Power Picks: High Speed on High Edges
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...Women’s Frontside Recommended Skis
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...Power Picks: High Speed on High Edges
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...Quattro W 8.0 Ca
Part of the Quattro concept is to offer a choice of waist width, length and sidecut for a given construction and price point. The Quattro W 8.0 Ca has a sister ski, the 7.4 Ca, with the identical build, baseline and sidecut radius for each size, but an overall narrower silhouette. That both skis feel stable yet flexible is partly attributable to Blizzard’s IQ binding system that centers the integrated binding between two shoulders and fixes it to the ski with a single screw in the middle. A shock-dampening suspension system keeps the ride calm but doesn’t inhibit the Quattro W 8.0 Ca’s unusually sensitive snow feel.