Word's in. They're very good.
After skiing them for Pugski testing last week, I can concur. They are FANTASTIC. I personally found them to be VERY playful, but when I was able to open them up, yowza! Fun without the serious side of say, my Volkls.
Word's in. They're very good.
After skiing them for Pugski testing last week, I can concur. They are FANTASTIC. I personally found them to be VERY playful, but when I was able to open them up, yowza! Fun without the serious side of say, my Volkls.
The Nordica Rep had a few Protos to distribute in the region for influential women in the area.Was that at Alpine Meadows? A friend of mine sent me a photo of a pair of the protos at the base of Alpine a few weeks back. I thought it must have been Tricia but then realised she was at the gathering that week,
Just starting to wax skis and get ready down here.
I own both, so I'll try to answer. The Secret is quite a bit less forgiving. Both are really fun in soft snow and powder. The SA88 has fantastic grip on hard snow that rivals the Secret, but it has a more playful feel to it. I can relax on the SA, I cannot relax on the Secret. If you are a Volkl lover, then you'll probably love the Secret. But, you'll probably also love the SA88 because it has the stability of the Volkl, with added ease and playfulness that the Volkl lacks.How would you compare these to the Secret? I ski mainly East Coast and was considering the Secret until I read about the SA88s.
I was able to get on these during the May gathering in Colorado. What a great ski! Did anything I wanted: steep, groomed, bumps, trees and several inches of fresh.
I tried these out at mammoth end of May/beginning of June. They were great in spring conditions. And I took them all over the mountain for multiple days. They were my go to ski that weekend with the choice of liberty vmt82(second choice), dps 79 trainer and head wild joy ( way too light for me)
Santa Ana 88. 165
5’2” 125lbs
Its been a while since I bumped this thread, while there is some discussion going on over in the @SkiEssentials review of the Santa Ana 88.
Since March, I have gotten a bunch of days on this as well as a few other 88's and would put this one in the top two of my favorite 88 waisted skis, each for slightly different reasons. The Santa Ana 88 just loves moguls, carves nice on groomers, charges steeps and floats darn well when there's a little spring crud or powder. Look for a cage match soon.
Another data point: my wife (5'11) demoed the Enforcer 88 (172s) recently and liked them, quite a lot in fact. Unfortunately they didn't have the Santa Ana in her length. I'd be curious to hear from anyone who has skied both the Santa Ana 88 and Enforcer 88.
That's awesome! They will do everything you say above that you are looking for them to do. Report back after you ski them.Just ordered the 2020 Santa Ana @165cm for $509.99 total, no tax and free shipping included.
I'd been commenting over the last couple years on buying an all mountain women's midfat that has been the hole in my 3 ski quiver for several years now and that has kept me from much interest in skiing all mountain terrain.
My 2012 Rossy S7 @173cm at 110mm at the boot, are superb bouncy soft fresh powder skis, but not fun in junk or older metamorphosized untracked snow, just ok on groomers, and way too heavy for backcountry skinning.
My short Scott The Ski @155cm at 89mm at the boot are excellent in up to footish depth powder, and intended for backcountry powder skinning because they are super light. They are just ok in bumps and can be fun on groomed.
Most ski days am skiing bumps with my 2011 Twisters @168cm at 65mm at boot and they are also much short turn fun on groomed and skier packed powder. But they are a poor tool in fresh snow more than a few inches deep and get jacked around in any junk snow.
I had not seriously expected to buy any skis this season despite an interest, much less during this holiday period. When Wendy opened her thread to sell her Hart F17 mogul skis, I added a less than serious comment of interest that provoked revisiting my midfat dilemma spending a few hours on the web this morning reviewing through all the current midfats of interest. Many ski models are reviewed inconsistently across the various web sites or between different reviewers even on the same site, so one needs to be careful believing single reviewer comments and instead look through as many online reviews as one might find.
Two reasons that occurs is snow conditions during testing may be limited and lighter testers may be on longer than optimal length, available demo skis. As a small male of 135#, I tend to trust what women reviewers have to say more than men. So thank you Tricia and Amy. The 2020 SA's are priced at $599.99 everywhere on the web. However some online retail shops are of course offering special holiday discounts as well as free shipping. So after much poking about found one with a 15% discount over these last few days before Christmas. I do still need to select and buy (cheap) bindings and get them mounted so will do that locally after they arrive next year.
I was reading your signature and thinking, Hmmmm, his stats are about the same as mine. I bet we could ski similar skis.Just ordered the 2020 Santa Ana @165cm for $509.99 total, no tax and free shipping included.
I'd been commenting over the last couple years on buying an all mountain women's midfat that has been the hole in my 3 ski quiver for several years now and that has kept me from much interest in skiing all mountain terrain.
My 2012 Rossy S7 @173cm at 110mm at the boot, are superb bouncy soft fresh powder skis, but not fun in junk or older metamorphosized untracked snow, just ok on groomers, and way too heavy for backcountry skinning.
My short Scott The Ski @155cm at 89mm at the boot are excellent in up to footish depth powder, and intended for backcountry powder skinning because they are super light. They are just ok in bumps and can be fun on groomed.
Most ski days am skiing bumps with my 2011 Twisters @168cm at 65mm at boot and they are also much short turn fun on groomed and skier packed powder. But they are a poor tool in fresh snow more than a few inches deep and get jacked around in any junk snow.
I had not seriously expected to buy any skis this season despite an interest, much less during this holiday period. When Wendy opened her thread to sell her Hart F17 mogul skis, I added a less than serious comment of interest that provoked revisiting my midfat dilemma spending a few hours on the web this morning reviewing through all the current midfats of interest. Many ski models are reviewed inconsistently across the various web sites or between different reviewers even on the same site, so one needs to be careful believing single reviewer comments and instead look through as many online reviews as one might find.
Two reasons that occurs is snow conditions during testing may be limited and lighter testers may be on longer than optimal length, available demo skis. As a small male of 135#, I tend to trust what women reviewers have to say more than men. So thank you Tricia and Amy. The 2020 SA's are priced at $599.99 everywhere on the web. However some online retail shops are of course offering special holiday discounts as well as free shipping. So after much poking about found one with a 15% discount over these last few days before Christmas. I do still need to select and buy (cheap) bindings and get them mounted so will do that locally after they arrive next year.
First: I'm in a 23.5. I believe you're in a bit bigger size boot, more like Phil's size. He's in a 295mm shell. I'm in a 276.On an old thread where you were testing newer model Lange RS110SC boots, we also found out besides similar weight/height our boot lengths are close enough around 300mm that we could likely swap out our skis on slope as is.
As for binding advice, thanks again Tricia, I value your experienced knowledgeable inputs. Outside of safety, I've never been aware of reasons for more expensive bindings for the kind of rec skiing I do, and don't have experience on what benefits such might offer. Amazingly, apparently the shop has already shipped the skis overnight and are on some upgraded expedited UPS shipping mode. So may get them before next year and if so, will be wise to have the bindings mounted during the upcoming value pass black out period.
I was thinking of the Look NX 11's or Tyrolia RX12 either about $130. Over decades I've usually bought such low end model bindings for my skis and never had issues of not releasing when they needed to or pre-release. Part of that is due to lower forces as I'm light weight, don't tend to ski fast with strong forces, don't do more than small airs, and rarely fall, much less enough to pop out of bindings. When I do fall so, it seems to be on deep fresh snow days where skis end up buried some where at the end of my powder cords.