Moment Skis durability

Some of you asked me to post a review on what I thought of my new Team Jibs and here's my first day experience on them.

My first run on them was solid, they survived, no cracks, no breaking. So then the whole rest of the day I just skied them like I would my old skis, and they're awesome. I'm extremely stoked Moment replaced my broken Reno Jibs with these. They were super light which made doing switch ups and spins on and off rails a lot easier. Also the added stiffness to them made them super solid on backseat landings and big disasters onto rails. My home mountain has only one very small jump maybe 10-15ft so I spent the whole day jibbing on them for the most part. However the few hits on the jump I took they were really poppy, and again the lightness of them made spinning really effortless and floaty. A lot of people say the normal jibs are really crappy for all mountain, and they should just stay in the park. I feel like the added stiffness to the Team jibs eliminates that complaint because these things carve super easy, and they have excellent bases for flying down the trail. Overall, these skis are defintiely the best I've been on and I would highly recommend them to someone who wants a sick jib ski that can stay solid on larger features and hard landings.

plus the baskets are crap

moments are hands down the most durable ski ive owned. yeah the top sheets chip but dont all skis, this years top sheets are a lot more durable than previous years. moments bases are absolutely bomb proof and i think moment holds its pop longer than any other brand. im riding on a pair of reno jibs from 3 years ago and they are still going strong. one thing i dont really like about moment is the design of the ski, but i think that is also getting better as the years go on.

What exactly are their topsheets made out of, or what is the process. I know they say its different and is supposed to be more durable but everytime I see them on the mountain they look really dull and faded with just as many topsheet chips as a normal glossy finish topsheet. Obviously its just a topsheet, but still curious.

Great. However when you know guys that have worked a super high volume ski tuning shop longer than Moment has existed and they outright warn against them, because they've seen a frequency of breakage, you're inclined to believe them. I've owned many skis less fragile, which have taken absurd amounts of abuse. Namely K2 and Head, trust me most of their skis are nearly impossible to break by regular means, they've been making skis for a long fucking time. That's speaking from years of experience and drops, crashes, all kinds of wrecks on different terrain. And personally I think an expensive ski should be ready to take rough landings from all kinds of shit landings from "airs" but that's just my opinion.

At first I thought my reno jibs were the greatest skis ever. But they aren't. I'm not saying that I don't like my skis. I still like them a lot. But I feel like there are park skis out there that are better than reno jibs.

As for durability, they sure aren't the most durable skis ever. The are fairly durable. The bases are pretty damn good too. I've slid over countless rocks and tress and I only have minor gouges. Nothing major. As for the top sheet, mine is chipped to shit, but then again I hit my skis together on the lift and shit like that. Edges, they could be better. I'm not a sure hard skier, and I'm kinda surprised how many edge cracks I have. I have 5 or 6 within an inch a part of each other on one ski, and 2 or 3 on the other ski. They haven't started to pull out yet which I'm happy about, but if I slid over an exposed rock a few more times, I'll have some nice edge rip out.

I don't think I'd buy Moment's again unless they were powder skis. Maybe the Vice's. But for next year I'm leaning more for Armada Halo's.

Interesting.  It's not as much the durability that concerns me as the FRAGILITY that I hear about.