by Jackson Hogen | Sep 8, 2017
If you don’t like going fast, you’re reading the wrong paragraph, for the essential trait of a Frontside Power ski is stability at speed. Maintaining control at rocket speeds isn’t for the meek, for it involves commitment to each turn by leaning into it with your...
by Jackson Hogen | Sep 8, 2017
While authoritative edge grip is the primordial quality of the Frontside category, not all skiers are interested in applying this skill to a mad dash to the bottom. The majority of our Power Picks have nothing but contempt for first gear, disregarding all turning...
by Jackson Hogen | Sep 8, 2017
More women’s skis are sold in the Frontside category than any other, for several salient reasons: The first ski a woman owns is usually a Frontside ski, for better performance on groomed terrain. Anything wider is almost always a second ski, Women tend to be smaller...
by Jackson Hogen | Sep 8, 2017
A case could be made that the whole idea of acquiring a modern ski is to make the business of getting from point A to point B as easy and effortless as possible. The skis our test panel has identified here have taken this mission to heart. These aren’t limp noodles...
by Jackson Hogen | Sep 8, 2017
The most powerful women’s Frontside skis aren’t the barely bendable beasts that populate the men’s Power selections, but they get the job done for the fairer – and lighter – sex. They possess the primordial property of maintaining snow contact when the skier pushes...
by Jackson Hogen | Sep 8, 2017
Among elite consumer products, it’s hard to imagine a more hard-luck case than that of race skis in America. A mere 25 years ago if you had any pretensions at all of being an expert they were the only game in town. Now they’re not even considered in the discussion of...
