If you like your turns short, accurate and effortless, the Nordica GT 80 Ti is your kind of ski. The way it amplifies the skier’s efforts makes a less skilled carver feel like a world-beater and great skier feel like he’s doing nothing at all. Its point guard quicks come in handy in bumps, where it can fit through fall line fissures no wider than a keyhole. The GT 80 Ti’s idea of Nirvana is an endless, undulating white carpet where it can double-rail its relatively short carved turns all day long. The faster it goes, the better it skis, but it doesn’t require high speed to shine.
The abrupt curvature of the tip rocker on the Enforcer 93 creates the impression of a ski dedicated to off-trail forays into untamed snow conditions, but it’s the pronounced camber behind the shovel that gives this ski its power and grip wherever you send it. Because of its elongated camber zone the Enforcer 93 feels like at home on hard snow, yet its sharply rockered tip and early rise tail are meant to smooth over the irregularities of ungroomed snow. While double-rockered baselines are commonplace in the All-Mountain East genre, Nordica’s particular formula finds just the right balance between on-trail and off-trail requirements.
