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In-depth review

Armada Bdog

There is soft, really soft, and then there is Bdog soft. Designed together with the legendary Phil Casabon, the Armada Bdog has from start been designed and made for jibbing. Its perfectly symmetrical, true twin design is soft, playful and easy to get used to. I have been skiing these for almost 3 years now and no ski has felt more stable and trusted under my foot from sliding rails to hitting doubles on the kicker lines. They have withstood core shots, bent edges and a chipped topsheet while still shredding as hard as they did when I first got them. Armada has really outdone themselves when it comes to the durability of this ski. The uncommon design of having straight sidewalls on the tip and tail is almost too easy to look past until you go back to a more common design. To prevent snagging and the tips getting caught in snow and on each other, the sidewall stops getting wider earlier than other park skis, helping you butter rollers with ease, slide rails with confidence and lacing grabs on jumps without worrying about the landing. With a 94mm underfoot they are also incredibly stable in most conditions.

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Silas Damkjaer

Stylemeister

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Armada Edollo

If you saw these skis in the park, your first impression might be their unusually large yet old design, but any seasoned park skier will know looks aren't everything when it comes to the Edollo ski. When you hear about the Edollo’s connection to Henrik Harlaut, it's easier to understand its notorious reputation in the park, designed in collaboration with arguably the BEST freestyle skier ever. With its short rocker tips and wide base, the Edollo offers the biggest possible landing surface, only smaller than freeride skis. This enormous surface will help you keep stable at high speeds and tall heights, making any landing easier to stomp. Famous for his butter tricks, Harlaut has made sure this ski compliments his style. The flex pattern will provide you with a slight softer nose than tail, helping you bend the ski under pressure, while maintaining good stiffness in landings to prevent washing out in the landing. This not only makes it an incredibly good ski for big air, but it also lets you rip it on slopes without sacrificing too much stability as most park skis do. It's even wide enough to manage powder and would not be a bad choice for a backcountry freestyle ski, although not the best either.

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Silas Damkjaer

Stylemeister

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In-depth review

Atomic Maverick 88 TI

I bought these skis to act as a good all-round ski that I could us while skiing and teaching in Australia and they were brilliant. For a ski that is quite light and not particularly stiff, I found I could get a decent amount of performance out of them, and I could certainly trust them to hold an edge through medium and long turns. Being on the lighter side also made them nice and agile when performing short turns, and again, they had enough performance that you could push them to the limit even on steeper terrain. The 88Tis are 87mm underfoot and are definitely not designed for the deepest of powder days, but they were just light and flexi enough to give you the float you needed to deal with the vast majority of ‘in resort’ ‘off piste’ skiing you will come across. They also dealt really well with tight tree runs, moguls, and all sorts of ‘variables’ I came across.

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Harry Morris

Certified Shredder

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Black crows Atris birdie

The women's model of the Black Crows Atris, the Atris Birdie, is promoted as 'a ski that excels in powder and is also impeccable in all other conditions'. And I agree with that! Four years ago, I bought these skis as my first to do more freeriding. Initially, I thought I would only use these skis on powder days, but it turned out to be quite the opposite: they became my most used and for several seasons even my only skis because they met all my requirements. In powder, these skis provide float, control, and most importantly, a lot of fun. They taught me how to freeride and enjoy it because they do what you ask of them: both in large fields and in runs through the trees. Indeed, they excel the most in powder, but are stiff enough to give you control in less than optimal off-piste conditions.

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Heleen de Jong

OG Granolagirl

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Black crows Mirus cor

These are my favourite ski. EVER. FULL STOP. The Mirus Cor’s do everything, and they do it really, really well. I bought these so I could have a good all-round ski that I could travel with and ski any conditions, any line, any speed, without having to change skis.

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Harry Morris

Certified Shredder

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Black crows Vertis

This is a nice piste ski that you can also enjoy off-piste! The Vertis is the piste model from Black Crows and it does that well. With an 85 mm waist, the ski gives you a pleasant edge change and the 15 m radius makes turns easy. The wider, of the two standard sizes, steel edge provides grip and a solid feel. But this ski is not limited to perfectly groomed pistes. You can also have fun with it off-piste. Especially in tracked terrain, the stiffness of the ski gives a feeling of stability and control. As a result, you can ski at higher speeds, which compensates for the somewhat more difficult turning of this stiffer ski. I'm not a park skier – and these skis are not intended for that – but you can jump well with them. They do not slide out from under you quickly. For rails, they might not be so suitable due to the 8 cm off-center mounting.

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Heleen de Jong

OG Granolagirl

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Head WC Rebels e-SL SW RP EVO 14

The perfect race ski if you want a slight step down froma FIS ski. I bought these after my Blizzard slalom skis exploded on impact with a fence and they are now my favourite race ski I’ve ridden! Head skis are generally slightly stiffer than some of the competition and so even though these aren’t quite up there with the FIS models, they give you an incredible amount of performance and trust, unless you really know what you’re talking about you would struggle to tell you weren’t on a FIS ski.

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Harry Morris

Certified Shredder