DS has grown out of his current skis. He is 12.5 years old and has recently shot up and is currently 5'1" but a bit of a lightweight, probably around 90 lb give or take a few lbs.
We ski a mixture of West Coast North America and New Zealand, most recently Breckenridge and A-Basin. He's a pretty solid skier for his age. He confidently and safely skis all over the mountain - favourite runs on the most recent trip were 13 Cornices and one of the Alley's (3rd I think) that we skied with @kimmyt . He's a really solid skier and prefers steep bumps and trees and powder. He would spend 90% of his time off-piste and a good proportion of our skiing is early season (January in the Northern Hemisphere and July in NZ).
He is currently on his second pair of volkl mini goats and they have been absolutely fantastic for him and have been a huge confidence booster and allowed him to develop his technique. He has grown out of the last pair and we will need to replace them. What else, other than the mantra jr (or a previous season gotama jr) should we look at? I have had a quick look around but many of the all mountain youth skis (blizzard cochise, atomic bent chetler, line sick day) seem to jump up quite a lot in width which I am not sure if I should worry about. Another option is the Fischer Ranger X youth.
Finally, he likes the wood core + sidewall construction of the mini goats and they have also proved to be very robust. Should we stick with a similar construction or will it not matter?
We ski a mixture of West Coast North America and New Zealand, most recently Breckenridge and A-Basin. He's a pretty solid skier for his age. He confidently and safely skis all over the mountain - favourite runs on the most recent trip were 13 Cornices and one of the Alley's (3rd I think) that we skied with @kimmyt . He's a really solid skier and prefers steep bumps and trees and powder. He would spend 90% of his time off-piste and a good proportion of our skiing is early season (January in the Northern Hemisphere and July in NZ).
He is currently on his second pair of volkl mini goats and they have been absolutely fantastic for him and have been a huge confidence booster and allowed him to develop his technique. He has grown out of the last pair and we will need to replace them. What else, other than the mantra jr (or a previous season gotama jr) should we look at? I have had a quick look around but many of the all mountain youth skis (blizzard cochise, atomic bent chetler, line sick day) seem to jump up quite a lot in width which I am not sure if I should worry about. Another option is the Fischer Ranger X youth.
Finally, he likes the wood core + sidewall construction of the mini goats and they have also proved to be very robust. Should we stick with a similar construction or will it not matter?