For lighter weight skiers, there are other skis that work for charging that might not work for bigger guys, dunno.
Last season I found that the 194 Salomon Blank 112 is such a ski, for me:
very stable charging, just tears up uneven variable and busts crud; and yet is able to be thrown sideways to scrub speed,
and do similar more playful things, that make it a real option for a lot of good skiers. Fun and versatile.
Anybody out there tried these things also?
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I agree about the two charger skis
@AngryAnalyst mentioned as being in a whole different class from the other skis being mentioned.
But I'd like to add that the Sender Squad may well be mostly an exception to his rule that a true charger is mostly less versatile and maneuverable
in narrow spaces (as is the K2 Pettitor, mostly).
I do really wish someone here had taken me up on finding out what the Sender Squad can do. I'd like to hear about it.
(I demoed it but did not think to shift it forward.)
The Black Ops Sender Squad 112 was meant to also be more versatile than one might guess,
by way of shifting its mount point forward for different uses.
As I've posted before, on a Blistergear podcast, when the Sender Squad first came out,
the top Rossi hard goods designer/manager (a big guy) talked about how
if you move that ski forward, even as a bigger guy, it becomes "turny."
It transforms.
There are other skis that do this, but not many, in my experience.
The only two others I know of, as I've also posted before, are the Rossi Black Ops 118 (for smaller skiers),
and the old K2 Pettitor, whose longer length 190 version was designed to fit the big mountain skiing of Seth Morrison,
a mid-weight elite skier.
Taking advantage of moving the dang things forward, however (as I'd been told to try by K2 reps),
I found this ski becomes easy for a lot of folks to handle, very playful and forgiving. But still bombproof, any speed.
Seth told a friend of mine, going up on the lift, that he shifted that and another K2 ski from the rec. mount point, +4.5 cm. forward.
(I found +3 cm to +4 cm good for me.)
(Man, he was incredible to watch at Loveland Basin, here in Colorado.
He took incredible lines on narrow steeps and steep, narrow mogul fields, every run down that mountain - on that and similar skis. )
Thinking of the BO Sender Squad for myself, as an older guy, it's probably not a good idea for me, to go for an almost SG ski
that at its rec. mount point skis in its easy comfort zone some 20 mph faster
than the comfortable zone of any other recreational ski around (except the M Pro 105, maybe).
I'd do this in the hope that as it gets "turny" moved more forward, it may - probably - become also more versatile
in terms of speed and maneuverability.
But I really am trying to keep it down to GS speeds, at this point. That's fast enough for an old guy.