Last season saw the debut of the women’s Joy series, the first application of Graphene™ in the ski world, and the market reception could not have been better. Head also made hay with two cornerstone models, the Rev 85 Pro and Rev 80 Pro, which offered elite...
K2 has reigned over the US market for so long its leadership has practically become a cliché. The keys to their sustained success are manifold, but from a product standpoint it’s not hard to summarize: K2’s are easy to ski. Regardless of your skill level, your terrain...
Brands with an entrenched position don’t normally overhaul the core of their collection for both men and women in the same year, but that’s just what K2 has done for 2016. We’re not talking some deft tweak, the umpteen iteration of the brand’s signature Mod technology...
Today’s Kästle has adopted one of skiing’s venerable names, but behaviorally the skis they are crafting in the present share zero DNA with the skis the brand made in the past. We know whereof we speak because we skied the Austrian Kästles of thirty years ago and they...
However hazy the boundaries might have been between previous MX, FX and BMX series, that fog has lifted. While the MX and FX models appear to overlap, with FX models down to 85mm (underfoot) and MX models available up to 98mm, were you to ski them side-by-side you...
Line has come a long way in its brief history without straying very far from home. We can’t think of another well-distributed ski brand that began life crafting handmade skiboards, which in case you’ve forgotten, were the super-shorties barely long enough to contain a...
