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When your park and pipe abuse starts to interfere with your daily life, it's time to admit you need the Fischer Addict Pro Alpine Ski. A true twintip design beefed up with two layers of titanal underfoot, this is a powerful, precision tool for dicing up the park and slaying the halfpipe all season long. The Addict Pro is strengthened for freestyle beatings by carbon fiber tip and tail reinforcements, which also lighten the ends for faster spins and effortless airtime, while rails, boxes and icy landings are no match for the 25-degree sidewall bevel that keeps impacts away from the topsheet. The sandwich sidewalls also transfer power efficiently and quickly from boot to edge, so this Fischer twintip can rip the whole mountain down if necessary.
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I have had one solid 6 hour day on these and they are definitely a solid ski. They are stiffer than other park skis that my friend's have (K2 Public Enemies), so doing butters aren't a walk in the park. After awhile I could notice they were softening up a bit, which was good.
I took a few runs trying them as racing skis, and boy can these carve! As soon as you drop onto the edge they just hook-up and carve very quick! I was surprised at how they carved, and some full-on racing skis I have tried out before never carved like these things!
Most of the day I practiced riding switch; carving and popping front and back. They are really stable landing switch. One time I landed switch right into a set of bumps and the skis soaked them right up, no wobbling and being off balance.
I never got a chance to try rails, but I'm sure these skis would do fine on them. Most of it is the rider.
One thing I really did not like about these skis is that the sides get banged up pretty easily. They are raised quite a bit, so when the other ski hits it the edge will dig in pretty good. I have one chunk half the size of my pinky nail missing, and a few slices.
PROS: - looks are killer (got a lot of compliments on them) - very stable - great for speed/carving - solid under your foot
CONS: - too stiff for playing around - sides of the skis get marked up easily
BOTTOM LINE: Although advertised as a park/pipe ski, I would consider these more towards all mountain/freeride riding. They are still awesome for jumps, but since they are stiffer, they aren't as playful as other park skis. Overall an awesome ski, but just a tad on the stiff side. 6'1" 165lbs 17 years old
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I would go with the Jester for your size then. It's going to be the lightest and best park specific binding you can find also it'll hold up extremely well.
The binding I personally use and recommend for park riding would be the Marker Jester or Griffon (Griffon if you're a lighter rider). They're extremely lightweight and allow for great flex on the ski. Also they extremely durable and bombproof, I have them on 3 different skis and they never let me down, even on my big-mountain ski.The PX-12 is a solid option as well, I'm just personally not a huge fan of Look/Rossi or Salomon bindings.I am a bigger fan of look(dynastar, rossi) bindings over the any other because I have never had a problem popping out, with your weight you need to get some look px-12's and crank them up to 10 and you will be set. I have my marker jesters at 11 on my scott P4's (107 underwaist) and have poped out a couple times and have been lucky that I havent gotten hurt.
This ski is a ton of fun all over the mountain! I was shocked how much fun I was having in the moguls and trees. But it is definitely a park ski, skis amazing switch. Solid as a rock stomping landings, swing weight is great, these are really easy to spin around. A little too stiff for buttering, but they do feel and ski like a GS ski at the high speeds, very stable and dampening. I was more than comfortable to cruise the race course with these. This ski is perfect for the Ice coast, but in the crud and powder is not so much fun (i attribute this to the center mount).
But overall I am very happy with this ski, if you have a big all mountain ski and want something to mess around with, like a nice stiff, damp ski this ski is for you.
If you going with a 172 say your 5'9 or 5'11 and center it go with a 180 because of what I heard with true center skis is they feel too short in the front if there your size my suggestion is center but go a little bigger.I think you guys are missing the point, this a symetrical ski it has to be center mounted, if you want it to ride longer you buy it longer and mount at center, if you change the mounting point it won,t ski as intended. YOU CAN'T go back from rec.
I would assume since they are symetrical that the mounting point is at center and genraly you can't change that without messing up how the ski is intended to work. but a +5 means 5cm foreward of factory rec. mounting line.
i just bought these, are they good for an intermidiate park skier, not quite a rat, and somone who likes to bomb all- mountain?and is center mount that bad for all mountain?
These skis are excellent for pretty much any intermediate to advanced park skier, thanks to the low swing weights and the stiff flex. The same low weight and stiff flex makes this a less forgiving all-mountain ski, so if you already like to bomb the all-mountain, then you should have to experience and technique to handle them. The center mount would handle alright, but maybe a +5 would be a better all-mountain with a park focus option.
Well they are symemetrical so you have to center mount them, if your talking about comparing these to a different park ski that is mounted 2cm back. A center mounted ski skis a lot better switch, and is more balanced when spinning off jumps, the downfall is that they don't carve as well on groomers or float as well in powder because of some tip dive, and some center mounted skis are not as stable at speed, they get squirrly.
Hey, what binding should I be using for this ski? I just got into park skiing and want to know if there are limitations in terms of width of brake and type of binding, etc. Thanks!
This is a symmetric twin, so you would have to mount them at dead center, a good binding would be something along the lines of the Marker Jester, since the weight is balanced between the toe and heel piece, it is lighter than most 16 din bindings, and it has a flatter stance, another one would be the Salomon sth16, this is a little heavier
I have had one solid 6 hour day on these and they are definitely a solid ski. They are stiffer than other park skis that my friend's have (K2 Public more...
This ski is a ton of fun all over the mountain! I was shocked how much fun I was having in the moguls and trees. But it is definitely a park ski, skis more...