Blizzard Firebird SRC Carving Slalom Skis 165 cm w/Marker XCell12 bindings

Blizzard Firebird SRC Skis 165cm with XCell 12 bindings. Whether you want to run a slalom course or make sharp, arcing turns down the frontside, these skis will do it. Stable and strong. I have a set of Blizzard GS skis and thought I would try these, which I bought brand new. They are very, very good...but I also own a set of race stock Atomic's for my slalom races and decided to stick with those. I skied them exactly 11 runs this past week. Over the summer they were race tuned; including a hot box, race structure, 3 degree side and 0.75 degree base bevels and two coats of hot wax. Adjust the bindings (no tool needed), click in and carve trenches! Tip 'em and rip 'em! Brand new they will cost you $1,100, when you can find them. The Firebird SRC is more or less designed for one thing: making precise short-radius turns on firm snow, and it does that darn well. The Firebird collection was developed to bring some fun back into the world of frontside carving, or as Blizzard states, a "rock n' roll attitude with Austrian engineering to back it up." So, what's the recipe of the Firebird SRC? 68 mm waist width, 12.5 m turn radius in the 165 cm length, two sheets of metal, and Blizzard's Carbon Armor and Carbon Spine technology. Ex-racers who love to harken back to their glory days, ski instructors who like to show off, maybe you've got a local slalom ski bum race league, there are plenty of people who will really like this ski. You should remember that it's pretty focused on one type of performance, that being quick turns on firm snow. It's not an all-mountain ski, you probably shouldn't take it off trail, at least not very often, but if you're looking to lay down a ton of slalom radius turns, it doesn't get much better or more rewarding than the Firebird SRC.