Possible post hi-jack...
Phil I'm gonna challenge you about how well all of these Pugski thumbnail reviews provide guidance to the full range of skiers. I continue to feel that my stats have fallen between the cracks. Ok so maybe a 125lb, male 5'5" skier represents less than 1% of the market so why test skis with this niche in mind? Well because I'm selfish and think that I deserve to get a better idea from y'all about what might work for me or someone like me.
Your thumbnails do sometimes acknowledge that a ski might be good for a lighter skier, but these are skis which did not perform well for me at all (e.g., the Rossi Sky HD which, unless it's substantially improved from the totally unstable Sin 7, is just for low-speed and/or intermediate skiers; and the 90Eight would not flex into an arc for me - it needs either to be skied stupid short in the women's version or stupid fast only, or by "lightweight" you mean 140lbs+). I'm not convinced that a heavier male tester on a 180cm+/- ski can determine whether that ski (in a shorter length) might be appropriate for a lighter expert vs. a heavier intermediate skier - there is a difference: I regularly overpower or find unstable any ski that's meant more for an intermediate (i.e., one that's meant for a skidded turn and/or low speeds only).
I've also looked at the female tester thumbnails. However, I run into trouble there too since SkiNurse seems to prefer sub-160cm skis (which feel like WC SL ice skates to me, provide drastically reduced float, etc., but might allow me to ski the 90Eight like a hero not that's not any victory...and don't take any of this personally SkiNurse). SBrown probably comes the closest to providing some useful input for me but she still has 15lbs. & 4" on me (again - nothing negatively personal intended here Susan), so, and perhaps because her technique is also very powerful, she finds joy in many skis that I don't (though she does attempt to extrapolate her results to lighter/shorter folks but with mixed results for me).
Of course, regardless of the variety of skier types, sizes, genders, abilities...involved, no ski test will ever be perfect, but I'd still say that there's a glaring lack of a "lightweight male" (skiing shorter length skis) in your tester team
Phil I'm gonna challenge you about how well all of these Pugski thumbnail reviews provide guidance to the full range of skiers. I continue to feel that my stats have fallen between the cracks. Ok so maybe a 125lb, male 5'5" skier represents less than 1% of the market so why test skis with this niche in mind? Well because I'm selfish and think that I deserve to get a better idea from y'all about what might work for me or someone like me.
Your thumbnails do sometimes acknowledge that a ski might be good for a lighter skier, but these are skis which did not perform well for me at all (e.g., the Rossi Sky HD which, unless it's substantially improved from the totally unstable Sin 7, is just for low-speed and/or intermediate skiers; and the 90Eight would not flex into an arc for me - it needs either to be skied stupid short in the women's version or stupid fast only, or by "lightweight" you mean 140lbs+). I'm not convinced that a heavier male tester on a 180cm+/- ski can determine whether that ski (in a shorter length) might be appropriate for a lighter expert vs. a heavier intermediate skier - there is a difference: I regularly overpower or find unstable any ski that's meant more for an intermediate (i.e., one that's meant for a skidded turn and/or low speeds only).
I've also looked at the female tester thumbnails. However, I run into trouble there too since SkiNurse seems to prefer sub-160cm skis (which feel like WC SL ice skates to me, provide drastically reduced float, etc., but might allow me to ski the 90Eight like a hero not that's not any victory...and don't take any of this personally SkiNurse). SBrown probably comes the closest to providing some useful input for me but she still has 15lbs. & 4" on me (again - nothing negatively personal intended here Susan), so, and perhaps because her technique is also very powerful, she finds joy in many skis that I don't (though she does attempt to extrapolate her results to lighter/shorter folks but with mixed results for me).
Of course, regardless of the variety of skier types, sizes, genders, abilities...involved, no ski test will ever be perfect, but I'd still say that there's a glaring lack of a "lightweight male" (skiing shorter length skis) in your tester team
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you have SklDiva, and us 
