J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by ellistine

Pavelski wrote:It is a keeper!

So far I've found a Salomon corporate timeline with a picture of them and even seen some new limited edition carvers for sale all painted up in the S9000 orange colour scheme! I'm quite chuffed with them. The skis I have are the P7 3S versions with the pixy ear tips - slalom version apparently and still over 200cms!!!!

The timeline also mentions the Salomon Prolink skis with external shock absorbtion - got some of those too!

Not bad for £15 including a third pair of not soo famous fischers.

Any idea what bindings would have been on the S9000s? It would be quite nice to try get a pair for them.

Most boots have liners that when heated become 'soft' which enables them to mold to your feet. When they cool this 'mold' is maintained. This is usually performed in the shop when you buy them.

Looking at the Salomon website, I'm not entirely sure if the lining on the X-Wave 6 is thermo moldable or not. The X-Wave 7 mentions a thermo moldable tongue (MY CF Comfort) but X-Wave 6 just says 'Autofit' whatever that is!

Pavel wrote:The also changed the way skis are made since it was the first "monocoque" ski.

OK, so what was pre-monocoque?

As a member of the 'carver only' generation, I'm half tempted to clean them up and take them on Holiday one year just to see what it's like to ski with such long skis - but then again, I'd need a longer ski bag too.

Perhaps it's safer to stick with my carvers

I've just aquired three pairs of very elderly and very long skis. One pair is a set of Salomon S9000 circa 1990. I've no idea what the base is made of but it don't look like ptex! It's got coloured speckles in it (a very fetching shade of mint green I might add).

I was going to practice a spot of waxing on some of these skis but I'm now concerned at the amount of damage these skis look like they are capable of doing to my waxing iron :wink:

Is that the 'skiers edge' machine? How much are they? I've seen them advertised but never priced.

Just been to Filarinskis and came away with a pair of Atomix X90's with 30% off. Top boot fitter. Spent 2.5 hours with us trying lots of boots and after choosing one, stretched it in various places to relieve obvious pressure points. We too are off to the dry slope to work out any other pressure points which he's happy to then sort out. Turned out the girlfriends last boots were 2 sizes too big!

As well as the usual footbed moulders they also have the boot shell stretching equipment, foot scanners and digital binding release testing equipment (very impressive bit of kit!).

They also have a little cafe!

Would throughly recommend.

ise wrote: ellistine mentioned concentrated on this as much as anything else and probably tried awareness of where the arms/hands were as instrumental in moving the upper body forward.

You're probably right, although none of this was specifically mentioned. Infact not a lot was mentioned! Most of the gain was in aggression and commitment through just trying to keep up with the bloke. I found myself a lot further forward, a lot more dynamic and using the edged to turn rather than forcing a skid. A lot less effort!