Because all new skiers begin their ski lives on groomers, the Frontside category reaches farther down the price ladder than any other genre. Every major brand has a layered Frontside collection that offers a series of stepping-stone models that will take a never-ever...
The Head Super Joy, an avatar of the Lighter is Better trend in ski design, returns in 2020 with a slight tweak in its shape and composition. There’s Karuba in the core in lieu of Koroyd – still a super light substance, but substantial enough to be called...
Head overhauled its Joy collection, eliminating the Great Joy and Wild Joy to clear the way for the Kore 99 W and Kore 93 W, respectively. All the remaining Joys – Total, Super, Pure and Easy – were run through the make-over machine. New molds were cut...
The new Kästle FX106 HP is an unabashed powder ski. It’s built to float and drift on a lightweight chassis that does without the two Titanal laminates that characterized the BMX105 HP that preceded it. Nearly 50cm of its running surface is rockered (320mm in the...
All ski names require a certain measure of decoding, as they tend to include cryptic abbreviations that contain vital clues as to the model’s performance potential. Such is the case with Kästle’s use of “HP” in the model names in its FX...
