All day, everyday!

By Elias Littenberg April 29, 2010

These are fast becoming my favorite skis and I find myself reaching for them more often than not on the way to the hill. I'm 5'9", 140lbs and ski at Snowbird ~45x per year. At first, I was a little unsure if I'd be able to handle a ski of this size with a wood+metal construction. Well the rocker helps a lot but these are nowhere near as stiff as I had expected. Despite the similar sounding construction, the Dynastar Pro XXL feels way more stiff than the Super7. I'd say these are more bouncy than anything. You can porpoise in pow like an 80s skier or really fire down slopes as the titanal acts kind of like mountain bike suspension; smoothing out the ride for you so you can concentrate on going faster/bigger. So pow and chop are are awesome, but honestly I haven't had a bad experience on any snow with these. Ice can be tough on a fat ski, sure, but the Super7 has a plenty-short turn radius so it's manageable. Thanks again to the rocker profile, I can easily turn these in trees, bumps, and narrow chutes. Dirty corn is a delight. Spring laps around the White Pine drainage have been super fun. The only thing I don't like doing on the Super7 is skiing switch. The sidecut feels like it wants to swing a little tighter going backwards and the extra wide tips can end up standing on each other. That's okay though, for the more freestylie days I'll grab a true rockered twin quiver ski. To close I'd like to say if you're on the fence trying to decide between the 188cm or the 195cm Super, go big. It's much easier to ski than it may look while leaning against the wall by your door and the added length, width, and metal make it Cadillac in virtually any kind of snow and terrain.

View Details: Rossignol 2011/2012 Super 7 Ski

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