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I just bought the 2018 Blizzard Brahma 187cm w/o bindings or a plate (just clean skis).
I'm 27 yo, aprox. 105kgs, and I'm quite an aggressive skier who loves clean, long GS turns. I'll be using the skis on piste only, during bad conditions days (soft/chopped/unmodified/destroyed snow on piste), so no freeride, no really deep powder snow and no really big bumps (or at least not intentionally)...
I bought those skis to be able to go as much "GS" as possible in bad conditions on piste. And I started wandering about putting the Marker World Cup Piston Plate on them to improve stiffness, edge grip and stability etc. even further.
Would the Marker Plate improve the ski's ability to smash trough soft / destroyed / snow covered piste in any way? Would the skis be able to do to even more-like "GS turns" ins such conditions?
The thing is, I don't need to improve those skis' GS turns capability on firm groomers or ice... for that I have race/sport skis. So I would consider putting the plate on the Brahma only if it adds some extra GS capability in conditions unsuitable for true GS skis. I'm hoping it makes sense to you...
I know those skis are very stiff even w/o any plate, especially in this length, but I'm very good skier (love fast and powerful GS carving) and not afraid of making the ski more stiff (should I?) ... but what I'm afraid of is, that it might ruin some of the ski's key attributes, because I assume it is not designed for such plates.
So... Could there be any downsides of it in terms of ski's performance? Or it can only add Pros?
And... is it even possible to mount AllMountain Marker bindings on that plate?
Is there a point of having AllMountain/Freeride bindings on those skis given the fact I want them for piste only?
I'm 27 yo, aprox. 105kgs, and I'm quite an aggressive skier who loves clean, long GS turns. I'll be using the skis on piste only, during bad conditions days (soft/chopped/unmodified/destroyed snow on piste), so no freeride, no really deep powder snow and no really big bumps (or at least not intentionally)...
I bought those skis to be able to go as much "GS" as possible in bad conditions on piste. And I started wandering about putting the Marker World Cup Piston Plate on them to improve stiffness, edge grip and stability etc. even further.
Would the Marker Plate improve the ski's ability to smash trough soft / destroyed / snow covered piste in any way? Would the skis be able to do to even more-like "GS turns" ins such conditions?
The thing is, I don't need to improve those skis' GS turns capability on firm groomers or ice... for that I have race/sport skis. So I would consider putting the plate on the Brahma only if it adds some extra GS capability in conditions unsuitable for true GS skis. I'm hoping it makes sense to you...
I know those skis are very stiff even w/o any plate, especially in this length, but I'm very good skier (love fast and powerful GS carving) and not afraid of making the ski more stiff (should I?) ... but what I'm afraid of is, that it might ruin some of the ski's key attributes, because I assume it is not designed for such plates.
So... Could there be any downsides of it in terms of ski's performance? Or it can only add Pros?
And... is it even possible to mount AllMountain Marker bindings on that plate?
Is there a point of having AllMountain/Freeride bindings on those skis given the fact I want them for piste only?
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