How to Choose the Right Ski Length
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- čas přidán 28. 05. 2024
- In this ski tutorial we teach you how to choose the right ski length for you. Choosing a ski size that fits you can be confusing in the beginning and this video is my attempt at making it easier for you. I have never come a cross a perfect ski size chart or guide and here’s my best attempt at it and its also not perfect :P Join a camp for adults: stompittutorials.com/camps/
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Im thinking about Bent Chetler 100 18/19, but they have only 180cm in stock, my height is 176+-. I want to ride a park or powder, is it a right choose?
I'm on volkl carbon fiber powder skis 184 w joker touring bindings, maybe 2016s, love em in resort all terrain for fast superG or trees, side country.. I'm only 160 lbs but hate shorter skis, renting they always try to give me 170s, but High school raced FIS on 203cm s
*instructions unclear* : i ended up with 210 cm skis
Ops. Sorry I might be better at explaining ski technique than this or did you seriously overestimate you skill level? ;)
@@StompItTutorials i am joking, it is just a very used meme on the internet with instructions unclear :))
@@mascalzone5274 Haha thanks. I now and then have to goggle for when memes end up in the comments. This time it got me :)
I used to ride 210's and had 3 pairs of 207's. Rossignol Roc 550's and Strato 102's. Also some Dynamic VR17's What's the problem ?
@@rds990 that maybe hes too short
Hands down the best channel when it comes to skiing/skiing equipment, keep it up!
Totally agree
The wife overheard this video, totally blown my plan to buy a new pare of skis 🎿 😀
Haha she sounds like my GF.
@@StompItTutorials what kind of bindings are those?
Man up, get the new skis and a wife
Simp
Just tell her I got them for u as a present lmao
Great formula and good caveats to include.
I'm 68 years old, (5'8" / 173cm, 160 lbs / 73kg) and of course, in 1970, I was on a pair of Dynamic VR17's at 207 cm! I include that because of some of the previous (funny) comments regarding loooong skis.
About 18 years ago, I switched to telemark skiing, but the formula works for me.
My quiver of skis for use in Utah:
1. For powder days, I was on 185cm Armada JJ's at 116 underfoot and they were amazing. I sold them and am now on 182cm Dynastar M-Free 108's which I have just gotten and not skied yet.
2. For those days of under about 10" / 25cm of new or chopped up over bumps, my go to ski is a pair of Blizzard Rustler 10's at 172cm.
3. Bump days with less than about 6" / 12cm or chopped up days after a storm or choppy bump days, Atomic Vantage 85 at 165cm.
4. And for really hard pack, carving days or bump days when they are really set up, 160cm Rossignol 84 AI's with a blisteringly tight 11.5m turn radius.
I don't go in the park, but I like to ski switch and the rocker/camber/rocker design is brilliant for all of my needs!
I am hoping Austria opens it resorts back up in December. I NEED TO SKI!!!
I skied yesterday and I need a new hit soon. Got my fingers crossed for you my Austrian friends! Stay safe and do lots of squats during you lockdown! :)
Same man...
I need to get money to ski.
End of January now. Keep hoping ...
Testing:
186 tall
~180 eye level
+heavier +2cm (102 kg) + quite heavier 2cm
+fast and long turns +2cm
+powder +2cm
+rocker +2cm
+free ride +2cm
= 192cm. Exactly the length of my Bent Chetler 120s, success!
I think there’s a little bit of room for discretion like I used for double heavy or if someone is just waaaay different in some sense, but overall it’s a good guide.
One more criterion id out there is confidence interval of +/- 2cm. Meaning if your calcs are within 2cm in either direction of the ski length you come across, it is an acceptable match.
This was the best breakdown video for picking ski length I’ve seen yet. It seems like there’s so much pressure to pick longer skis, and I really appreciate your logic around having the right ski for the right purpose. THANK YOU!!
The most clear video yet for a general guide regarding ski length and your calculation put me right at the length of my favorite all mountain ski !
Always come here for tips and tricks. Thank you.
I Love skieing but have had knees, i use skies that goes up to my chin, made it way better with less pain. awsome video thanks for sharing
Thank you for being so thorough! Easy to understand guidance.
