Nordica didn’t change a thing about the Nemesis except how they build it. It’s still a lightweight 98, they just set aside the Wi-Core construction they used last year and substituted the new Balsa Core CA, aiming to make what was already a favorite among our testers...
“This ski was a total surprise to me,” confessed Matt from Footloose. “It gets my award for Best 97 Waist that skis like an 80-something waist. I just wish it wasn’t a twin tip…” We concur on all points. One of the bigger shocks of our 2016 test is that the Nordica...
A torsionally rigid rocket fueled by a tank of traditional camber underfoot, the NRGy 100 takes some determination to crank up on edge, but once it’s there it could roll over a land mine and not get tossed off line. Old, set-up snow won’t deflect it and hard snow...
Nordica has been gradually whittling away at wood components in its women’s ski cores, first replacing one wood stringer with foam, then another. This year they’ve dispensed with the wood/foam pastiche and gone all balsa, the superlight hardwood with a honeycomb...
Nordica emphasizes the lighter weight aspect of the NRGy models with a see-through topskin that exposes the filigree of the Titanal Torsion Bridge overlaid above the I-Core and its foam stringer. Together these technologies suggest a featherweight ski for the dainty...
