Last season, the MX83 received a ridiculous, implausibly high score.  This year it went up.

If the best ski earns the best score, then the MX 83 must be the best ski. Its score percentages are higher than the winning vote margins of African dictators. Most testers who rate it have skied it before; they ski it every year, if only to experience, one more time, what it must be like to ski like a god.

Naturally the MX83 holds like an electromagnet on ice; one expects this from the best Frontside skis and the MX83 doesn’t disappoint.  Somehow it also manages to flow over irregular terrain like it was a liquid instead of a solid. This is how a Frontside ski earns silly-high marks for off-piste performance:  when it’s confronted with deep snow it burrows to the bottom and skis that surface like the loose stuff on top wasn’t there.

This is where we’d normally insert a pithy tester quote that illuminates the special sensation of riding the ski, but the comments on the MX 83 are all slight variations on the same theme, something on the order of, “The finest ski I’ve ever skied, forgiving yet holds like a race ski.”  If you want to read more of the same, just read the last sentence again.

When one distills what makes the MX83 so great down to its essence, it’s the ski’s innate ability to impart confidence bordering on invulnerability.  No matter where you go or how fast you go, you feel as though nothing could knock you off your feet, ever.  Giddy up.