I'm interested in buying Head SS iSpeed skis. Why? I finally realized what a carving ski can do. I bought a used pair of Atomic FIS Slalom Redsters at 155. Plate under the binding. Gently used by a junior racer. I skied them all day on boilerplate and boy was that a revelation.
Those things grip the ice and make it easy. I discovered that I can handle those skis, do arc-to-arc carving, and I'm working on bending them good at the fall line to sharpen the turn and releasing fast for float. Working on it, getting some sense that this is indeed possible for me. I'm also working on getting upside down at the top of the turn by flexing fast, completing the turn by continuing to flex all the way until the turn is over, and so on. But those race skis are not appropriate as my daily drivers; I want to ski bumps in the east without changing skis, but carve hard snow otherwise, all on one ski. I'm reading here and beginning to think the SS iSpeed is it.
I weight 145lbs. I ski all day without tiring, and enjoy skiing slowly, doing drills, working on perfecting my initiations, getting all three releases working well, etc. After a day on ice with the Redsters, I now know I can enjoy speed on skied-off freeze-thaw-refreeze "snow" here in New England. My current daily skis are 84 underfoot and 170 in length (Kastle FX84s). They just don't want to do anything near what the Redsters do as far as carving goes, but they work well in the bumps. I used to love them before skiing the Redsters.
I think the Heads are in my future, given what I hear of their longitudinal flex.
What length? Suggestions?