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Klaus
01-04-2006, 07:55 AM
Hi, I've been put on to the forum from a UK site and it looks like a great place! I've been ski-boarding on rentals for the last few seasons and I'm now tempted to invest in a set of boards for myself. I'm off to Whistler at Easter and will hopefully get to Europe before then.

I have no experience on anything but rentals and reading through a few posts here it seems like there's a wealth of options available to me. I think I'd prefer 'ski style' bindings, I prefer to know the boards can come off if they need to. So any pointers to a style or actual make and model of board would be gratefully received.

I've been skiing for about twenty years, but only once a year at the most, nothing very local to Manchester in the UK unfortunately. I'll mainly be doing groomed runs, with a little play in the park. I'm just short of six foot and about 180 pounds.

A chain here in the UK has released a range called Wed'ze this year which are short skis, 132cm, with a releasable binding. They can be seen in the store here - http://tinyurl.com/985lo or they have a site dedicated to them here - www.wedze.com. They're a very reasonable price and I'm gonna give them a try at my local snow dome later in the month. Has anyone heard of these or have any opinion?

TIA for any help :)

Klaus

TreeLover
01-04-2006, 09:57 AM
I think they're a bit long to be considered a skiboard...I know they're foam core...if you're looking for something longer than 100cm I'd say go for the Spruce 120s, reviews have been great on them.

Klaus
01-04-2006, 10:11 AM
Thanks for the reply TreeLover. Excuse my ignorance, but foam core = good or bad?

Klaus

TreeLover
01-04-2006, 10:15 AM
Bad...read the snowblades thread here for details...for all intensive purposes the skis you're talking about are like salomon snowblades.

http://www.sbol.ws/vbulletin/upload/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1218

Klaus
01-04-2006, 10:35 AM
Thanks for the pointer TreeLover, that's a great thread!

Klaus

TreeLover
01-04-2006, 10:44 AM
No prob!

fluxgame
01-04-2006, 11:07 AM
In addition to the foam cores, the profile on those look far more like skis than skiboards. They have about the same width dimensions as the Spruce Flyers (which already feel more ski-like from all reports), but with an extra 30+ cm in length. That combined with the setback of the bindings make them look much more like a kid's ski to me...

Mark
01-23-2006, 12:29 PM
foam coer