Last year when Rossignol elected to make its core Experience line more homogeneous by sharing a common technology, it entailed making the flagship model, formerly the burly Experience 100 HD, more like the step-down second fiddle, the Experience 88 HD. Of all the new...
The Head V-Shape series, introduced last year, is a Frontside collection that spans the full range of ski abilities from never-ever to carving master. Bear in mind that Head has another well-established family of Frontside carvers called Supershape, but there’s no...
The Völkl Kanjo, introduced a couple of years ago, is an off-trail ski in a Frontside body, geared down to suit an intermediate skier who isn’t ready to graduate to the Kendo or M5 Mantra. Lighter skiers who want to explore the backside of the mountain without...
When K2 introduced its iKonic construction 4 years ago, the brand was determined to strip away excess weight, both by liposuction (dampening material was removed) and a change in diet (the use of heavier construction materials like wood and metal was curtailed,...
K2’s initial attempts to make a willowy Frontside ski didn’t cut the mustard as true carving utensils when the iKonic series debuted 4 years ago. Two years ago the brand stopped kidding around, cooking up a carbon-reinforced, wood-and-metal structure that behaves like...
