The Skilogik Ice Pick is an anomaly in this line-up for several reasons. It’s a race-ready, world-class slalom ski that’s also an elegant piece of art.  It doesn’t use any metal laminates, yet if anything the prototype is too stiff.  Yes, we said prototype, for the Ice Pick, designer Dave Mazzarella’s latest gem, is so new the ski we tested was still in the last stages of gestation.

The Ice Pick isn’t made with a built-in plate, but that doesn’t mean a plate isn’t a required appendage.  (Mazz may include a plate on the final product.  We’ll keep you posted.) Without the elevation a plate provides, the skier wielding an Ice Pick will discover the unpleasant meaning of the term, “boot-out.”

As you may have surmised from this inside scoop, realskiers enjoys a special relationship with Skilogik through our site’s Founder, who has provided direction and feedback to Mazz during the Ice Pick’s development.  (Realskiers’ Founder, Peter Keelty, plays no current role in organizing our product testing and evaluation methods.)

The inspiration for the Ice Pick was an early version of Head’s race slalom ski, and the Ice Pick’s shares its avatar’s craving for the high edge angles that are only achieved with total commitment to the turn, a move that only strong, talented skiers can execute.  If you know how to throw yourself into a short-radius turn, the Ice Pick knows how to catch you.

No matter how Mazz may modify the flex of the Ice Pick before he goes into production, the Ice Pick you ski can be the Ice Pick you pick: anyone can special order a customized flex pattern.