Greetings from Mt. Hood Oregon! Great video as always! Cant wait to shred my first pair of brand new skis (Chetler 100s)! Counting down the days until we can hit the slopes!!
Amazing work mate, I really enjoy the knowledge your sharing. Wish I could learn some tricks from you.
This was super helpful in making my decision on some new skis. Thanks man, and happy skiing!
awesome, nice and clear parameters, my skis fit these give and take definitions.
Why thank you. I've been looking for skiis, and this video really helped me out. Thanks!
Brilliant tutorial! Great content! I'm into 30 of your videos and I love them great work!
Been looking for a replacement of my current skis and this helped a lot!
Danke schon! I like how direct your presentation is!
Love the channel. Thanks for all the helpful information.
Love the channel! All very helpful information.
I know this is an older video, however someone going from skiboards/ski blades to skis, there were a ton of questions that I had recently and your videos, esp this one helped me tremendously. Just wanted to drop a comment and say thank you
Great Videos - Appreciate the guides and tutorials! Keep it up dude!
Thanks for making this video. After a few trips renting we decided to buy our own equiment, so im going to be hunting on the 2nd hand market. Unfortunatly i do not live in a ski region so i was worried when jumping in and buying gear without being able to see it.
Awesome video to understand concept of skis choosing ocean
I’m 190cm tall, very heavy, huge feet and this gave me some good perspective. I typically use 177 when renting. I think this is usually what’s available, I want to try something in the 190cm range now in possible a 95-100 flex. Also this makes me think of how funny I looked last weekend on a pair of 165cm rentals, they were really fun, but stopping power was.. also, lass mich einfach sagen, dass es weg war 😂
thak you for makingthis detailed video bro, hard to find a good video with gread detail, i will buy ur merch and support!
Couple questions:
1) do you use the vertical height of the skis or actual length, which comes out shorter?
2) do you take boots/shoes thickness into account?
It's that time of year again! Stomp it Tutorials is part of the annual rituals of prepping for the slopes!
I'm 198cm/85kg and run on 163cm skis with R13. I love it. Longer skis make long turns and you need much speed to make sharp turns. But I tested 170cm R16 and did not feel comfortable at all, not my style. More than just looking into your height and centimeters, is much more important how you want to ski and what ski length and radius will bring you that feeling. Test some different skis and forget all these rules. The most stupid thing is to buy skis which follow some formula but doesn't support your ski style you want. That will eventually stop your hobby.
i want to try shorter skies because i feel too much drag when i want to turn as a beginner ill give a shot at something like 165 tomorrow they always give me something about 180 because I'm 186 and 93 kg but I feel it will be more fun in a smaller one
Awesome channel man! I’m going to ski Calabogie peaks in Canada this weekend.
I just love listening to your voice..
Excellent video!! Useful
Super helpful place to start!
Great tutorial. Thanks!
I'm 5'10 and typically ski on 178 88 underfoot. But I found the most insane deal 50% off elan Domino skis which are 188 length and very heavy powder skis. I feel like its going to make me a much better rider learning how to control them and I can look into a custom pair next season probably around 182
Amazing tutorial, I really like your pragmatic and step-by-step way of teaching
Thank you very much! I do my best :)
Great Guide! Thanks a lot
5'10-11" and about 75kg/165lbs, I just got a pair of 179's (Nordica Enforcer Free 104). They're the sweet spot for me. I feel like I can do just about everything with them.
Just the advice that I needed!
Age and physical fitness level also def play a major role in selecting your boards !
Please make the opportunity to test before purchasing !!
You methodology is a good starting point . . .
Nice Video Jens - i like your style of presentation! Hope to ski with you one day!
Sure let´t do it. Maybe we can find time for that in Spring.
Very nice. I will buy my ski's based on your video. Thx!
Very helpful! Thanks.
The bent chetler 120 and similar skis should always be 5 to 10 cm above your own height in my opinion. The central mounting point makes the shovels short for deep snow otherwise and they are super agile anyway
I have 2 types, 50 or 213 cm. Its just depends on what I want to do for the day. 50 feels like something in between skiing and ice skating, while 213 lets me ride aggressive SG lines.
