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So I am going to keep this fairly quick.
For the past 3 years my main "teaching" skis have been a pair of 174cm BLizzard X power 8.0 Tis. They have been a fantastic carver and actually decent ski in skied out bumps and woods, and even skied it in powder, the length and relative softness though always left me wanting more in Crud, skied out groomers and high speeds. I always felt hemmed in by my skis while skiing even the blues Mansfield, let alone nosedive and hayride.
So with no more Hook up on Blizzard........I found a pair of 177cm Monster 83s with 13 din binding for 250 dollars last spring. I had never skied on a head but everyone who has them seems to love them.
All I can say is WOW! along with crazy good edge grip, its the dampest most quiet ski I have ever skied. The ski is more comparable at speed on a groomer to my 195cm Superbro, than my 174cm Blizzard X power. It even out performs my master GS skis on less than ideal groomers, think eastern groomer at 3pm on saturday ie just utter garbage. Needless to say the 18m sidecut is straighter than 16m of the X powers but it feels even straighter than that. The Master GS ski is better on smooth firm hardpack or ice but typically there is sugar and/or granular chunks on groomers and the Monster's dampness make that work a ton better. Its is also a quite good bump ski as long as their isnt too much soft snow around. Its short comings are powder, choppy soft snow, and trail that are too flat to get it going. Also the factory base grind is quite slow in powder. MMSC will change that shortly.
Overall if you want a skis that will basically trench any packed snow you put in it way, they might be better skis, but I have yet to ski it. With that said, its not a great teaching ski, or exam ski due to how fast it has to go perform well. so my search continues for a damper more stable X power, while still being fun at slower speeds.....if that is possible.
Specs on the skis.
177cm
Tip 120mm
Mid 83mm
Tail 110mm
R = 18
say its has rocker but they its barely perceptible which is a good thing for my cause. They also tout the graphene in the ski, but my feeling is there is some UHF or rubber of some sort to give it other world dampness. It is the most damp ski I have ever skied(along with the other monsters I have tried since then) the next closest being my sickles followed by my Bonafides.
For the past 3 years my main "teaching" skis have been a pair of 174cm BLizzard X power 8.0 Tis. They have been a fantastic carver and actually decent ski in skied out bumps and woods, and even skied it in powder, the length and relative softness though always left me wanting more in Crud, skied out groomers and high speeds. I always felt hemmed in by my skis while skiing even the blues Mansfield, let alone nosedive and hayride.
So with no more Hook up on Blizzard........I found a pair of 177cm Monster 83s with 13 din binding for 250 dollars last spring. I had never skied on a head but everyone who has them seems to love them.
All I can say is WOW! along with crazy good edge grip, its the dampest most quiet ski I have ever skied. The ski is more comparable at speed on a groomer to my 195cm Superbro, than my 174cm Blizzard X power. It even out performs my master GS skis on less than ideal groomers, think eastern groomer at 3pm on saturday ie just utter garbage. Needless to say the 18m sidecut is straighter than 16m of the X powers but it feels even straighter than that. The Master GS ski is better on smooth firm hardpack or ice but typically there is sugar and/or granular chunks on groomers and the Monster's dampness make that work a ton better. Its is also a quite good bump ski as long as their isnt too much soft snow around. Its short comings are powder, choppy soft snow, and trail that are too flat to get it going. Also the factory base grind is quite slow in powder. MMSC will change that shortly.
Overall if you want a skis that will basically trench any packed snow you put in it way, they might be better skis, but I have yet to ski it. With that said, its not a great teaching ski, or exam ski due to how fast it has to go perform well. so my search continues for a damper more stable X power, while still being fun at slower speeds.....if that is possible.
Specs on the skis.
177cm
Tip 120mm
Mid 83mm
Tail 110mm
R = 18
say its has rocker but they its barely perceptible which is a good thing for my cause. They also tout the graphene in the ski, but my feeling is there is some UHF or rubber of some sort to give it other world dampness. It is the most damp ski I have ever skied(along with the other monsters I have tried since then) the next closest being my sickles followed by my Bonafides.