absummit46
08-10-2011, 10:56 PM
Hey everybody.
I am looking for opinions about which skiboards my Grandma should buy. She is 70 years old but really active for her age and in pretty much perfect health. She's about 5'6" tall. We normally ski at Arapahoe Basin in Colorado and she feels comfortable skiing the blues and some mild moguls, but isn't looking to do much beyond that and certainly isn't going in the terrain park. She normally skis on 150s, but last year she tried my old Salomon snowblades (I now ski on BWP skiboards and couldn't be happier by the way) and she liked it quite a lot. She didn't mind working the nonreleasable bindings on the snowblades, but she thinks she would like releasable bindings just for the safety factor because she is older and maybe doesn't have as strong legs as someone younger. She was looking at getting the Rumspringa because they have less width to them, but I don't know if those would be right for her because the main complaint she had about the snowblades was that they have some chatter to them and I found that the chatter was completely gone with my BWPs when I switched to them. I very much appreciate any thoughts y'all have about what would be best for her and thank you in advance for your comments.
I am looking for opinions about which skiboards my Grandma should buy. She is 70 years old but really active for her age and in pretty much perfect health. She's about 5'6" tall. We normally ski at Arapahoe Basin in Colorado and she feels comfortable skiing the blues and some mild moguls, but isn't looking to do much beyond that and certainly isn't going in the terrain park. She normally skis on 150s, but last year she tried my old Salomon snowblades (I now ski on BWP skiboards and couldn't be happier by the way) and she liked it quite a lot. She didn't mind working the nonreleasable bindings on the snowblades, but she thinks she would like releasable bindings just for the safety factor because she is older and maybe doesn't have as strong legs as someone younger. She was looking at getting the Rumspringa because they have less width to them, but I don't know if those would be right for her because the main complaint she had about the snowblades was that they have some chatter to them and I found that the chatter was completely gone with my BWPs when I switched to them. I very much appreciate any thoughts y'all have about what would be best for her and thank you in advance for your comments.