The Santa Ana illustrates an interesting point: if a wide-waisted ski has a short meter-radius measurement, which dimension dominates behavior? As your Editor at realskiers has contended for 20 years, the width dictates response as it doesn’t matter what the math...
We understand why other ski tests awarded top honors to the Enforcer: if the skier is strong enough, it’s a love affair waiting to happen. Our most powerful skiers would also place the Enforcer among the best in show, so we’ve included it among our Recommended models...
Nordica didn’t change a thing about the Nemesis except how they build it. It’s still a lightweight 98, they just set aside the Wi-Core construction they used last year and substituted the new Balsa Core CA, aiming to make what was already a favorite among our testers...
“This ski was a total surprise to me,” confessed Matt from Footloose. “It gets my award for Best 97 Waist that skis like an 80-something waist. I just wish it wasn’t a twin tip…” We concur on all points. One of the bigger shocks of our 2016 test is that the Nordica...
A torsionally rigid rocket fueled by a tank of traditional camber underfoot, the NRGy 100 takes some determination to crank up on edge, but once it’s there it could roll over a land mine and not get tossed off line. Old, set-up snow won’t deflect it and hard snow...
