Nordica has been gradually whittling away at wood components in its women’s ski cores, first replacing one wood stringer with foam, then another. This year they’ve dispensed with the wood/foam pastiche and gone all balsa, the superlight hardwood with a honeycomb...
Nordica emphasizes the lighter weight aspect of the NRGy models with a see-through topskin that exposes the filigree of the Titanal Torsion Bridge overlaid above the I-Core and its foam stringer. Together these technologies suggest a featherweight ski for the dainty...
For the second year running, the Belle to Belle has changed an important aspect of its make-up without altering the who, what and where of what it’s all about. This year the change is in the core, which morphed from the Wi-Core to the Balsa Core CA. The balsa...
The reason brands create families of skis is so that they can present a product at each of several key price points. In the NRGy series, the NRGy 80 isn’t just the narrowest model, it also occupies the lowest rung on the price ladder, which means a certain amount of...
Nordica should be able to build a carving ski to the Fire Arrow 80 Ti EVO’s dimensions in their sleep, so whatever foibles caused it to fall from our Recommended ranks should be corrected by the time you read this sentence. If you were to examine past realskiers’...