Thank you for video , it really helps me to buying decisions 👋🏻
I really liked this tutorial! I've been contimplating on buying a longer ski now that I've gotten more comfortable and confident in my abilities. Excited to apply this method to find my perfect ski length!
Highly recommend to rent one in your desired length for a day.
Some rental shops even let you try two or even three different ski's and sell you the ones that felt best.
i love your videos so much! Im about to purchase a 169 atomic
I'm 65 and thank you for the info...also I'm intermediate and love skiing in New England USA
Great Chanel and well explained
Love the J Skis in the background!
Well done!
Oh man, I just need the resorts here in US to open! So glad you are making videos so I can at least imagine going skiing!
Enjoy mentally skiing. I hope we keep being allowed to ski here in Switzerland.
Really love your work..keep it up!And now need your help.I am searching for my secondary powder skis but i will mainly use them for skitouring! And i am a bit confused about the length! I am 189cm, 95kg and almost advanced i would say..Now i am riding the benchetlers at 192cm wich feel perfect but I think that i must buy a smaller one around 185cm now for skitouring!Really looking forward for your answer..thanks a lot!
Wow 🤩 nice 👍🏻
Thanks 🙏 for the lesson
Perfect formula! I‘m ~175cm and super happy with my „short“ K2 Reckoner 102 :))
Great system!
This actually helped me thx!
Liked the advice! but for deep pow, just go for the longest length there is unless you weigh very little! I'm the same size as you, and i'm on the 193 Bent Chetlers and they are still too short for the very deep days.
Testing this came out to be spot on with my Bent Chetlers!
What height are you and what size ski did you get?? I’m thinking about getting the bent chetlers too!
Thank you! Helps a lot. Love ur vids😜
Happy to help!
What a charisma, awesome chanal!
Thanks i’m going to buy new skis soon so i needed help and so i saw this video so i clicked on it. + i was already subscribed to you because you taught me frontflip on skis!
That is so sick! Well done learning frontflip with us! :)
@@StompItTutorials thanks but i couldn’t do it without you!
Works thanks
That's what i am waiting for!
Great video! What do you use the Redsters for? And what size are they for you?
Thanks!
Thanks, this is something I've always wandered about 😁
Happy to help!
Great video thanks for the info👍
Any time!
Very good video! Hope to ski LAAX soon👍🏼
I hope so too!
Okay, without getting to the quote whether this formula works or not" I ran the numbers. I ski a 179 cm length Atomic backland 117. I've been seeing on this length and with since 2016 or so when it was the Automatic. I chose this length because it's short enough to be nimble in the trees and moguls in Utah, but let me float on deep days in Japan and Europe. Your formula resulted in the length -179/180 - on which I have been skiing for years. So applause to you 👏👏👏
Probably could ski the 184 without issues, but skiing 201s into moguls as a kid had my scared into shortest possible skis.
Please make a video on how you have your skis setup 🙏🏼
Very good!
Thank you for the content and useful formula. Question: should I be wearing boots, shoes, or bare feet for the eye-level reference? Wearing boots raises me up several centimeters. Sorry if you answered this elsewhere.
Looks like good advise
5'10, heavy athletic build & old age weight of 210. Ex-racer (had 198" straight slalom skis back in the 90s but now "league" race GS on 175s)... bought 186cm Blizzard bonafides. Happy eve if perhaps a bit longer than spec
Definitely a good general way to look at it. The only thing that can be a bit confusing for some would be the stiffness. Maybe mention that it holds mainly true when it's the exact same model. That if you start mixing models the stiffness can be totally different regardless of size.
Eg. a 171cm Head Framewall will be way stiffer than a 181cm Head Caddy, even though both are freestyle of the same brand. Same deal with the Head Kore 99 vs the other in the Kore lineup. The 99 is a much stiffer ski.
Good point! It is completely true I wish I went more into detail on that in the video.
Hey, thanks fo the video ! I've seen that you have the x9 WB skis ; what's your opinion about them ? I'm tempted to purchase them !
Like always a great video.
