I was never a big fan of wider skis with lots of side cut. I remembering demoing the Experience 88 when it first came out and I hated it; it felt like a one trick pony.
Two years ago I bought a pair of Z90’s used here on Pugski. When this ski first came out, I was skeptical due to its side cut, but so many people raved about it. So I took a chance. This was a ski that felt amazing on the first turn because it is so well balanced.
You know how there’s a few ski days that you look back on and say, gosh, that was a special day? The first time I took the Z90 out in a foot of PA cruddy snow was one of those days. Yep, in the lowly little Poconos, not the West, I had a banner day. It was that ski. It just did everything so well, was so easy and fun. I admittedly am not a great shitty snow skier, but I felt like I was skiing on autopilot on the Z90 in the stuff. I’ve never felt super locked into a carve like I did on the old Experience 88....I can release the Z90 whenever I need.
So typically I’d say, yeah, a ski with a carving sidecut should be narrower, but this ski is indeed special. It is, like Phil said, a great choice to take on a trip when you don’t know what conditions you’ll get. I failed to bring it on my last ski trip, to Winter Park last February, and I was kicking myself the whole time I was there.
Two years ago I bought a pair of Z90’s used here on Pugski. When this ski first came out, I was skeptical due to its side cut, but so many people raved about it. So I took a chance. This was a ski that felt amazing on the first turn because it is so well balanced.
You know how there’s a few ski days that you look back on and say, gosh, that was a special day? The first time I took the Z90 out in a foot of PA cruddy snow was one of those days. Yep, in the lowly little Poconos, not the West, I had a banner day. It was that ski. It just did everything so well, was so easy and fun. I admittedly am not a great shitty snow skier, but I felt like I was skiing on autopilot on the Z90 in the stuff. I’ve never felt super locked into a carve like I did on the old Experience 88....I can release the Z90 whenever I need.
So typically I’d say, yeah, a ski with a carving sidecut should be narrower, but this ski is indeed special. It is, like Phil said, a great choice to take on a trip when you don’t know what conditions you’ll get. I failed to bring it on my last ski trip, to Winter Park last February, and I was kicking myself the whole time I was there.