One of Völkl’s charming marketing quirks is their preference for keeping a name – such as Charisma – intact while making wholesale changes in the ski’s make-up. The Charisma of 2016 is still a lightweight carver with a passion for short turns, but a year ago it...
If you’ve already achieved genuine all-mountain expertise, Völkl has you covered six ways to Sunday with powerhouse models like the Kenja and Aura. The Yumi is for those who aren’t quite there yet but want to sharpen their all-terrain skills until they shine. The...
Völkl has a time-honored tradition of changing every thing they can think of about a ski but its name. While the trade is obliged to follow these multiple mutations, how on earth is today’s distracted consumer expected to know that the ski he/she researched only last...
It’s been several years since Völkl set the Frontside category on its ear with the introduction of the first RTM 84, a hard snow ski with a fully rockered baseline. At the time, camber was king, Völkl ruled the carving ski roost and the rule-bending RTM 84 achieved...
Most skiers don’t make a lot of short radius turns on groomed runs because, A) the terrain doesn’t require short turns to maintain speed control, and B) short turns are easily mistaken for work. The Code Speedwall S UVO solves the second problem by being simplicity...
