Construction

As with many of the other Revolts, the Revolt 101 features a poplar / beech wood core, fiberglass laminate, full-length sidewalls with a mini-cap finish, a fiberglass laminate, and a sintered P-Tex 2100 base.

Shape & Rocker Profile

The Revolt 101 looks very much like a shrunken-down Revolt 114; the two skis have very similar shapes and rocker liners. Both feature minimal early tapering at their tips but have more tapered tail shapes. Both have pretty deep but very low-slung rocker lines. Unsurprisingly, the Revolt 101’s rocker lines are a bit shallower than the more pow-oriented 114, but the Revolt 101 still has pretty deep rocker lines relative to other ~100mm-wide skis. I wouldn’t call the Revolt 101’s tail a ‘true twin,’ but it does have enough tail splay to allow for switch skiing in shallow-ish snow.

Flex Pattern

Here’s how we’d characterize the flex pattern of the 182 cm Revolt 101:

Tips: 8
Shovels: 8.5-9
In Front of Toe Piece: 9-10
Underfoot: 10
Behind the Heel Piece: 10-9.5
Tails: 9-7

And here’s how we’d characterize the flex pattern of the 175 cm Revolt 101:

Tips: 7.5
Shovels: 8-9
In Front of Toe Piece: 9-10
Underfoot: 10
Behind the Heel Piece: 9.5-9
Tails: 8.5-7

The Revolt 101 is a very strong ski overall. The very end of its tail softens up a bit, but the vast majority of the ski is quite stiff.

Sidecut Radius

Like many Völkl skis, the Revolt 101 features their “3D Radius” sidecut design. In short, it features long radii at the tips and tails that are blended into a tighter radius underfoot. The idea is that you get less hooky and more predictable tips and tails when making bigger turns through variable snow, while still being able to make tighter carves using the middle of the ski. In the case of the 182 cm Revolt 101, the stated sidecut radii numbers are 24.6 m (shovel) / 19 m (waist) / 22.4 m (tail).

Mount Point

The Revolt 101’s recommended mount point is about -7 cm from true center, which slots right between the mount points of more freestyle-specific skis like the Revolt 104 (-2 cm) and more traditional directional skis like the Völkl Mantra 102 (-11 cm).