TEST: Salomon 3V, slalom carver for the French

must premise that the world of slalom shop is divided into two categories, on the one hand we find very easy and fun products that are skiable from a wider group of subjects. On the other hand some houses continue to propose, for the consumer market, almost replicas of racing models, selling skis tough, highly reactive ee who do not forgive any mistakes.

Salomon 3V (which has just been presented at the ISPO the new layout of Monaco blue-yellow) is not exactly fits in neither category. It is proposed as a slalom ski very mellow and heavy, suitable for hard ground and tends to sink into the snow easily riportata.Tuttavia not so sudden cornering that input as you would expect from a structure so important, nor that effect of unhorsed in the case in which rolling back.
As said, in fact the input curve is not typical slalom because it does not pull in as of the tracks, but always needs to be worked with a precise movement of the body . The output curve is a photocopy of the entrance is not lightning nor direct route, but always controlled, without surprises and without disarcionamenti.
Skiing can also forgive many errors in setting the trajectory and conduction , admitting a few turn with your foot to restrict the curve during the same arch.
In practice it is a very gentle slopes, which leads to a rhythmic skiing but bland.
The structure, with the central reinforcement (Poweline) which Salomon has used in recent years, is very heavy, very suitable for a public with good musculature and responsive, less than the lightest and technical.
The estate, with this structure, is always guaranteed, even on hard, and above all the vibrations are almost absent.

The final judgment on the slopes, however, is not totally positive. He can not fully identified in a category: it is enjoyable, but never precision like its other competitors nor docile as others. The structure suggests
important to a ski very responsive and close to the concept of slalom racing. Instead, the run and the input / output curves is slower than usual (the result was due to the preparation of very touristy ski test, especially with regard to the tuning epr), having to put much effort in the management of skiing in cortoraggio true.
Salomon 3V fits so much to the skiers who want to use it for short to mid-radius curves and not for those who want to find a pure slalom track, addressing especially for skiers of power rather than up.