NoCleverName wrote:Guess what? I ski it just fine. Of course, I may be using the "NoCleverName" movements rather than PMTS ...
As far as construction ... they are obviously more like the i.speed than they are different (look at the catalog). Yes, they are easier to bend than the i.speed. But the basic engineering is the same. The ski is meant for undifferentiated junk snow ... not groomed ... and it is very good at that. Not a race ski.
If you say it doesn't respond to PMTS movements and yet skis well in bad conditions ... what is it responding to? PSIA movements? Is there a crack in PMTS after all? PMTS is only good if you have certain skis?
I have done very well with the skis and boots HH has sold me. So his opinion matters to me. In the past I have taken the narrow skis is to most everything my skill level permits. But, as I'm somewhat older than HH and a lot older than you, now I think I need a bit more of an edge when getting into the junk nowadays. So the Titan is a member of a family I understand, and it gives me the edge.
If the ski isn't appropriate to "learning" PMTS ... fine ... sometimes I don't want to learn. I just want to ski.
Your questions and comments are addressed in this thread,
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=4888&start=45Edit - please consider that all ski recommendations on this site should be for skis that reward PMTS movements. From a PMTS point of view, if the Titan was a great ski for crud, heavy pow, or other difficult off piste conditions it would be rated as such. Instead HH and coaches/experts here have suggested other skis for those conditions.
NoCleverName wrote:Of course, I may be using the "NoCleverName" movements rather than PMTS ...
I'd urge you to get video and study your movements. Any time we jump onto a ski or into conditions that force us into non-PMTS movements we are taking a step backwards in PMTS development. And sometimes it is 3 large steps all at once!