| For me:
1) Foam core skis are just too soft and flexible for me. I like a relatively soft ski, but not so flexible that they're useless on flat, fast hardpack or ice.
2) In the days when camber was a bigger part of ski geometry, I could reliably flatten/totally decamber a pair of foam core skis within half a ski season. Nowadays, camber is less of an issue compared to sidecut, but foam still breaks down too fast for me and the soft ski gets even softer and turns into a wet noodle.
I'm very sensitive to ski flexibility-not too much, not too little. Soft enough for bumping, beefy enough to carve. |