Help Choosing Twin Tips Please

How the ski will turn depends on the ski sidecut, not the length. My 175 JJ has 12m radius turn and literally turn themselves, but my other shorter ski is more demanding in this respect as its sidecut is 20m. So to make it turn tighter I need to work harder.
You should be fine on 178 - it's not that the ski will be towering over you or that it's a superstiff charger. It's only about 5cm longer than your regular ski and twin-tip will shorten the contact area some, so essentially length-wise they will feel very similar.

Dude seriously check out the Salomon suspects 171 boot centre or 176 true centre, Line afterbang 176, Line Chronic 173 or Volkl wall 177 true centre if your still looking for a new setup.

Best idea is to get along to your local snow dome or hill and demo a set to get a feel, each and every ski skis differently.

Saloman suspect then worth a punt?
Any pros and cons over the Armada del Reys ?

verbier_ski_bum wrote:How the ski will turn depends on the ski sidecut, not the length.

Not on a longer version of the same ski, thats the point I was trying to make. I've got 166's and could have gone 176s on the same ski, but found them too difficult to navigate all round. Nothing to do with the sidecut, although your point is post on that a ski with a shorter sidecut will obviously not need to be worked as hard in the turn.

I think my neo's are something like 12m radius, which is one of the reasons I got them for piste skiing.

Suspect is a horribly soft, 100% park orientated ski which is fun in the park but useless anywhere else.

Infact all the skis mentioned by jogs are park skis. Not that this is a bad thing, just to warn you. Although i presume the el ray is decent in the park it is excellent on piste too and will be wide enough to venture into light off piste.

If you do want to ski anywhere else than the park do not centre mount your skis-having the extra tail takes some getting used too

anygasman wrote:Saloman suspect then worth a punt?
Any pros and cons over the Armada del Reys ?

No. You don't want a park-specific ski if you want to be able to ski all mountain without hating it.