I'll also get better as time goes on. And if that doesn't pan out, I can always resort to getting fatter - lol.