Legend W 84

A ski is always more than just its shape, but shape is the main reason the Dynastar Legend W 84 takes top honors for Finesse properties among women’s Frontside skis. Like all the Legends, the W 84 uses a 5-point sidecut that essentially creates a ski within a ski. The widest points at tip and tail are moved closer to the center, so the extremities aren’t connected to the sidecut in the middle that defines turn shape. This allows a ski with a 84mm waist to have a sidecut radius of 12m – less than a World Cup slalom – yet possess the surface area that helps it earn best-in-class marks for Off-Piste Performance.

Legend W 88

Dynastar doesn’t differentiate between its men’s and women’s Legend models; goose and gander get the same ski in a 166cm and 173cm. This means no skimping on the two layers of Titanal or subtle detuning of its signature Powerdrive feature. Given the pliability Powerdrive provides, the Legend X design might be better suited to the fairer sex. Instead of a greeting an immoveable terrain feature with a stiff, coiled spring, Powerdrive reacts by flowing with it, letting the camber zone underfoot maintain the snow connection and define the turn radius. The twin Titanal layers contribute torsional rigidity, mass and vibration damping.

Legend X 84

Because they all use Dynastar’s unique and visually distinctive Powerdrive feature, all the top models in the Legend X series appear to be the same ski in four different shapes. Not so. Each aims for a different skier in different circumstances. The Legend X 84 is...

Legend X 88

Even though the new Dynastar Legend X 88 is the only ski in its series with two sheets of perforated Titanal around its poplar core, it still doesn’t ski like a Power ski. Its behavior is more in line with the rest of the Legend X family, all of which excel at Finesse...

Dynastar 2016 Brand Profile

When Laurent Boix-Vives acquired the distressed fledgling brand Dynastar, he already had Rossignol in his portfolio. Thus was born a sibling rivalry that persists to this day, with the elder trying to establish an untouchable record and the younger always looking for...