I'm thinking of buying a pair for my wife. She's about 130 pounds and this will be her first full year carving. She's really not interested in demoing, she simply wants the same setup every time out while she's learning... she found this to be m,ost helpful while learning soft-booting many years ago.
In any case she actually likes very stiff, very responsive soft-boot equipment. Her riding style on softies is very much about precision and finesse and never about muscling it. She packs a lot of power in her turns and makes it look easy. I sueopect her alpine style will wind up being very similar.
Which elastomers would you recommend I get? I'm thinking the medium ones... looking for a little bit of shock obsorbtion but still a solid interface. Or are the soft ones really not that soft and would I be better off getting those? Like I said she'll ride whatever I get for her until she's got enough experience to form her own opinions. Oh, btw she has SB 225 boots w/ a tongue from a 224 (to soften them a bit) and has a Coiler women's fc 165 on the way.
