Sense the season began I've lost about 20-25 pounds do to illness (160 to 140), I'm on a D3 - X7 - 66", last couple of times out the felt big and heavy. What type of fin or binding adj. do you think would help until a can get a little more weight put on.
First thing we get rid of the safety equipment
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Fin is set at 6.858 = 2.495 = .765 flat = wing at 7 1/2 = RS1's on sequence plate 1 hole forward.
If a could figure out the gates at 28, I could run 28 about 80%. Now its 3-5 balls.
I feel like a have to work a lot harder to get any acceleration and then make the edge change. Could just be me being on the weak side, but both my X5 and X7 always seamed like they would almost ski themselves.
When you say you are one hole forward on your sequence plate, are you one hole forward of 29½" from the lower seem on the front boot to the back of the ski (stock setup), or one hole forward of the middle hole on the plate. The middle hole on the Sequence plate does not put RS1s in the stock position on a D3.
Having said all that, if your ski was skiing well before you lost all the weight, you are probably right that about just not being strong enough yet. With it's big bevels, the X7 is a fairly high-effort ski by design. If it skied effortlessly for you before, you were strong and now maybe you are merely human and more aware of the X7's demanding design.
Hope it wasn't just a fluke, I could get used to this.
5'9"