If all you did was look at its V-shaped baseline, you’d swear the Völkl Shiro was a swiveling disco stick. The front rocker looks like it’s not going to end until it’s somewhere underfoot, where it runs into the pronounced rear rocker, which is slightly flattened...
Comparing the new Two to the One is a simple matter of addition: add 8mm of width to every dimension of the One and you’ve got the Two. More surface area means more flotation and a super-easy-to-smear mentality. A ski this wide, with this big a turn radius, isn’t...
Völkl seems determined to eradicate any remnants of their erstwhile reputation for making über-precise, unforgiving skis. The One, Two and Three (does anyone spend less time in model-naming meetings than Völkl?) are all calibrated to smear, slide and slither. The...
The 100EIGHT has a split personality. It’s a carving ski in a fat ski’s body, a soft-snow ski that wants you to ride the edge. In realskiers’ parlance, it leans to the Finesse side of the Finesse/Power divide, with off-piste skiing and drifting to the edge its...
Our Editor’s pick as Big Mountain Ski of the Year in 2014, the Völkl V-Werks Katana is still the avatar of excellence. Völkl must have been impressed with the V-Werks Katana as well, for they extended its 3D.RIDGE design to a new slew of All-Mountain and Big Mountain...
