Until you get used to them and begin to trust them, they feel a little thin. They still make a Fischer World Cup RC4 SC (My pair is old), and they will give you the same performance and security, once you get used to them. They gave back what you put in.įeel is another. They were 'playful', but only once you got them up to speed and started making some hard turns. The 6 Stars could handle some speed (a lot more speed than the 5 stars) and felt solid while skiing fast. A good SL-ish ski will do it with no complaints, but that's no what its strong suit is - it really works better in its design speed range. Pick a sidecut radius that matches the speed you want to make your turns at and the size of your hill (these two things kind of go together) don't get a 13 m ski to go a mile a minute on. What you are looking for is a full-cambered (no rocker, no early rise) one-step down from a racing FIS ski, in a turn radius closer to SL (about 13 m) than GS (30 m for FIS 18-19 for cheater GS skis). Skis are really not that much better at doing what the Volkl 6 stars did very well with the right pilot. Skis have gotten better for skiing powder and for smearing/drifting turns in deep snow in the trees.
