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Today, we’re kicking off a new series, where we will debate and try to identify the best skis of the 21st Century from over 30 ski brands.
So over the next couple of weeks, you’re going to be hearing our choices, but we are also going to be sending out a survey to our BLISTER+ members, Digital Access Pass members, and a number of pro athletes and product designers around the ski industry.
Then, in a few weeks, we’ll discuss how our selections match up with all of your answers.
And finally, for the grand finale of this series, we’re going to offer our choices for the Very Best Skis of the Century — can we whittle things down to a top 10? A top 3? To a single ski? We’re going to find out, and it’s certainly going to be fun trying.
Joining me to kick things off are Luke Koppa, Paul Forward, and Rob Dickinson.
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Please let us know if there’s a topic you’d like us to cover or a guest you’d like us to have on GEAR:30. Or if you’d like to nominate yourself for a ‘Gear Therapy’ episode, let us know that, too! You can email us at info@blisterreview.com
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I spy a ’14 Bodacious! Best ski ever!
– Owner of five pair of OG 196s
For Head, if you wanted a defining ski, I’d say the Supershape, which came out around 2005/06, and was the progenitor of the entire Supershape line. It was uniquely suitable to enable a wide range of skiers to carve, by combining a relatively flexible midbody (making it easier to bend) with a torsionally stiff forebody and tail.
Accidentally pressed enter before I finished! Continuing….
….Now you might wish to discount it as not sufficiently innovative, but it was; it’s just that the innovation wasn’t obvious. Specifically, it departed from the standard design of carving skis of the day, which tended to have a stiffer midbody. That made a huge difference for advancing skiers.
Also:
uniquely ***suited***