For most men, a Frontside ski represents a destination, whereas for many women a Frontside ski is part of the journey, a stepping stone that will help her attain the skills experts take for granted. The new Blizzard Cheyenne is a bit of both, enough ski for the...
It’s in the nature of successful ski brand families to extend the clan as far as reason will allow. In today’s market, that means either adding or subtracting 10mm of waist width to the icon that first caught traction. If that flies, repeat. Sometimes this means the...
Blizzard has been making fine Frontside skis for several years, but as they’ve changed either the construction or the name each of the last few seasons, American skiers may not associate models like the Power X8 with progenitors like the Magnum 8.0 Ti that shared the...
The rumor we started that Blizzard created the G-Power FS so that ordinary citizen-skiers could take their shot at breaking the sound barrier is probably apocryphal, but it contains a kernel of truth. The G-Power is also rumored to be rockered tip and tail, yet it...
As Americans have gravitated to fatter and fatter skis, we’ve lost the art of making short, snappy turns. Even the skiers who ski well technically don’t make many short turns, in part because wide skis make moving quickly edge to edge either a chore or impossible. If...
