TESTED 2023
Super lightweight for the climb, a central stance provides stability and easy handling on the descent
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In words
Intro
This restyled ski is halfway between Movement's traditional ultralights and their freeride range in terms of both weight and geometry. To be clear, it's still just over 3 kilos for the pair and designed for long outings and multi-day tours, where weight on the ascent plays a crucial role. Its complex, sophisticated construction pairs Paulownia wood with woven carbon fiber and a double layer of fiberglass and titanal in the area beneath the bindings. Its fairly tight turn radius and nice tip rocker provide good handling on all terrains and snow conditions.
On the snow
The strength of this ski is definitely the ascent, which as always been the focus of the Swiss brand's design efforts. Despite the greatly accentuated sidecut, the ski performs well on traverses and technical sections, so long as they're not too extreme. Performance on the descent has been greatly improved over its predecessors. It doesn't forgive leaning back or other insecurity throughout the turn, but if you stay over the skis, they're stable and easy to handle. For speed freaks, it's not the ski for you, as the limits of its light weight become immediately clear. On the other hand, traditional skimo enthusiasts looking to broaden their horizons a bit will find great satisfaction with this ski. It comes into its own on compact terrain and on spring corn and floats well in powder, despite not being super wide. It suffers a bit on crust and on end-of-day chop.
Lab
Very concave, not totally fixable after 9 runs through the tuning machine. Structure worn differently from one ski to the other, not waxed. Good edges, 2 x 1.8 mm at 88.9°, base edge 1.1°. Edge to be removed, overall finish not too bad.
Technical specifications
Construction
cap-sidewall
Materials
paulownia, carbon fiber, glass fiber, titanal
Base
sintered UHMWPE
Available sizes
161, 169, 177, 185
Made in
Tunisia
Price
729 €
Status
restyling
Declared specsMeasured by us
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177 cm
Length
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129 cm
Tip width
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118 cm
Tail width
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92 cm
Waist width
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Edge contact
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Camber
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Tip rocker
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Tail rocker
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1.560 g
Individual weight
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Left weight
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Right weight
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15,5 m
Sidecut radius
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Load-bearing surface
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Tip torsion
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Center torsion
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Tail torsion
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