I appreciate that
Dank, dass du so aktiv Videos Machst bitte weiter so 👍
Es kommt viel mehr! :)
What was the last ski you showed? Looks amazing. I’m currently looking to buy an all mountain ski that I can use in park. Not sure if the Maverick is a good option or not.
I've gone with top of my head since my second year of skiing, always works out pretty well :D
This comment makes me feel so much better haha I just got some Salomon QST 92 and they are about at the top of my head and I am very worried about them this year. Hopefully it will all work out!
@@garretthayden7031 you'll be fine with those, it's not an exact science at all, I've skied two skis that are like 5 cm different on back to back days, and hardly noticed a difference
@@garretthayden7031 if it makes you feel better mine are like 5 inches taller than my head
Back in the late 70s-early 80s I was competing Freestyle. I skied 185cm K2s for bumps and jumps. Some competitions and ski areas had areas where you had a minimum 200cm ski length Mary Jane at Winter Park, CO was one. Before I went pro we weren't allowed to go inverted or do more than a 720 off the kicker. On the pro circuit we could do any jump you could get certified for, but a double twisting triple was as far as I got. It helped that one of my coaches was Eddie Lincoln and skiing with the greats like Scott Brooksbank, John Clendenin was awesome.
I enjoy your videos.
I think I my need to buy some new skis. I like them bendy, with a short carve radius - but I also like a shorter ski that can handle the occaissional powder dump. Any recommendations
Awesome!
I love this basement review series ❤️
Glad you like them! 8 more to come :)
To make things even more confusing - there are some differences at how manufacturers define the length of skis. Some of them mark up the length of the surface of skis, or unbent skis ( so after the ski is shaped up actual projection length is 2-2.5 cm shorter than claimed one); others put the length of projection, thus 170 of one brand can be longer than 172 of other brand.
So useful!
Glad you think so!
Maaaaan I really hope ski resorts open soon in Italy, I WANT to ski
It is awesome info. Thanks. Can you elaborate on the topic of binding settings, please? If I use conventional ski shop settings the skis are popping up like crazy. Some times I landing without one or even two skis. That will be a good topic for a new video.
Great suggestion!
What's the background music? Also great video love your channel.
Magic formula worked perfectly for my Moment Wildcats 174 ! You, Sir, are our new ski oracle. Hey, when's it gonna snow in Snowbird ?
November 11th 2020. You´re welcome ;)
Iam 178.5 cm skiied for many years , 12 years as a ski instructor ...I SKI on 200cm powder skiis & 207 slope skiis .. Lacroix ,powder , Streuler slope .. !
I’m 1.85m, and I use 1.65m Atomic Redsters for Piste(basically the Slalom ski variant), they work fine for me, I have it up to approximately my chin, it usually is the case that, the shorter the slalom ski the more control you have over them, I can’t really agree or disagree since I’ve just been at this length for a long long time and I got used to it, I tried 1.95m Downhill skis, that was the coolest experience ever, the ability to hold the edge on a 50% slope at speed is madness, but, I don’t recommend doing it if you are new to skiing, stick to piste, falling hurts, found out twice when on the Downhill 1.95m’s
Great tips! Are the calculations thrown of any by twintips with longer tails or is it considered in the calculations with "park" or similar? Great video as always Jens!
No, the calculation will be rather accurate. The fact that you get longer tails if you mount the skis closer to center on park skis is one of the reason why freestyle skis are kind of a long type skis often around eye brow hight to full body length depending on your ability,
The meaning of "Rocker" varies such a lot. A lot of racing skis have a tip rocker, park skis have a fairly small tail kick. Then you have huge full rocker off-piste skis. You definitely want to go a bit longer on those, because a large amount of the ski is not in contact with the snow at times.
Great point!
I wish I knew this back when I got my skis. Mine are a bit too long and heavy for me. Trying to learn a basic 360 but it feels so awkward, they just won't spin as I'd like them to. I'm pretty short and average weight (at age 17).
I'll get the 360 down at some point though! :)
woop woop Hi ma dude =D im so Hpyed for the season =P have a nice Sunday ^^
Thank you Niklas! Same to you :)