Don’t Wait Another Day to Get New Gear

Don’t Wait Another Day to Get New Gear

Remember the full ski racks of this fall?  That was before every man, woman and child in  America decided this was the season to get re-equipped. If you need new gear, you’d best hurry up and get it before it’s gone.  Attention Shoppers!  Please be advised that...
The Savvy Shopper: How to Buy Skis

The Savvy Shopper: How to Buy Skis

Let’s begin with a recap of the fundamentals.

Realskiers’ model selection methodology starts by dividing the Alpine ski market into seven categories, using waist width as the organizing principle for three excellent reasons:
1. This dimension is the single best indicator of the ski’s capabilities.
2. Waist width is a hard number, not a fuzzy concept like skier type.
3. Suppliers product lines align with this method, creating models in every category according a coherent pricing logic.

Why This Buyer’s Guide?

Why This Buyer’s Guide?

Don’t read the 2021 Masterfit Buyer’s Guide in Partnership with Realskiers.com for its 62 ski reviews. I should know. I wrote or edited all of them.

Not that the ski reviews aren’t worth the read. But ski reviews on the web are as common as rice, while the Buyer’s Guide contains something no other publication, whether in digital, print or video format, can claim: the most respected, thorough and dependable boot reviews in the world.

This isn’t mere puffery. The Masterfit Boot Test is so well regarded by the supplier community that nearly every brand not only sends its following year’s line-up in four men’s sizes plus three for women, it also dispatches its top designers and/or product managers to a distant North American site for most of the test’s five-day duration.